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| Title | : | Speaking of Race, Speaking of Sex: Hate Speech, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.18 (999 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0814730906 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 310 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-07 |
| Language | : | English |
Other contributors write in lawyerish style but make some worthy points: dialogue, not censorship, might better lead us to racial reform; contrary to common perception, the American Civil Liberties Union devotes more resources to fighting racism than defending racists; despite radical law professors' arguments that the equality provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment should take precedence over the free speech guarantee of the First, gay and lesbian gains have relied mainly on the First Amendment. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. . From Publishers Weekly Proponents of ha
At the University of Pennsylvania, a student is reprimanded for calling a group of African-American students water buffalo. Decrying such speech regulation as overly concerned with the symbols of racism rather than its realities, Speaking of Race, Speaking of Sex offers a balanced and well-reasoned perspective on one of the most controversial issues of our time.. As debates over multiculturalism and political correctness crisscross the land, no single issue has been more of a flash point in the ongoing culture wars than hate speech codes, which seek to restrict bigoted or offensive speech and punish those who engage in it. Acknowledging the legitimacy of the concerns that prompt speech codes and combining support for civil liberties with an acute concern for civil tights issues, Speaking of Race, Speaking of Sex demonstrates that it is difficult, if not impossible, to draw the line between unprotected insults and protected ideas. Several prominent American law schools now request t
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the W. Griffin was General Counsel for the NAACP and was removed in 1993 for his representation in a first amendment case of a Grand Dragon of the Texas Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.Donald E. E. Lively is a Professor of Law at the University of Toledo.A nationally renowned speaker and debater, NADINE S
"A Challenging work" according to Mr. Patrick A. Harrington. Instinctively, most decent people don't like to see anyone singled out and denigrated unfairly. To most, it seems particularly distasteful if the denigration is on the basis of race, gender or (to many, at least) sexual orientation. Yet the authors of this book, all of whom are active in campaigns for equality as well as for civil liberties, see codes on US campuses which prohibit and punish such speech as a threat. Why?Their book examines the arguments for and against such codes and the issues that underlie them. Objections to these codes include that&nb
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