Words that Wound: Critical Race Theory, Assaultive Speech, and the First Amendment

Westview Press, 1993 - Law - 160 pages

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Review: Words That Wound: Critical Race Theory, Assaultive Speech, And The First Amendment

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An important book, by four scholars from the Critical Race Studies movement, who were at the forefront of the movement to introduce civil and criminal penalties for hate speech. Some of the arguments ...

Review: Words That Wound: Critical Race Theory, Assaultive Speech, And The First Amendment

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This book contains a very good intro to critical race theory, but otherwise is so dry that I struggled to get through it.

Contents

• Introduction Charles R Lawrence III Mart J Matsuda: 1
• Critical Race Scholars Enter the First Amendment Debate: 7
• Reflections: 13
• The Victims Story: 20
• The Emerging: 26
• Narrow Application and Protection of First Amendment Values: 35
• The Meaning of Legal Protection: 47
• Regulating Racist Speech on Campus: 53
• A Case About: 59
• Racist Speech as the Functional Equivalent of Fighting Words: 66
• Which Side Are We On?: 82
• Epithets and Name Calling Richard Delgado: 89
• Beyond Racism and Misogyny Black Feminism: 111
• Representational Intersectionality and Images That Wound: 117
• Burning Crosses and the R A V Case: 133
• Bibliography: 147
• About the Rook and Authors: 153

Popular passages

Page 26 - ... with due regard to the principles embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the rights expressly set forth in Article 5 of this Convention inter alia: (a) Shall declare an offence punishable by law all dissemination of ideas based on racial superiority or hatred, incitement to racial discrimination, as well as all acts of violence or incitement to such acts against any race or group of persons of another colour or ethnic origin...‎

Page 103 - ... compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, because of such individual's race, color, religion, sex, or national origin; or (2) to limit, segregate, or classify his employees in any way which would deprive or tend to deprive any individual of employment opportunities or otherwise adversely affect his status as an employee, because of such individual's race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.‎

Page 29 - The Constitution of the United States contains provisions for the protection of individual rights, such as the right of free speech, and nothing in the Convention shall be deemed to require or to authorize legislation or other action by the United States of America incompatible with the provisions of the Constitution of the United States of America.‎

Page 62 - States; and it is assumed that the power vested in congress to enforce the article by appropriate legislation, clothes congress with power to pass all laws necessary and proper for abolishing all badges and incidents of slavery in the United States...‎

Page 26 - Shall declare an offence punishable by law all dissemination of ideas based on racial superiority or hatred, incitement to racial discrimination, as well as all acts of violence or incitement to such acts against any race or group of persons of another colour or ethnic origin, and also the provision of any assistance to racist activities, Including the financing thereof; (b) Shall declare illegal and prohibit organizations, and also organized and all other propaganda activities, which promote and...‎

Page 100 - ... possible bounds of decency, and to be regarded as atrocious, and utterly intolerable in a civilized community.‎

Page 26 - All propaganda and organizations based on ideas or theories of the superiority of one race or group of persons of one colour or ethnic origin with a view to justifying or promoting racial discrimination in any form shall be severely condemned.‎

Page 64 - Amendment's reservation of rights to the people, is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.‎

Page 29 - Convinced that any doctrine of superiority based on racial differentiation is scientifically false, morally condemnable, socially unjust and dangerous, and that there is no justification for racial discrimination, in theory or in practice, anywhere...‎

About the author

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. Kimberlč 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. Kimberlč 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. Kimberlč 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. Kimberlč Williams Crenshaw is professor of law at the University of California at Los Angeles.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Words that Wound: Critical Race Theory, Assaultive Speech, and the First Amendment; New Perspectives on Law, Culture, and Society
• Contributor: Mari j Matsuda
• Edition: 2, illustrated
• Publisher: Westview Press, 1993
• ISBN: 0813384281, 9780813384283
• Length: 160 pages
• Subjects: Law / General; Political Science / General; Social Science / Minority Studies