Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Speaking of Race, Speaking of Sex

Hate Speech, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties

Buch

Argues that hate speech restrictions are not only dangerous, but counterproductive. Acknowledging the legitimacy of concerns that prompt speech codes and combining support for civil liberties with a concern for civil rights issues, this title demonstrates that it is difficult, to draw the line between unprotected insults and protected ideas.

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Griffin, Anthony P. / Lively, Donald E. / Strossen, Nadine

ISBN: 978-0-8147-3090-4
EAN: 9780814730904
Produktnummer: 4169928
Verlag: New York University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1996
Seitenangabe: 310 S.
Masse: H22.8 cm x B15.1 cm x D2.5 cm 430 g
Gewicht: 430

Über den Autor

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research and holder of the distinguished title of Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University. He is the author of twelve books, including several award-winning works of literary criticism as well as the memoir Colored People; The Future of the Race, co-authored with Cornel West; Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man; and Tradition and the Black Atlantic. Gates has hosted ten PBS television specials, including Looking for Lincoln and the two part series, African American Lives, upon which his book In Search of Our Roots (2009) was based. He is winner of the 2009 Ralph Lowell Award for Outstanding Contributions to Public Television and the 2010 NAACP Image Award for Non-Fiction.