Black women2 in America3 have always been workers-as slaves, farmers, domestics, skilled and unskilled laborers, and even, in small numbers, as professionals. Their ability to find …
Introduction The American labor system has been shaped by historical White1 male domination that continues to subordinate people of color and women. The authors agree …
No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women. We are rarely recognized as a group separate and distinct from black men, or as a …
YNA Pappoe - U. Pa. JL & Soc. Change, 2019 - HeinOnline
In 1964, Congress enacted Title VII of the Civil Rights Act (" Title VII" or the" Act") to protect individuals from workplace discrimination on the basis of their race, color, sex, or national …
ML Ontiveros - Golden Gate UL Rev., 1993 - HeinOnline
Marcia Gillespie, speaking for African American women, but with words applicable for many other women of color, wrote We say, I am a Black Woman, I cannot separate my race from …
In DeGraffenreid v. General Motors Assembly Division,'a group of black female employees sued General Motors (" GM") under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, claiming that GM's …
TA Baron - University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 1994 - JSTOR
Despite women's' recent gains in fields that have been histori-cally dominated by men, the upper reaches of most professions remain disproportionately male. 2 Thus, although the …
K Crenshaw - Feminist legal theories, 2013 - api.taylorfrancis.com
I have chosen this title as a point of departure in my efforts to develop a Black feminist criticism2. because it sets forth a problematic consequence of the tendency to treat race and …
There is little doubt that sexism and ageism still exist. To remedy these" isms," there are laws to protect both women and older workers from discrimination in the workplace, namely Title …