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''Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights'', published in 2006 is both an analysis on society's views on race and sexuality and a collection of autobiographical anecdotes. Kenji Yoshino, the author, is the Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law at the NYU School of Law.〔http://www.kenjiyoshino.com/kenji_yoshino.htm〕 He wrote an article in the Yale Law Journal called ''Covering'' in 2002, but went into more extensive detail on the subject of covering using legal manifesto and poetic memoirs.〔http://www.kenjiyoshino.com/covering.htm〕 The preface of the book best tells the meaning of covering:
==An Uncovered Self== Yoshino, writing in a poetic tone, shares personal anecdotes to help frame the larger, societal issues he covers later in the book. He explores the idea and concept of a "normal" sexuality, with most conflict occurring as an adolescent and college student. His internal struggle to accept and embrace his identity inform the beginning of covering. Afterwards, when a colleague cautions him to be "a homosexual professional" instead of "a professional homosexual",〔Yoshino, Kenji, p. 17〕 Yoshino begins to reflect on the concept of muting different identities. Yoshino then introduces the concept of "covering," explaining: In the new generation, discrimination directs itself not against the entire group, but against the subset of the group that fails to assimilate to mainstream norms. This new form of discrimination targets minority cultures rather than minority persons. Outsiders are included, but only if we behave like insiders - that is, only if we cover. ... Yoshino's struggles with identity took various forms, and he writes that felt:
Yoshino's main source of activism concerns gay rights, and argues that the idea and need for assimilation is inherently damaging, using the gay concepts of assimilation and closeted behavior as ways to frame the conversation on civil rights. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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