The hidden assault on our civil rights and has also done research on the topic in conjunction with the deloitte university leadership center for inclusion. Against that conventional understanding, kenji yoshino argues that the demand to cover can pose a hidden. And yet, only one percent of fortune 500 ceos are black. A lyrical memoir that identifies the pressure to conform as a hidden threat to our civil rights, drawing on the authors life as a gay asian american. Yoshino, who is the chief justice earl warren professor of constitutional law at new york university school of law, has authored the book covering. Kenji yoshino s covering argues that the pressure to tone down a disfavored identity to fit into the mainstream or cover is the civil rights issue of our time. In 2006, kenji yoshino further developed the concept of covering. Covering yale law school legal scholarship repository. Association based covering concerns how individuals avoid contact with other group members. Examining the effects of assimilation author kenji yoshino talks about his new book covering.
Kenji yoshino is the chief justice earl warren professor of constitutional law and director of the center for diversity, inclusion, and belonging at nyu school of law. Kenji yoshino, the author, is the chief justice earl warren professor of constitutional law at the the preface of the book best tells the meaning of covering. Jul 08, 2019 covering the hidden assault on our civil rights. Formerly, he was the guido calabresi professor of law at yale law school. Covering occurs when a lesbian both is, and says she is, a. Jan 31, 2007 covering by kenji yoshino kerry kumabe. In a stroke of brilliance, yoshino intertwines his own personal comingout story in between the pages. By kenji yoshino when i began teaching at yale law school in 1998, a friend spoke to me frankly. Notes on the management of spoiled identity, yoshino writes from his own experience as a young gay japanese american.
Yoshino, a gay first generation japanese american man and law professor, writes about the pressure for marginalized groups in the united states to cover the pressure for gay people to act straight, for people of color to act white, for women to act like men, etc. This acclaimed book by kenji yoshino is available at in several formats for your ereader. Costs of covering who you really are kenji yoshino and. Costs of covering who you really are kenji yoshino and christie smith contributor. To cover is to downplay aspects of our identity that make us different from mainstream. Covering elaborates an original, arresting account of identity and authenticity in american culture. Kenji yoshino, nyu school of law program in law and. The hidden assault on our civil rights, published in 2006 is both an analysis on societys views on race and sexuality and a collection of autobiographical anecdotes. Diversity does not mean having to choose between identity and inclusion author and academic kenji yoshino describes the difference between passing and covering, and how companies. The hidden assault on our human rights, which examines the effects on civil rights. Covering occurs when a lesbian both is, and says she is, a lesbian, but otherwise makes it easy for others to disattend her orientation. Kenji yoshino is the chief justice earl warren professor of constitutional law at nyu school of law. Kenji yoshino explores the cost of conformity at work. Covering that is consistent with personal valuesfor example, an extremely private person who chooses not to share personal information with colleaguescan also be appropriate.
Indeed, yoshino argues that enforced covering is the contemporary form of discrimination to which racial minorities and women remain the most vulnerable. Yoshino has written a book that is both treatise and memoir. Assimilation at the cost of authenticity kenji yoshinos. This balance between particular and universal defines the form of covering. The hidden assault on our civil rights random house 2006. Against that conventional understanding, kenji yoshino argues that the demand to cover can pose a hidden threat to our civil rights. His work involves constitutional law, antidiscrimination law, civil and human rights, as well as law and literature, and japanese law and society. Diversity does not mean having to choose between identity and inclusion big think. Kenji yoshino is the chief justice earl warren professor of constitutional law at new york university school of law. He taught at yale law school from 1998 to 2008, where he served as deputy dean for intellectual life 20056 and became the inaugural guido calabresi professor in. Yoshino gracefully blends theory with memoir, and the result is a deeply. The hidden assault on our civil rights by kenji yoshino.
Andrea yeh work and life is a radio program hosted by stew friedman, director of the wharton worklife integration project, on sirius xms channel 111, business radio powered by wharton. Kenji yoshino, author of this years first year reading program book, covering. Kenji yoshinos work is often moving and always clarifying. Assimilation at the cost of authenticity kenji yoshinos covering. Youll have a better chance at tenure, he said, if youre a homosexual professional than if youre a professional homosexual. Author and academic kenji yoshino describes the difference between passing and covering, and how companies will sometimes employ a myopic form of diversity inclusion that necessitates the. Pdf kenji yoshinos covering argues that the pressure to tone down a disfavored identity to fit into the mainstream or cover is the civil rights. Anthony appiah, author of the ethics of identity and laurance s.
Though we have come to some consensus against penalizing people for differences based on race, sex, sexual orientation, religion, and disability, we still routinely. Yoshino notes that covering demands, as illustrated yoshimo robertsoccur at such an intimate and daily level that they are not susceptible to legal correction. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading covering. In the book covering, kenji yoshino introduces the concept of covering. Just as in our actual dreams, magic permits us to transform into better, more beautiful creatures. The pressure to cover by kenji yoshino when i began teaching at yale law school in 1998, a friend spoke to me frankly. Introduction our nation is increasingly beset with pluralism anxiety. The hidden assault on our civil rights, kenji yoshino argues for a new way of looking at discrimination and civil rights. The hidden assault on our civil rights kindle edition by yoshino, kenji. Reservations are required and can be made by calling 215. Appearance, affiliation, advocacy, and association. The following excerpts a blend of material from the books preface and first chapter introduce the concept of. Out of the closet for six years at the time, i knew what he meant.
We hope you will join us for a lapa seminar with kenji yoshino, the chief justice earl warren professor of constitutional law at new york university school of law. When kenji yoshino and his husband were married in 2009, however, they asked the judge who officiated to include the line in. The hidden assault on our civil rights, touched on his own experiences with trying to fit in to society as well as the development of the bisexual and transgender rights movements in the opening assembly series lecture monday night. Kenji yoshino born may 1, 1969 is a legal scholar and the chief justice earl warren professor of constitutional law at new york university school of law. Mar 21, author kenji yoshino talks about his new book covering. Appearancebased covering concerns how individuals alter. Writing from a place of courage and conviction lifted from doubt and pain, author kenji yoshino emotively sheds layers of his covered self to. Kenji yoshino a legal scholar presents a memoir that documents his experiences and calls for a return to an authenticity which recognizes that the suppression of personal identity causes harm to all society. Of these three forms of assimilation, covering will probably be least familiar. We have not been able to see it as such because it has swaddled itself in the be nign language of assimilation. The visibility presumption and the case of dont ask, dont tell, 108 yale l. The hidden assault on our human rights, which examines the effects on civil rights when. Covering means the underlying identity is neither altered nor hidden, but is downplayed. To cover is to downplay aspects of our identity that make us different from mainstream society.
Covering kenji yoshino pdf new pdf download service. Diversity does not mean having to choose between identity and inclusion author and academic kenji yoshino describes the difference. Taking his cue from erving goffmans introduction of the term covering in stigma. That fear has a basis in fact, as the nation confronts new kinds of people in. I have never worked so hard, or been so happily appeti tive, as in those years. I so appreciated kenji yoshinos heart in this book. Provocative and affecting, covering challenges us to be as open with one another as yoshino is willing to be with us.
When kenji yoshino and his husband were married in 2009, however, they asked the judge who officiated to include the line in the ceremony. With a diversity and inclusion officer posted at most major companies, bias in the workplace would seem a thing of the past. A new model for inclusion, that offers a different approach to achieving inclusionone that is focused on the issue of covering yoshino. Rockefeller university professor of philosophy at princeton university. Kenji yoshino, the author, is the chief justice earl warren professor of constitutional law at the nyu school of law. August 26, 2015 legal scholar and gay asian american kenji yoshino spoke on august 24 with harvard chan school staff, students, and faculty about his research and writings that examine the ways people cover or downplay those aspects of their identities that are based on race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, and disability, in an effort to fit in and get ahead. Kenji yoshino, chief justice earl warren professor of constitutional law, wants to know why. A graduate of yale law school, where he taught from 1998 to 2008, he is the author of covering. The hidden assault on our civil rights kindle edition.
However, he was covering, making sure his disability was in the background of the interaction. Mellon foundation scholar and lecturer with the rank of professor in comparative literature and the university center for human values, and bernadette meyler, lapa fellow and. Yoshino thus contends that resistance to the covering demand in the legal and political spheres is an issue around which racial minorities, women, and gays might make common cause. Notes on the management of spoiled identity, yoshino writes from his own experience as a young gay japanese american who is also a lawyer and scholar at yale university. A gay person might refrain from bringing his same sex partner to a work function so as not to be seen as too gay. Covering is essentially a book about civil rights, its past, present, and future, and what role the law has played in this epic american struggle. Commentary from both the right1 and the left2 has expressed the fear that we are fracturing into fiefs that do not speak with each other. As the title indicates, this centers on the concept of covering, or downplaying a disfavored trait to blend in. May 10, 2019 kenji yoshino, the author, is the chief justice earl warren professor of constitutional law at the the preface of the book best tells the meaning of covering. Kenji yoshino offers his personal search for authenticity as an encouragement for everyone to think deeply about the ways in which all of us have. Kenji yoshino, the epistemic contract of bisexual erasure, 52. When i began teaching at yale law school in 1998, a friend spoke to me frankly. Covering isbn 9780375508202 pdf epub kenji yoshino ebook. Praise for covering yoshino argues convincingly in this book, part luminous, moving memoir, part cogent, levelheaded treatise, that covering is going to become more and more a civil rights issue as the nation and the nations courts struggle with an increasingly multiethnic america.