Kenji Yoshino - Covering: the Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights December 6, 2007

In 'Covering,' Kenji Yoshino fuses legal manifesto and poetic memoir to call for a redefinition of civil rights in the law and culture. Yoshino argues, drawn deeply from his personal experiences as a gay Asian American, that the demand to cover can pose a hidden threat to the civil rights and that American civil rights law has generally ignored the threat posed by these covering demands. Yoshino follows the Romantics in his belief that if a human life is described with enough particularity, the universal will speak through it.