Covering_ The Hidden Assault on American Civil Rights - Kenji Yoshino [109]
64 A few rows behind me Brief of Amici Curiae Mary Robinson et al. in Support of Petitioners, 2003 WL 164151 (Jan. 16, 2003), Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558 (2003) (No. 02-102).
65 that no-promo-homo argument Most basically, this means “argu[ing] that progay changes in law or norms would encourage homosexuality or homosexual conduct.” William N. Eskridge Jr., “No Promo Homo: The Sedimentation of Antigay Discourse and the Channeling Effect of Judicial Review,” NYU Law Review 75 (November 2001): 1327, 1329.
66 “Since in a net I seek” Sir Thomas Wyatt: Selected Poems (New York: Routledge, 2003), p. 21.
67 In his firsthand account White writes, “Someone beside me called out ‘Gay is good,’ in imitation of the new slogan, ‘Black is beautiful,’ and we all laughed.” White, The Beautiful Room Is Empty, p. 197.
68 In 1986, the Bowers Court The Court wrote, “To claim that a right to engage in [sodomy] is ‘deeply rooted in this Nation’s history and tradition’ or ‘implicit in the concept of ordered liberty’ is, at best, facetious.” Bowers v. Hardwick, 478 U.S. 186, 194 (1986).
RACIAL COVERING
1 The Japan scholar Reischauer notes, “An unkind commentator has likened the Japanese to a school of small fish, progressing in orderly fashion in one direction until a pebble dropped into the water breaks this up and sets them off suddenly in the opposite direction, but again in orderly rows.” Edwin Reischauer and Marius B. Jansen, The Japanese Today: Change and Continuity (1977; Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995), p. 136. He also discusses the idea that “Japanese are much more likely than Westerners to operate in groups” and will often “be quite content to conform.” Ibid., p. 128.
2 “like gold to airy thinness beat” John Donne, “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning,” in The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne, ed. Charles M. Coffin (New York: Modern Library, 2001), p. 38.
3 I am large Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself,” chapter 51, Leaves of Grass (1855; New York: Bantam Books, 1983), p. 22.
4 like the Escher M. C. Escher, Verbum, in J. L. Locker, The Magic of M. C. Escher (New York: Abrams, 2000), p. 136.
5 During my college years In USA Today, for instance, one Asian man described his family as “one of those amazing Asian families that the media likes to look at” because “we all went to either Stanford or MIT.” Mark Hazard Osmun, “Asian Says Whites Are Hurt by Quotas,” USA Today, February 6, 1990, p. 2A.
6 “Here are some” Eric Liu, The Accidental Asian: Notes of a Native Speaker (New York: Random House, 1998), p. 33.
7 Liu stresses his “yellow skin” Ibid., p. 34.
8 Jean, also an Asian-American Liu admits as much, saying that he has “been described as an ‘honorary white,’ by other whites, and as a ‘banana’ by other Asians.” Ibid., p. 34.
9 She retorts that Ibid., p. 46.
10 In this class, she will begin Jean Shin, “The Asian American Closet,” Asian Law Journal 11 (May 2004): 1–29.
11 Later in the seminar Barrett, The Good Black.
12 “You are a human” Ibid., p. 24.
13 “street talk” Ibid., p. 26.
14 “get past” his race Ibid., p. 25.
15 He laughed Ibid., p. 66.
16 After graduating from Harvard Ibid., pp. 84–94.
17 With respect to appearance Ibid., p. 105.
18 Mungin also engaged Ibid., p. 41.
19 As Mungin stated Ibid., p. 6.
20 Believing his predicament Mungin v. Katten Muchin & Zavis, 941 F. Supp. 153 (1996), rev’d, 116 F.3d 1549 (D.C. Cir. 1997).
21 “I was going to have to” Barrett, The Good Black, p. 163.
22 “Times have changed” Liu, The Accidental Asian, p. 35.
23 As in the orientation context In Rogers v. American Airlines, Inc., 527 F. Supp. 229 (S.D.N.Y. 1981), a federal district court in New York found that an employer’s policy prohibiting employees from wearing cornrows did not constitute racial discrimination (see discussion pp. 131–36). In Hernandez v. New York, 500 U.S. 352 (1991), the Supreme Court held that a prosecutor’s decision to strike jurors based on their ability to speak Spanish did not violate the Equal Protection Clause. In Dimaranan v. Pomona