Hamden, Conn. – Feb. 7, 2014 – Kenji Yoshino, the Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law at New York University School of Law, will discuss his book, “Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights,” at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 19, in the Grand Courtroom of the Quinnipiac University School of Law Center. A book signing will follow Yoshino’s lecture.
“Everyone covers,” Yoshino said. “To cover is to downplay a disfavored trait so as to blend into the mainstream. Because all of us possess stigmatized attributes, we all encounter pressure to cover in our daily lives. Given its pervasiveness, we may experience this pressure to be a simple fact of social life.”
