Words That Wound: A Tort Action for Racial Insults, Epithets, and Name-Calling

Authors

Richard Delgado, University of Alabama - School of LawFollow

Publication Date

1982

Abstract

One of the first articles to discuss the problem of hate speech Words That Wound discusses the harms of racist speech before proposing a new tort enabling its victims to recover damages from the utterer I later expanded the article into a book with Jean Stefancic Entitled Understanding Words That Wound the book covers a range of recent problems including hate speech on the Internet campus hate speech codes and child porn

Recommended Citation

Richard Delgado, Words That Wound: A Tort Action for Racial Insults, Epithets, and Name-Calling, 17 Harv. C. R.-C. L. L. Rev. 133 (1982).
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