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Stories Of Teaching Race, Gender, And Class: A Narrative, Brenda V. Smith Jan 2016

Stories Of Teaching Race, Gender, And Class: A Narrative, Brenda V. Smith

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This Essay transcribes and discusses Smith's keynote speech at the New England Clinical Conference at Harvard Law School in November, 2015. Smith's speech discusses the intersection between race, gender, and class, highlighting them as sites of vulnerability through a personal storytelling lens. By sharing her individual experiences, Smith hopes to draw attention to insecurities and threats faced by many individuals who refuse to speak out.


Stories Of Teaching Race, Gender, And Class: A Narrative, Brenda V. Smith Jan 2016

Stories Of Teaching Race, Gender, And Class: A Narrative, Brenda V. Smith

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This Essay arises out of the keynote speech that I gave at the New England Clinical Conference at Harvard Law School in November 2015. The conference theme was, “Teaching Race, Gender and Class: Learning from Our Students, Communities and Each Other.” The primary planners and hosts for the conference were clinical teachers and programs in the Northeast, but participants came from around the country to talk about the importance of addressing race, gender and class in this moment of black lives mattering. They wanted to talk about the way that these issues of race, gender and class had always been …