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Franchesca Ramsey on “What Happens When You’re a Black Girl on the Internet”
Franchesca Ramsey is the creator and featured performer in the short video “Sh*t White Girls Say…to Black Girls” (itself a spoof on the viral”Sh*it Girls Say…” video). Ms. Ramsey has her own blog (here) and a You Tube channel (here). In … Continue reading
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“From Cleopatra Jones to First Lady Michelle Obama: Exploring Feminism in Film & Media”
The 14th Annual Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival will take place this coming weekend in Brooklyn, New York. Here’s an overview: Reel Sisters Film Festival will screen more than 25 films directed, produced or written by women of … Continue reading
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“Open Letter from Black Women to the SlutWalk”
Black Women’s Blueprint has posted to Facebook (here) and its blog (here) this “Open Letter from Black Women to the SlutWalk”: We the undersigned women of African descent and anti-violence advocates, activists, scholars, organizational and spiritual leaders wish to address … Continue reading
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Their Eyes Were Watching God as a “Legal” Novel
The discussion on Dee Perry’s Around Noon [on September 19, 2011] was Zora Neal Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God. You can hear all of the show at the link above. The book is a timeless classic that, in broad brush summary, is … Continue reading
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Redheads Need Not Apply
Cryos in Denmark claims (here) to have “the world’s largest selection of sperm donors.” According to this report in the (UK) Telegraph, Cryos no longer accepts donations from redheaded sperm donors. “There are too many redheads in relation to demand,” … Continue reading
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Dangerous Random Stereotypes of Presumed Difference and Sameness
Can people really not see that it might be racist to assert “free choice” to avoid sitting next to a black person on a public bus who, besides skin color, is much like the other riders, but it might not … Continue reading
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Hollywood, Historical Accuracy and the Civil Rights Era
Writer Martha Southgate reviews the novel-now-movie The Help for EW.com. Here is an excerpt: Implicit in The Help and a number of other popular works that deal with the civil rights era is the notion that a white character is … Continue reading
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“Arab and Arab American Feminisms: Gender, Violence, and Belonging”
Overview here, below is an except: Arab and Arab American Feminisms, edited by Rabab Abdulhadi, Evelyn Alsultany, and Nadine Naber, is a book I wish every feminist/womanist would pick up. Though it is mostly academic in nature, the book is … Continue reading
“Sister Law Professor”
Check out “Sister Law Professor” here at Sister Scholar. Below is an excerpt: During our first class we explored how we had been taught law. We learned about Langdell’s “case-dialogue” method and the school of thought that coincides with it: … Continue reading
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Ralph Richard Banks Asks “Is Marriage for White People?”
Ralph Richard Banks (Stanford) has a book coming out on September 1, 2011. Here is a review from Kirkus of Is Marriage for White People? How the African American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone: In his debut (Law/Stanford Law School), Banks explores … Continue reading
Correlation is not Causation
Why, why, why do people continue to ignore this simple rule–including people who presumably know better but who invoke a correlation as a lazy rhetorical device? In The Atlantic this month, neuroscientist David Eagleman writes about biological bases for criminal … Continue reading
Harriet Beecher Stowe, the Real Woman Behind the Unreal Man (Or: Truth and Death)
This from the Op-ed section of [June 14th]’s New York Times: The novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe, born 200 years ago today, was an unlikely fomenter of wars. Diminutive and dreamy-eyed, she was a harried housewife with six children, who suffered from … Continue reading
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“A Girl Like Me”
Watch the video here. Per the link: Color is more than skin deep for young African-American women struggling to define themselves. For more information about this film and to take action visit: http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/6/a_girl_like_me/index.php?fs=action
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Schwarzenegger, Strauss-Kahn, and Why Isn’t Anyone Talking About Race?
Former IMF head Dominique Strass-Kahn has been indicted in connection with an alleged sexual assault of a female member of the housekeeping staff at the Sofitel hotel in New York. See, e.g., here. Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has admitted … Continue reading
Aura Bogado on “Slutwalk”
Here. She raises some issues that need to be thought through. ETA: Links to additional critiques of Slutwalks here.
Posted in Coerced Sex, Feminism and Law, Race and Racism, Sex Trafficking
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Film About Loving v. Virginia at Tribeca Film Festival
The Tribeca Film festival begins next week. Included in the film line-up is Loving Story, a documentary about Mildred and Richard Loving. Here is the film description: Loving v. Virginia was a watershed civil rights case in which the United … Continue reading
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Janell Hobson on Hip-Hop Feminism
Over at the Ms. Magazine blog, Janell Hobson (Women’s Studies, SUNY) writes Can’t Stop the Women of Hip-Hop: [N]ow that mainstream hip-hop has become corporate, such women have been mostly silenced (most infamously when Sarah Jones was fined in 2001 by the FCC … Continue reading
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Gender, Race and Power in the Legal Academy (Or, the BAU Haus Rules)
In recent days news circulated regarding an incident at Widener University’s school of law. It seems that a faculty member was called to task for repeatedly offering hypotheticals about killing the dean in the context of teaching his criminal law class. The … Continue reading
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Harassment in the Intersection: Gender, Race, and Class in the Street
When people talk about “street harassment,” they are usually talking about a man harassing a woman he doesn’t know in a public place. They are usually talking about a man doing things like whistling, cat-calling, or offering crude commentary about … Continue reading
Gender Justice and Indian Sovereignty: Native American Women and the Law
It is my pleasure to invite you to Thomas Jefferson School of Law’s upcoming 10th Anniversary Women and the Law Conference, “Gender Justice and Indian Sovereignty: Native American Women and the Law,” on Friday, February 18, 2011. This one-day conference … Continue reading
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Siobhan Brooks, Unequal Desires: Race and Erotic Capital in the Stripping Industry
In this morning’s panel at the “After Gender” Symposium, Adrienne Davis (Wash. U. St. Louis) mentioned an interesting new book — Siobhan Brooks, Unequal Desires: Race and Erotic Capital in the Stripping Industry (SUNY Press 2010). Here is the description … Continue reading
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Racialized Blame: What Virginia Thomas and Anita Hill Have to Do With It
Writing in the November 15, 2010 edition of The Nation, Professor Melissa Harris-Perry (Princeton) reacts to the news that Virginia Thomas, wife of United States Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, called Professor Anita Hill and asked Professor Hill to apologize: … Continue reading
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Halloween Costumes that Rely on Racism and Stereotypes
Ann and others previously have offered trenchant criticism of “sexy” Halloween costumes for young girls and women. See, e.g., here and here. Yesterday over at Color Lines, Jorge Rivas offered thoughts on”Seven Racist Costumes to Avoid this Halloween.” His list of costumes … Continue reading
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Welfare Cheese, the Working Class and the Tenure Class (or, the Cheese Stands Alone)
I attended the Third National People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference a few weeks ago. It was a wonderful event; it was well-organized and intellectually stimulating and offered a broad array of presentations. The National POC is an event that … Continue reading
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Festschrift 2.0: Ms. Magazine Blog Celebrates bell hooks
The Ms. Magazine blog is in the middle of bell hooks week, “a series of essays celebrating the life and works of the extraordinary bell hooks. hooks has made a significant impact on feminism, race theory, education, class politics, the … Continue reading
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On Racism and Sexism in the Case of Shirley Sherrod
Janell Hobson writes here at the Ms. Magazine blog about the attacks on and defenses of Shirley Sherrod. Hobson writes that the ”conversations unfolded the way they did because a black woman was at the center.” Hobson aptly critiques both the … Continue reading
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“Renaissance Male” Teleconference June 29, 2010: “Rage, Race and Redemption”
This announcement, courtesy of Jewel Woods, Executive Director of the Renaissance Male Project Inc., “a midwest multi-cultural & multi-issue progressive men’s organization”: JUNE BROWN BAG AUDIO TELECONFERENCE Next Tuesday, June 29th Rage, Race & Redemption: Engaging The Emotional Lives Of … Continue reading
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Inniss on History of U.S. Slave Trade
The New York Times published Lolita Buckner Inniss’s letter to the editor in response to Henry Louis Gates’s April 23, 2010 op-ed, “Ending the Slavery Blame-Game.” Professor Inniss writes: To the Editor: As Prof. Henry Louis Gates Jr. points out, … Continue reading
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Cooper on “When Machismo Meets Post-Racialism: The Gates Controversy”
Frank Rudy Cooper (Suffolk) has posted to SSRN his working paper, “When Machismo Meets Post-Racialism: The Gates Controversy.” Here is the abstract: On Thursday, July 16, 2009, white male police officer James Crowley was called to the home of … Continue reading
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The Examined Life at Age 8 or 98: Dorothy Height Rest in Peace
The New York Times reported today that Dorothy Height, Activist, Educator, Civil Rights Leader, and quintessential black feminist, has died at the age of 98. You can read the NYT obituary of Dorothy Height here. Miss Height (and she was … Continue reading
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Kimberle Crenshaw at Thomas Jefferson Law School Women and Law Conference
I’d like to invite readers to attend the 2010 Women and the Law Conference at Thomas Jefferson School of Law. This event, our Tenth Annual Women and Law conference, will examine the past, present and future of intersectionality. Speakers will discuss … Continue reading
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Latoya Peterson originally wanted to title the post: “All The Women Are Still White, All The Blacks Are Still Men, But Some Of Us Are Tired of Being Brave and Want to Kick Someone’s Ass.”
Read it here. Peterson co-authored it with Thea Lim and there is a lot there to think about, that really needs to be thought about. –Ann Bartow
Posted in Feminism and the Workplace, Race and Racism, Sociolinguistics, Women and Economics
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What is Race, Anyway?
Before I begin, let me announce in advance: even as a progressive, Race and the Law teaching, feminist black woman, I DO have a sense of humor about race, gender and other matters of identity. Really. I’ve even … Continue reading
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What Is Race, Anyway?
The Root is hosting a slide show (here) entitled,”The Blackest White Folks We Know.” Here’s the lede: Race relations have gotten a little crazy lately. An all-white basketball league? Seriously? Then there’s Rod Blagojevich, declaring that he’s”blacker than Obama.”The … Continue reading
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The Courage of Her Evictions (Or, Working on a Night Move)
A recent New York Times article on eviction and low-income black women offered the following: “New research is showing that eviction is a particular burden on low-income black women, often single mothers, who have an easier time renting apartments than … Continue reading
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Jennifer Baszile’s”The Black Girl Next Door”
Historiann has a review here. Interview with Jennifer Baszile (including readings from the book) here: –Ann Bartow
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Disney’s ‘The Princess and the Frog’: Ain’t Nothing Going on but the Rent (or, That Old Black Magic)
Over the recent holidays I went with my family to see the Disney filmThe Princess and the Frog. As many of you know, it features a character who has been billed as Disney’s “first black princess,” Tiana. My whole household … Continue reading
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When Invisible, Addicted and Ill Women Disappear: A Cry for Cleveland
I grew up 2-1/2 miles from the place in Cleveland, Ohio where the police found the decomposing bodies of 11 women. The victims whose bodies have been identified so far are Nancy Cobbs, Tishana Culver, Telacia Fortson and Tonia Carmichael. … Continue reading
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Pruitt on Latina/os, Locality, and the Law in the Rural South
Feminist Law Prof Lisa Pruitt (UC Davis) has published her essay Latina/os, Locality, and Law in the Rural South, at 12 Harv. Latino L. Rev. 135-169 (2009). Here is the abstract: In this era of municipal anti-immigrant ordinances and federal-local … Continue reading
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A U.S. District Judge ruled that school officials in Dillon County, South Carolina had acted reasonably in compelling a teenage student to not wear clothing with images of the Confederate flag.
From here: U.S. District Court Judge Terry Wooten has decided in favor of Dillon School District 3 in Latta in a 2006 lawsuit involving clothing bearing the Confederate flag, Superintendent Dr. John Kirby said. On March 30, 2006, the Southern … Continue reading
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“The study found that women were far more likely to suffer minimum wage violations than men, with the highest prevalence among women who were illegal immigrants. Among American-born workers, African-Americans had a violation rate nearly triple that for whites.”
Those are two utterly unsurprising sentences from this depressing NYT article about how often low wage workers are cheated by their employers. –Ann Bartow
Posted in Feminism and Economics, Feminism and Law, Race and Racism, The Overrepresentation of Women, Women and Economics
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In Which the NYT Notices the Politics of Black Women’s Hair
It’s news at the NY Times this week, even if it’s not news to those who have been living these conversations for generations. In “Black Hair: Still Tangled in Politics,” reporter Catherine Saint Louis frames the discussion this way: “For … Continue reading
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Masculine, Feminine, or Human? (or Private Parts)
In a previous blog I wrote about horsey feminism and concern with a female horse winning a major horse race. (see Bully for You, Filly For Me). In that entry I discussed the disquieting effect of anthropomorphism that brings biology-as-social-destiny … Continue reading
Two Wrongs Don’t Make it Right: Court of Appeals of Mississippi Drags Feet on Recognizing Combined Race-Gender Groups as Groups Deserving Discrete Protection Under Batson
In Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S.79 (1986), the Supreme Court declared that racial discrimination through the use of peremptory challenges is prohibited. In J.E.B. v. Alabama ex rel. T.B., 511 U.S. 127 (1994), the Court found that gender discrimination through … Continue reading
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Marie Claire magazine is featuring an article entitled “The New Trophy Wives: Asian Women”
Written by a woman named Ying Chu and accessible online here, the theme of the piece is reflected in its final sentence: “Asian women dating white men may never really know if it’s a fetish thing.” There are a lot … Continue reading
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Frank Rudy Cooper, “Race and Essentialism in Gloria Steinem”
The abstract: This short essay was solicited for the 20th Anniversary Critical Race Theory Workshop in 2009. It celebrates Angela Harris’s trail blazing essay, Race and Essentialism in Feminist Legal Theory. Harris argues against essentialism, which is the idea that … Continue reading
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God Wears a Toga in My Dreams
What is it about fashion designers and bondage? The ad campaign for “Elohim by Sabrina Goh” is both incomprehensible and entirely familiar (women in chains, bound legs, etc.). According to her website, Goh is a self-described “Malaysian born, Singapore based … Continue reading
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Maybe Lucia Whalen should also get a beer?
Caller in Gates Case Says She Didn’t Mention Race By KATIE ZEZIMA CAMBRIDGE, Mass. : Lucia Whalen, whose 911 call led to the arrest of the Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. at his home, made her first public comments … Continue reading
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Frank Rudy Cooper on “Race and Essentialism in Gloria Steinem”
Feminist Law Prof Frank Rudy Cooper (Suffolk) has posted to SSRN his essay, “Race and Essentialism in Gloria Steinem.” Here is the abstract: This short essay was solicited for the 20th Anniversary Critical Race Theory Workshop in 2009. It celebrates … Continue reading
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“Making Space for Indigenous Feminism”
I stumbled upon Making Space for Indigenous Feminism, a 2007 book edited by Professor Joyce Green (Political Science, University of Regina). It is a collection of essays by Indigenous women from Canada, the USA, Sapmi (Samiland), and Aotearoa/New Zealand. In … Continue reading
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