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Stories Of Teaching Race, Gender, And Class: A Narrative, Brenda V. Smith
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.
Angry Employees: Revisiting Insubordination In Title Vii Cases, Susan Carle, Susan D. Carle
Angry Employees: Revisiting Insubordination In Title Vii Cases, Susan Carle, Susan D. Carle
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In too many Title VII cases, employees find themselves thrown out of court because they reacted angrily to reasonable perceptions of employer discrimination. In the race context, supervisors repeatedly call employees the n-word and use other racial epithets, order African American employees to perform work others in the same job classification do not have to do, and impose discipline white employees do not face for the comparable conduct. In the gender context, courts throw out plaintiffs’ cases even where supervisors engage in egregious sexual harassment. Employees who react angrily to such demeaning treatment—by cursing, shouting, refusing an order or leaving …
Stories Of Teaching Race, Gender, And Class: A Narrative, Brenda V. Smith
Stories Of Teaching Race, Gender, And Class: A Narrative, Brenda V. Smith
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
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 …