Words That Wound
Subtitle: Critical Race Theory, Assaultive Speech, and the First Amendment (New Perspectives on Law, Culture, and Society)
Contributors: Charles R. Lawrence (Editor); Richard Delgado (Editor)
Edition: Reissue edition
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: May 1, 1993
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9780813384283
Subjects: Citizenship & nationality law; Ethnography; Racism & racial discrimination; Social law; United States; Law; General; Politics / Current Events; Racism in language; USA; Minority Studies - Race Relations; Civil Procedure; Law-Civil Procedure; Political Science-General; Freedom of speech; Hate crimes; Hate speech
First sentence: This is a book about assaultive speech, about words that are used as weapons to ambush, terrorize, wound, humiliate, and degrade.