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Everyone covers. To cover is to downplay a disfavored trait so as to blend into the mainstream. Because all of us possess stigmatized attributes, we all encounter pressure to cover in our daily lives. Racial minorities are pressed to “act white” by changing their names, languages, or cultural practices. Women are told to “play like men” at work. Gays are asked not to engage in public displays of same-sex affection. The devout are instructed to minimize expressions of faith, and individuals with disabilities are urged to conceal the paraphernalia that permit them to function. Given its pervasiveness, we may experience this pressure to be a simple fact of social life.
Against conventional understanding, Kenji Yoshino argues that the work of American civil rights law will not be complete until it attends to the harms of coerced conformity. Though we have come to some consensus against penalizing people for differences based on race, sex, sexual orientation, religion, and disability, we still routinely deny equal treatment to people who refuse to downplay differences along these lines.
At the same time, Yoshino is responsive to the American exasperation with identity politics, which often seems like an endless parade of groups asking for state and social solicitude. He observes that the ubiquity of covering provides an opportunity to lift civil rights into a higher, more universal register. Since we all experience the covering demand, we can all make common cause around a new civil rights paradigm based on our desire for authenticity—a desire that brings us together rather than driving us apart.
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Assimilation (Sociology), Biography, Civil rights, Gay lawyers, Gay rights, Japanese American lawyers, Identity (Psychology), Passing (Identity), Coming out (Sexual orientation), Japanese americans, Lawyers, biography, Civil rights, united states, LGBTQ biography and memoir, Stonewall Book Awards, LGBTQ law & legal, nyt:race-and-civil-rights=2016-07-10, New York Times bestseller, collection:randy_shilts_award=winnerPeople
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Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights
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Covering: The Hidden Assault on American Civil Rights
2011, Penguin Random House
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Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights
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