Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia

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Presumed Incompetent Presumed Incompetent The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia Edited by Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs Yolanda Flores Niemann Carmen G. González Angela P. Harris © 2012 by the University Press of Colorado Published by Utah State University Press An imprint of University Press of Colorado 5589 Arapahoe Avenue, Suite 206C Boulder, Colorado 80303 The University Press of Colorado is a proud member of The Association of American University Presses. The University Press of Colorado is a cooperative publishing enterprise supported, in part, by Adams State College, Colorado State University, Fort Lewis College, Metropolitan State College of Denver, Regis University, University of Colorado, University of Northern Colorado, Utah State University, and Western State College of Colorado. All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Cover art: Color Block Face by Bernadette Elszy-Perez ISBN 978-0-87421-869-5 (paper) ISBN 978-0-87421-870-1 (e-book) “Where’s the Violence? The Promise and Perils of Teaching Women of color Studies,” by Grace Chang, reprinted from Black Women, Gender, Families. Copyright 2007 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. Used with permission of the author and the University of Illinois Press. “The Making of a Token: A Case Study of Stereotype Threat, Stigma, Racism, and Tokenism in Academe ,” by Yolanda Flores Niemann, reprinted from Chicana Leadership: The Frontiers Reader, edited by Yolanda Flores Niemann, with Susan H. Armitage, Patricia Hart, and Karen Weathermoon. Copyright 2002 by Frontiers Editing Inc. Used with permission of the University of Nebraska Press. An earlier version of the essay now titled “African American Women in the Academy: Quelling the Myth of Presumed Incompetence,” which subsequently was revised, appeared in Dilemmas of Black Faculty at US Predominantly White Institutions in the United States: Issues in the Post-Multicultural Era, edited by Sharon E. Moore, Rudolph Alexander Jr., and Anthony J. Lemelle Jr. Copyright 2010 by Edwin Mellen Press. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Presumed incompetent : the intersections of race and class for women in academia / edited by Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs ... [et al.]. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-87421-869-5 (pbk.) -- ISBN 978-0-87421-870-1 (e-book) 1. Women college teachers. 2. Women college teachers—Social conditions. 3. Minority college teachers . 4. Women in higher education. 5. Sex discrimination in higher education. 6. Feminism and higher education. I. Gutiérrez y Muhs, Gabriella LB2332.3.P74 2012 378.1’2--dc23 2012022578 ...