Indecent Politics: Decency and Exclusion in U.S. Political Life

• In Event: The Struggle for American Democracy: Anti-Blackness, Exclusion, and Abolition

Brief Overview

Calls for decency suggest calmer, more respectful discourse. Yet historically and legally, deployments of decency have relied on excluding people and topics deemed indecent, thereby precluding discussion of urgent political needs.

Author

• Tamar Malloy, University of Colorado Boulder