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Martha L. Minow, Not Only for Myself: Identity, Politics, and the Law (New Press 1997).


Abstract: Not Only for Myself uses well-known incidents, such as the furor over the casting of Miss Saigon and the confirmation hearings of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to explain the legal issues bearing on such incendiary questions as affirmative action, segregation, racial redistricting, and “identity politics.” Recipient of The Gustavus Meyers Award for Outstanding Book on Human Rights.