Identity and the Case for Gay Rights
Subtitle: Race, Gender, Religion as Analogies
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: January 15, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9780226712093
Subjects: Gay & Lesbian studies; Human rights; International human rights law; Social Science; Legal Reference / Law Profession; Gay/Lesbian Nonfiction; Discrimination; Gay Studies; Social Science / Gay Studies; General; African Americans; Civil Rights; Gay rights; United States; Women's 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.