On 'Whites Only' Signs and Racist Hate Speech: Verbal Acts of Racial Discrimination

In Mary Kate McGowan Ishani Maitra (ed.), Speech and harm: Controversies over Free Speech. Oxford University Press. pp. 121-147 (2012)
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This paper argues that racist speech in public places ought to be regulable even with teh strict free speech protections of the First Amendment. McGowan argues that the same justification for regulating the hanging of a 'Whites Only' sign applies to racist utterances in public spaces

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