Covering the hidden assault on our civil rights ebook

Women are told to "play like men" at work. Gays are asked not to engage in public displays of same-sex affection. The devout are instructed to minimize expressions of faith, and individuals with disabilities are urged to conceal the paraphernalia that permit them to function. Given its pervasiveness, we may experience this pressure to be a simple fact of social life. Against conventional understanding, Kenji Yoshino argues that the work of American civil rights law will not be complete until it attends to the harms of coerced conformity.

Though we have come to some consensus against penalizing people for differences based on race, sex, sexual orientation, religion, and disability, we still routinely deny equal treatment to people who refuse to downplay differences along these lines. At the same time, Yoshino is responsive to the American exasperation with identity politics, which often seems like an endless parade of groups asking for state and social solicitude.

He observes that the ubiquity of covering provides an opportunity to lift civil rights into a higher, more universal register. Since we all experience the covering demand, we can all make common cause around a new civil rights paradigm based on our desire for authenticity--a desire that brings us together rather than driving us apart.

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Tags Add tags for "Covering : the hidden assault on our civil rights". Gay lawyers -- United States -- Biography. Japanese American lawyers -- United States -- Biography. Gay rights -- United States. Civil rights -- United States. The first relates to the critique of pinkwashing, often advanced by scholars who claim to be committed to an emancipatory politics.

The second concerns. DBA Journal eBook Powered by WordPress. He observes that the ubiquity of the covering demand provides an opportunity to lift civil rights into a higher, more universal register.

Since we all experience the covering demand, we can all make common cause around a new civil rights paradigm based on our desire for authenticity — a desire that brings us together rather than driving us apart.

He follows the Romantics in his belief that if a human life is described with enough particularity, the universal will speak through it. The result is a work that combines one of the most moving memoirs written in years with a landmark manifesto on the civil rights of the future.

Seldom has a work of such careful intellectual rigor and fairness been so deeply touching. Yoshino… masterfully melds autobiography and legal scholarship, marking a move from more traditional pleas for civil equality to a case for individual autonomy in identity politics… As healing as it is polemical, this book has tremendous potential as a touchstone in the struggle for universal human dignity.

Yoshino, a law professor at Yale and a gay, Asian-American man, masterfully melds autobiography and legal scholarship in this book, marking a move from more traditional pleas for civil equality to a case for individual autonomy in identity politics. As healing as it is polemical, this book has tremendous potential as a touchstone in the struggle for universal human dignity.

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