Eleven. Presumptions of Incompetence, Gender Sidelining, and Women Law Deans

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Section One TENURE AND PROMOTION
7. One “Still I Rise” 11
8. Two. The Lucky Law Professor and the Eucatastrophic Moment 23
9. Three. Tenure with a Termination Letter 33
10. Four. Picked to Pieces 39
11. Five. Surviving a Difficult Tenure Process 49
12. Six. They See Us, but They Don’t Really See Us 59
13. Seven. Promotion while Pregnant and Black 73
14. Section two ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP
15. Eight. Senior Chicana Feminist Scholars 81
16. Nine. Can I Charge My Therapy to the University? 95
17. Ten. Racial Harm in a Predominantly White “Liberal” University 106
18. Eleven. Presumptions of Incompetence, Gender Sidelining, and Women Law Deans 117
19. Section Three SOCIAL CLASS
20. Twelve. Unlikely Alliances from Appalachia to East L.A. 129
21. Thirteen. Academia Is Violence 143
22. Fourteen. Silent Bias and Resisting Narratives of Deficit 153
23. Fifteen. They Don’t Call It Work for Nothing 161
24. Section Four BULLYING, WHITE FRAGILITY, AND MICROAGGRESSIONS
25. Sixteen. Making Visible the Dead Bodies in the Room 169
26. Seventeen. The Alpha Female and the Sinister Seven 180
27. Eighteen. Mindful Heresy as Praxis for Change 193
28. Nineteen. Exposure to Discrimination, Cultural Betrayal, and Intoxication as a Black Female Graduate Student Applying for Tenure-Track Faculty Positions 204
29. Twenty. Through a White Woman’s Tears 215
30. Twenty-One. And Still We Rise 223
31. Twenty-Two. Closet Chair and Committee Side Piece 233
32. Twenty-Three. In Name Only 245
33. Section Five ACTIVISM, RESISTANCE, AND PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT
34. Twenty-Four. Spectacular Bodies 257
35. Twenty-Five. Hashtag 269
36. Twenty-Six. My Tenure Denial 280
37. Twenty-Seven. In Lak’ech 290
38. Twenty-Eight. Securing Support in an Unequal Profession 300
39. Twenty-Nine. Healing Is Speaking 313
40. Thirty. The Social Ecology of Tokenism in Higher Education Institutions 325
41. Thirty-One. Why I Clap Back against Racist Trolls Who Attack Black Women Academics 332
42. Thirty-Two. Unconquered and Unconquerable 341
43. Afterword 351
44. About the Authors 355
45. Index 363