In this remarkable and elegant work, acclaimed Yale Law School professor Kenji Yoshino fuses legal manifesto and poetic memoir to call for a redefinition of civil rights in our law and culture. 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. Given its pervasiveness, we may experience this pressure to be a simple fact of social life. Against conventional understanding, Kenji Yoshino argues that the demand to cover can pose a hidden...
In this remarkable and elegant work, acclaimed Yale Law School professor Kenji Yoshino fuses legal manifesto and poetic memoir to call for a redefinit...
"Fascinating....Loaded with perceptive and provocative comments on Shakespeare's plots, characters, and contemporary analogs." --Justice John Paul Stevens, Supreme Court of the United States
"Kenji Yoshino is the face and the voice of the new civil rights." --Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickled and Dimed
A Thousand Times More Fair is a highly inventive and provocative exploration of ethics and the law that uses the plays of William Shakespeare as a prism through which to view the nature of justice in our contemporary lives. Celebrated law professor...
"Fascinating....Loaded with perceptive and provocative comments on Shakespeare's plots, characters, and contemporary analogs." --Justice John ...
