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Challenged X 3: The Stories Of Women Of Color Who Teach Legal Writing, Lorraine Bannai
Challenged X 3: The Stories Of Women Of Color Who Teach Legal Writing, Lorraine Bannai
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Much of what has been written concerning the experience of women of color in the legal academy has focused on tenured or tenure-track women of color who teach doctrinal courses. I speak from a somewhat different place-as a woman of color who teaches Legal Writing and who, like most faculty who teach Legal Writing, is untenured. Of course, I nod my head with recognition as I read the stories shared by tenured or tenure-track women of color who teach 2 doctrinal courses, including challenges they face from students and colleagues. At the same time, I also know (1) that untenured …
Presumed Incompetent: Continuing The Conversation, Carmen Gonzalez, Angela P. Harris
Presumed Incompetent: Continuing The Conversation, Carmen Gonzalez, Angela P. Harris
Faculty Articles
On March 8, 2013, the Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice hosted an all-day symposium featuring more than forty speakers at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law to celebrate and invite responses to the book entitled, Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia (Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, Yolanda Flores Niemann, Carmen G. González & Angela P. Harris eds., 2012). Presumed Incompetent presents gripping first-hand accounts of the obstacles encountered by female faculty of color in the academic workplace, and provides specific recommendations to women of color, allies, and academic leaders on ways …