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Everyone covers. To repay is to downplay a disfavored characteristic to be able to blend into the mainstream. Because all of us possess stigmatized characteristics, we all face pressure to hide inside our daily lives. Given its pervasiveness, we might experience this pressure to be a simple fact of interpersonal life. Against classic understanding, Kenji Yoshino argues that the demand to hide can pose a hidden threat to your civil privileges. Though we've come to some consensus against penalizing people for differences based on competition, sex, erotic orientation, religion, and impairment, we still regularly deny equal treatment to the people who refuse to downplay differences along these lines. Racial minorities are pressed to "take action white" by changing their brands, languages, or ethnical practices. Women are informed to "play like men" at the job. Gays are asked not to engage in open public displays of same-sex love. Within a wide-ranging evaluation, Yoshino demonstrates that American civil privileges rules has generally overlooked the menace posed by these covering needs. With passion and rigor, he implies that the work of civil privileges will not be complete until it attends to the harms of coerced conformity.
