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We’ll Come Back, Really….

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Source Summary

When explaining why Congress will have a hard time passing a fully inclusive Employment Non-Discrimination Act, Congressman Barney Frank loves to point out that: “In fact, many States in this country still have laws that protect only against sexual orientation, including New York State, which passed it a few years ago with the strong support of many of the people who now tell us that Congress dare not do what New York did. How people think we are going to get more votes, we are going to get more votes for a better bill in America than they got only in New York, I don’t understand, if they really think that the United States is a more favorable theater for these kinds of rights than New York.” One of the main contentions of the “incremental” theorists is that “we’ll come back for you after we get our protections.” Barney Frank

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Interpretive context

Why this article may matter

Community significance

“We’ll Come Back, Really….” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to law and civil rights, while also engaging labor, economics, and institutions. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.

Historical significance

As a publication record from 2008 at Transadvocate.com, “We’ll Come Back, Really….” provides dated evidence of how law and civil rights was being argued in relation to labor, economics, and institutions. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.

Policy significance

The article’s strongest policy connection is civil rights and anti-discrimination and elections and democratic governance. It links that institutional frame to law and civil rights and labor, economics, and institutions, making it potentially useful for tracing how an argument moves from description or history into law, regulation, administration, or public practice.

Content analysis

Ranked themes and framings

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Themes

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Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
100%
2
Labor, economics, and institutionsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
38%
3
Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
19%
4
Public policy and governanceTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
9%

Academic framing

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Interpretive analysis
100%

Policy framing

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Civil rights and anti-discrimination
100%
2
Elections and democratic governance
38%

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Granular comparative context

How “Law and civil rights” appears across the Collective corpus

This article appeared 5 year(s) before the theme reached its highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.

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5 2004

13 2005

6 2006

43 2007

38 2008

23 2009

6 2010

106 2011

45 2012

125 2013

61 2014

21 2015

13 2016

15 2017

22 2018

6 2019

1 2021

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Marti Abernathey

369 publications · 249 inbound sources/citations