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Civil Rights 3.0, Nan D. Hunter
Civil Rights 3.0, Nan D. Hunter
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
It is now commonplace to hear the LGBT rights movement being described as the last, or the next, or today’s, pre-eminent civil rights issue. This chapter will explore what that means from several perspectives: What does the label tell us about the civil rights paradigm itself? If the achievement of marriage equality is the great civil rights achievement of this generation, what does that suggest about a future for equality more generally? How have new forms of, and technologies for, movement building affected the idea and practice of civil rights? Does the civil rights paradigm have a future? I focus …
Love, Change, Mari J. Matsuda
Love, Change, Mari J. Matsuda
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
This is morality: to include all as human and entitled to the deepest love and care. This is the distillation of everything the author fights for as a feminist, a critical race theorist, and a peace activist. Since we are at war, having sent to date 1,500 U.S. soldiers off to die, speaking against war and for peace is a current imperative. Then comes this invitation to speak as a critical race theorist on the subject of same-sex marriage.
Without marriage you can do everything that counts in marriage except that which requires the imprint of the state. What you …