Words That Wound

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

• ISBN13: 9780813368566
• ISBN10: 0813368561
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-12-01
• Publisher: Westview Pr

Summary

In this important book, four prominent legal scholars from the tradition of critical race theory draw on the experience of injury form racist hate speech to develop a first amendment interpretation that recognizes such injuries.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
public Response to Racist Speech: Considering the Victim's Story	p. 17
If He Hollers Let Him Go: Regulating Racist Speech on Campus	p. 53
Epilogue	p. 87
Words That Wound: a Tort Action for Racial Insults, Epithets, and Name Calling	p. 89
Beyond Racism and Misogyny: Black Feminism and 2 Live Crew	p. 111
Epilogue: Burning Crosses and the R. A. V. Case	p. 133
Notes	p. 137
Bibliography	p. 147
About the Book and Authors	p. 153
Index	p. 155
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