Covering_ The Hidden Assault on American Civil Rights - Kenji Yoshino [95]
3 Margaret Thatcher covered “Margaret Thatcher’s rise from Finchley MP to Prime Minister was owed in no small part to hard work with a National Theatre voice coach who lowered her pitch by 46 Hertz to a point where it fell half-way between the range of male and female.” Brenda Maddox, “The Woman Who Cracked the BBC’s Glass Ceiling,” British Journalism Review 13, no. 2 (2002): 69.
4 Rosie O’Donnell CNN, Larry King Weekend, July 6, 2002.
5 Mary Cheney still covered David D. Kirkpatrick, “Cheney Daughter’s Political Role Disappoints Some Gay Activists,” New York Times, August 30, 2004, p. P1.
6 Issur Danielovitch Demsky Anne Taubeneck, “Would a Star by Any Other Name Shine as Bright?” Chicago Tribune, April 11, 1999, p. C1.
7 as did Joseph Levitch Lloyd Grove, “Jerry Lewis, Seriously Funny: ‘Damn Yankees’ Star Cuts the Comedy, Then Your Necktie,” Washington Post, December 11, 1996, p. D1.
8 Franklin Delano Roosevelt covered Goffman, Stigma, p. 21.
9 “get a name people could pronounce” Erlich, “A Star’s Activism.”
10 One of them has not Ibid.
11 Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur’s “I could point out to you a family whose grandfather was an English-man, whose wife was Dutch, whose son married a French woman, and whose present four sons have now four wives of different nations. He is an American, who leaving behind him all his ancient prejudices and manners, receives new ones from the new mode of life he has embraced.… Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men.” J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur (Michel Guillaume Jean de Crève-coeur), “Letter III,” Letters from an American Farmer (1782; New York: Fox, Duffield, 1904), pp. 54–55.
12 Israel Zangwill’s play “America is God’s Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and reforming!” Israel Zangwill, The Melting Pot: A Drama in Four Acts, Act I (New York: Macmillan Company, 1909), p. 33.
13 Only with the civil rights movement Rogers Brubaker, “The Return of Assimilation? Changing Perspectives on Immigration and Its Sequels in France, Germany, and the United States,” Ethnic and Racial Studies 24 (July 2001): 531–48; Nathan Glazer and Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians, and Irish of New York City (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1970), pp. 288–315.
14 Fearful that we are spinning apart Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., The Disuniting of America (Knoxville, Tenn.: Whittle Direct Books, 1991).
15 the “return of assimilation” Brubaker, “The Return of Assimilation?”
16 I follow the Romantics here Gerald N. Izenberg, Impossible Individuality: Romanticism, Revolution, and the Origins of Modern Selfhood (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992).
AN UNCOVERED SELF
1 Impatient, he quoted Marvin Bell’s line “The growth of a poet sometimes seems to me to be related to his or her becoming less and less embarrassed about more and more.” Marvin Bell, “Influences,” in Old Snow Just Melting: Essays and Interviews (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1983), p. 25.
2 Some say this commonality “[The character for sexuality] literally meant ‘color,’ referring in Buddhist philosophy to the world of visually perceptible forms toward which lower beings, including humans, experienced desire, thus hindering their progress along the path of enlightenment.” Gregory M. Pflugfelder, Cartographies of Desire: Male-Male Sexuality in Japanese Discourse, 1600–1950 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999), p. 25.
3 He urged me to get William B. Rubenstein, Cases and Materials on Sexual Orientation and the Law, 2nd ed. (St. Paul, Minn.: West Publishing Company, 1997).
4 I could see the difference Ibid., p. xxii.
5 The published paper Kenji Yoshino, “Suspect Symbols: The Literary Argument for Heightened Scrutiny for Gays,” Columbia Law Review 96 (November 1996): 1753–1834. The paper was cited in Boy Scouts of America v. Dale, 530 U.S. 640, 696 (2000) (Stevens, J., dissenting); Hernandez-Montiel v. INS, 225 F.3d 1084, 1093