Monday, April 21, 2008
5:00 pm
Sanders Hall, 212
Kenji Yoshino, author of "Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights." Reception to follow.
Dr. Yoshino is the author of Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights. In Covering, Yoshino presents a new way of thinking about civil rights. Why do we let the pressures of society force us to "cover," to tone down an aspect of our personality so we fit in with the mainstream? Who decides what is and isn't socially acceptable? And, in a culture that often unfairly demands conformity, how can we present our authentic selves? Fusing legal manifesto with his own personal story, Yoshino throws down the gauntlet for a new paradigm of civil rights.
Kenji Yoshino is Guido Calabresi Professor of law and former Deputy Dean at Yale Law School. He was educated at Harvard, Oxford, and Yale Law School. A specialist in constitutional law, anti-discrimination law, and law and literature, he has published work in a wide variety of academic journals, including the Columbia Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Stanford Law Review, and Yale Law Journal.
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