Words That Wound Critical Race Theory, Assaultive Speech, And The First Amendment

The authors draw on the experience of injury from racist hate speech to develop a first amendment interpretation that recognizes such injuries, demonstrating how critical race theory can be brought to bear against both conservative and liberal ideology to motivate a regulation of hate speech.



Words, like sticks and stones, can assault; they can injure; they can exclude. In this important book, four prominent legal scholars from the tradition of critical race theory draw on the experience of injury from racist hate speech to develop a first amendment interpretation that recognizes such injuries. In their critique of ?first amendment orth