Words That Wound
Critical Race Theory, Assaultive Speech, And The First Amendment| By: | Mari J Matsuda |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9780813384276 |
| eText ISBN: | 9780429982576 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 1993 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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In this book, the authors, all legal scholars from the tradition of critical race theory start from the experience of injury from racist hate speech and develop a theory of the first amendment that recognizes such injuries. 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 but racist verbal assault is not.