Journal article
Unentitled: The Power of Designation in the Legal Academy
Rutgers University law review (2014.), Vol.73(3), pp.923-932
01 Mar 2021
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Abstract
Last December, The Wall Street Journal published an op-ed that questioned whether Dr. Jill Biden should more appropriately be addressed as Madame First Lady, Mrs. Biden, Jill, or even kiddo, characterizing her desire to be called doctor as “fraudulent” and a “touch comic.” Many were understandably outraged by the lack of respect afforded to Dr. Biden, which had a distinctly gendered dimension. More recently, after a controversial decision by the University of North Carolina’s Board of Trustees to deny her tenure, Nikole Hannah-Jones, a Pulitzer Prize and MacArthur “Genius Grant” winner, was instead offered an appointment as a “Professor of Practice” on a five-year, fixed-term contract, which she ultimately declined. These high-profile examples put in sharp focus what many women of color in the legal academy already know all too well: labels have an innate power to confer or diminish status. This essay explores the role that titles play in the legal academy and, in particular, their often depreciative consequences for women of color. Drawing from my story, those relayed to me by others, and other empirical evidence, I will show how titles perpetuate stereotypes and entrench existing racial and gender hierarchies in the legal academy, although they appear race- and gender- neutral. [1st paragraph]
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- Title
- Unentitled: The Power of Designation in the Legal Academy
- Creators
- Rachel Lopez - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Rutgers University law review (2014.), Vol.73(3), pp.923-932
- Publisher
- Rutgers Univ
- Number of pages
- 10
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Thomas R. Kline School of Law
- Identifiers
- 991019170398604721
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