Document Type
Working Paper
Publication Date
7-14-2012
SSRN Discipline
Legal Scholarship Network; *Humanities - Forthcoming Areas; African-American Studies; LSN Subject Matter eJournals; Constitutional Law, Jurisprudence & Legal Philosophy eJournals; Humanities Network; Political Science Network
Abstract
Reviews a book by Randall Kennedy by the above title Disputes the authors contention that nothing is inherently wrong with the word nigger and accuses the book of ignoring the terms odious history as well as the power of hate speech in general Shows how ignoring these features can play into the hands of racists both of the colorblind and the oldfashioned variety while compounding the marginalization of its victims Urges that courts pay more not less attention to the harms of hate speech
Recommended Citation
Richard Delgado,
What if Brown v. Board of Education was a Hate-Speech Case? Book Review of Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word by Randall Kennedy,
(2012).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.ua.edu/fac_working_papers/243