Words That Wound
Author | : Mari J Matsuda |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2018-03-08 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780429982576 |
ISBN-13 | : 0429982577 |
Rating | : 4/5 (577 Downloads) |
Download or read book Words That Wound written by Mari J Matsuda and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, the authors, all legal scholars from the tradition of critical race theory start from the experience of injury from racist hate speech and develop a theory of the first amendment that recognizes such injuries. In their critique of "first amendment orthodoxy", the authors argue that only a history of racism can explain why defamation, invasion of privacy and fraud are exempt from free-speech guarantees but racist verbal assault is not.