Understanding Words That Wound

by Delgado,Richard

• ISBN13: 9780813341392
• ISBN10: 0813341396
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2004-02-20
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Successor and companion volume toWords that Wound, the first book to argue for recognition of hate speech as a serious social problem. The current volume greatly expands the coverage of hate speech, including chapters on children, the Internet, recent cases, campus hate speech codes, and international responses. Deals expressly with arguments against hate-speech regulation, as well as the case for it.Written by leading critical race theorists Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, this volume succinctly explores a host of issues presented by hate speech, including legal theories for regulating it, the harms it causes, and policy arguments pro and con suppressing it. Chapters analyze hate speech on campus, the history of hate speech in America, the careers of particular words as "nigger," "spick," "wop," and "kike," hate speech against whites, and the special case of children. Particular attention is devoted to hate on the Internet, talk radio, and to the role of white supremacist groups in disseminating it. Designed to be accessible to the general public and students, this book features reading lists, exercises, and questions for discussion. This book accompanies and expands on the prize-winning volumeWords that Wound: Critical Race Theory, Assaultive Speech, and the First Amendment, also published by Westview Press.

Author Biography

Jean Stefancic is research professor of law at the University of Pittsburgh Law School and Derrick A. Bell Scholar in law.

Table of Contents

Words that wound : the harms of hate speech	p. 11
Quantitative issues : how frequent is racial vilification?	p. 21
Theories of racism and hate speech	p. 31
The strange careers of four special words	p. 47
Hate speech and children : the special case of youth	p. 93
College and university students : the case of campus hate speech (and conduct) codes	p. 111
Hate in cyberspace	p. 123
When hate goes tangible : logos, mascots, confederate flags, and monuments	p. 141
Lawyer discipline : when the system sets out to purge hate	p. 151
Talk shows : hate on the airwaves	p. 159
Stretching to make a point : the case of hate speech against whites	p. 175
International and comparative perspectives	p. 195
First Amendment absolutism and fallback positions : social policy objections to hate speech remedies	p. 203
The future : First Amendment legal realism	p. 217
International treaties and documents	p. 227
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