Words That Wound: Critical Race Theory, Assaultive Speech, and the First Amendment Matsuda Mari J.Paperback
Words That Wound: Critical Race Theory, Assaultive Speech, and the First Amendment Matsuda Mari J.Paperback Words, like sticks and stones, can assault; they can injure; they can exclude. In their…
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Words That Wound: Critical Race Theory, Assaultive Speech, and the First Amendment Matsuda Mari J.Paperback
Words, like sticks and stones, can assault; they can injure; they can exclude. 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 while racist and sexist verbal assaults are not.The rising tide of verbal violence on college campuses has increased the intensity of the "hate speech" debate. 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.
The impact of feminist theory is also evident throughout. The This book demonstrates how critical race theory can be brought to bear against both conservative and liberal ideology to motivate a responsible regulation of hate speech.