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Words That Wound: Critical Race Theory, Assaultive Speech, and the First Amendment
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Cited edition: Boulder: Westview Press, 1993.
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- Title
- Words That Wound: Critical Race Theory, Assaultive Speech, and the First Amendment
- Author
- Mari J. Matsuda; Charles R. Lawrence III; Richard Delgado; Kimberlè Williams Crenshaw
- Year
- 1993
- Document type
- Book
- Source class
- 1. Primary text (the thinker’s own work)
- Standpoint
- Movement: writes from inside the tradition
- Publisher
- Westview Press
- Place
- Boulder
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assaultive speech, about words that are used as weapons to ambush, terrorize, wound, humiliate, and degrade
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Segregation and other forms of racist speech injure victims because of their dehumanizing and excluding message.
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words of response to such verbal attacks may never be forthcoming because speech is usually an inadequate response
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This is a book about assaultive speech, about words that are used as weapons to ambush, terrorize, wound, humiliate, and degrade.
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The founding critical race theory text on speech defines its subject as assaultive speech: words used as weapons to ambush, terrorize, wound, humiliate, and degrade.
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Plain English for “Violence”: Violence extended to words. If speech can assault, the institution can police it as assaul...
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In Words That Wound, Charles Lawrence holds that racist speech injures its victims through its dehumanizing and excluding message, drawing its power from the cumulative effect of similar messages.
Filed in: Decoder: Violence
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Words That Wound argues that racial insults are preemptive: because speech is an inadequate response to them, the remedy of more speech is held to be unavailable.
Filed in: Decoder: Violence
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Words That Wound announces its subject as assaultive speech: words used as weapons to ambush, terrorize, wound, humiliate, and degrade.
Filed in: Decoder: Violence
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