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Notes on the management of spoiled identity, yoshino writes from his own experience as a young gay japanese american who is also a lawyer and scholar at yale university. His work involves constitutional law, antidiscrimination law, civil and human rights, as well as law and literature. As the title indicates, this centers on the concept of covering, or downplaying a disfavored trait to blend in. Youll have a better chance at tenure, he said, if youre a homosexual professional than if youre a professional homosexual.
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