Words That Wound

By Mari J. Matsuda, Charles R. III Lawrence, Richard Delgado, Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

Words That Wound
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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 of injury from racist hate speech to develop a first amendment interpretation that recognizes such injuries. In their critique of ?first amendment orth