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. 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. The preface of the book best tells the meaning of covering:
"Everyone covers. To cover is to tone down a disfavored identity to fit into the main stream. In our diverse society, all of us are outside the mainstream in some way every reader of this book has covered, whether consciously or not, and sometimes at significant personal cost."
Read more about Covering: The Hidden Assault On Our Civil Rights: An Uncovered Self, Part One, Controversies and Reviews of The Book
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