The New Old Civil Rights

The New Old Civil Rights

Description

This essay first describes how legislation and doctrine create the temptation to build “like race” or “like sex” paradigms for age. It then argues that advocates should resist this temptation for both empirical and strategic reasons. It demonstrates how unmooring the age discrimination paradigm from traditional civil rights models allows us to apprehend it better by considering the distinctive fears older individuals conjure about our own mortality. Finally, it considers how such insights might be incorporated into antidiscrimination law and politics.

First Page

77

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009466004.009

Source Publication

Law and the 100-Year Life: Transforming Our Institutions for a Longer Lifespan

Source Editors/Authors

Anne L. Alstott, Abbe R. Gluck, Eugene Rusyn

Publication Date

5-13-2025

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

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