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Degradation : what the history of obscenity tells us about hate speech /
"In this original study of the relationship between obscenity and hate speech, First Amendment specialist Kevin W. Saunders traces the legal trajectory of degradation as it moved from sexual depiction to hateful speech. Looking closely at hate speech in several arenas, including racist, homopho...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
©2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "In this original study of the relationship between obscenity and hate speech, First Amendment specialist Kevin W. Saunders traces the legal trajectory of degradation as it moved from sexual depiction to hateful speech. Looking closely at hate speech in several arenas, including racist, homophobic, and sexist speech in the workplace, classroom, and other real-life scenarios, Saunders posits that if hate speech is today's conceptual equivalent of obscenity, then the body of law that dictated obscenity might shed some much-needed light on what may or may not qualify as punishable hate speech."--Book cover |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vii, 243 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780814741450 0814741452 9780814708750 0814708757 |