Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Liberties by Kenji Yoshino (Weekly Book Discussion)
Thursdays, January 17 - March 13, (Weeks 2 - 10),
12:00 – 12:50pm, Century E, EMU
To register, contact Tim McMahon, timmc@uoregon.edu
Presenters: The Bias Response Team (Office of Student Life), & Tim McMahon (CoDaC/TEP)
Yoshino, a law professor at Yale and a gay, Asian- American man, masterfully melds autobiography and legal scholarship in this book, marking a move from more traditional pleas for civil equality to a case for individual autonomy in identity politics Yoshino’s examination of “covering”thrusts the reader into a battlefield of dynamic ambiguity. Yoshino argues against hidden prejudices embedded in American civil rights legislation that tacitly apologize for “immutable” human difference rather than defending one’s “right to say what one is.” He reveals that the struggle against oppression lies not solely in fighting an imagined, monolithic state but as much in intimate discourse with the mother, the father and the colleague who constitute that state. For more information, please contact Gina at brt@uoregon.edu.
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