Words That Wound

Mari J. Matsuda and Charles R. Lawrence III are professors of law at the Georgetown University Law Center. Richard Delgado is Charles Inglis Thomson Professor of Law at the University of Colorado. Kimberle Williams Crenshaw is professor of law at the University of California at Los Angeles.

• 1 Introduction, 2 Public Response to Racist Speech: Considering the Victim’s Story, 3 If He Hollers Let Him Go: Regulating Racist Speech on Campus, 4 Words That Wound: A Tort Action for Racial Insults, Epithets, and Name Calling, 5 Beyond Racism and Misogyny: Black Feminism and 2 Live Crew, 6 Epilogue: Burning Crosses and the R A . V. Case