Professor Kenji Yoshino discusses "Covering"

Posted Apr. 4, 2006

On Thursday, Apr. 6, at 12:30 in Room 122, Yale Law Professor and author Kenji Yoshino will host a lunch reception and talk on his landmark new book, Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights. This talk is being presented by Yale ACS, The Larry Kramer Initiative at Yale, the LGBTQ Co-op, and Outlaws.

About the book:

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 that conventional understanding, Kenji Yoshino argues that the demand to cover can pose a hidden threat to our civil rights.
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.