Identity and the Case for Gay Rights
Subtitle: Race, Gender, Religion as Analogies
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: February 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9780226712086
Subjects: Gay & Lesbian studies; Human rights; International human rights law; United States; Gay/Lesbian Nonfiction; Homosexuality; Social Law; Law; Legal Reference / Law Profession; Discrimination; Discrimination & Racism; Gay Studies; Social Science / Discrimination & Race Relations; Women's rights; African Americans; Civil Rights; Gay rights
First sentence: The struggle for racial justice plays a central role in American interpretive understanding of the Reconstruction Amendments both as their background in the antebellum abolitionist movement and in the successful African American struggle, after their ratification, to rectify the crudely racist interpretation they had irresponsibly been given by the judiciary.