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The Idea of Covering

Melissa Hung - January 23, 2006

Roy writes: But Yoshino argues convincingly in this book, part luminous, moving memoir, part cogent, level-headed treatise, that covering is going to become more and more a civil rights issue as the nation (and the nation's courts) struggle with an increasingly multiethnic America. There is a weariness (and a wariness) about identity politics in a country spawning new identities every day. From a legal standpoint it has meant courts are increasingly veering toward protecting only the immutable aspects of identity.

I find this idea interesting, that when one person can't fully be him or herself 100%, that this decreases the well being and rights of everyone.

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