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Authors: Mari J Matsuda
ISBN-13: 9780813384283, ISBN-10: 0813384281
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Westview Press
Date Published: May 1993
Edition: 1st Edition

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Author Biography: Mari J Matsuda

Mari J. Matsuda and Charles R. Lawrence III are professors of law at the Georgetown University Law Center. Richard Delgado is Charles Inglis Thomson Professor of Law at the University of Colorado. Kimberlè Williams Crenshaw is professor of law at the University of California at Los Angeles. Mari J. Matsuda and Charles R. Lawrence III are professors of law at the Georgetown University Law Center. Richard Delgado is Charles Inglis Thomson Professor of Law at the University of Colorado. Kimberlè Williams Crenshaw is professor of law at the University of California at Los Angeles. Richard Delgado is the Derrick A. Bell Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of When Equality Ends (Westview Press), The Rodrigo Chronicles, and The Coming Race War? And Other Apocalyptic Tales of America After Affirmative Action and Welfare. Delgado is the winner of eight national book awards and is a frequent television and newspaper commentator on race and civil rights.Jean Stefancic is research professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh Law School and Derrick A. Bell Scholar in Law. She is the author of No Mercy: How Conservative Think Tanks and Foundations Changed America's Social Agenda, and a frequent contributor to the literature on race and civil rights. Mari J. Matsuda and Charles R. Lawrence III are professors of law at the Georgetown University Law Center. Richard Delgado is Charles Inglis Thomson Professor of Law at the University of Colorado. Kimberlè Williams Crenshaw is professor of law at the University of California at Los Angeles. Mari J. Matsuda and Charles R. Lawrence III are professors of law at the Georgetown University Law Center. Richard Delgado is Charles Inglis Thomson Professor of Law at the University of Colorado. Kimberlè Williams Crenshaw is professor of law at the University of California at Los Angeles.

Book Synopsis

"Words, like sticks and stones, can assault; they can injure; they can exclude. In this important book, four prominent legal scholars from the tradition of critical race theory draw on the experience o"

Table of Contents

1Introduction1
2Public Response to Racist Speech: Considering the Victim's Story17
3If He Hollers Let Him Go: Regulating Racist Speech on Campus53
4Words That Wound: A Tort Action for Racial Insults, Epithets, and Name Calling89
5Beyond Racism and Misogyny: Black Feminism and 2 Live Crew111
6Epilogue: Burning Crosses and the R.A.V Case133
Notes137
Bibliography147
About the Book and Authors153
Index155

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