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Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia Hardcover – September 21, 2012
Author: Gabriella Gutierrez y Muhs ID: 0874218691

Review

“All my academic friends—white and black, gay and straight, minority and majority—are putting up images of the book on their Facebook page. They don’t say much except “I’m ordering mine” but the proliferation of this cryptic message is enough: indicating a tectonic shift. . . I’m glad there is a book out there that can tell it like it is—a book that can do the talking for those who have to remain silent. Only in this way, with one party speaking to the other, can we begin a useful dialog. I hope everybody sticks Presumed Incompetent’s image on their Facebook page. . . It will make the world a much, much better place.”
—Khan Ho, The Huffington Post

“Presumed Incompetent offers valuable lessons and advice for just about everyone in Academia, from contigent faculty, post-docs, and tenured and tenure-track faculty, to administrators and search committees. It is up to us to heed that advice if we hope to erase the dangerous and erroneous belief in academic women’s incompetence.”
—Afshan Jafar, Inside Higher Education

“This book is for people of any race or gender who want to make campus a richer, healthier, more equitable place for all.”
—Women in Higher Education

“A ‘must read’ for everyone in and outside of academia.”
— Amelia ML Montes, La Bloga

“Should be required reading for students entering graduate studies. . . Highly recommended.”
—R. Price, Choice Magazine- March 2013 Editors Pick

From the Back Cover

“This book felt so painfully familiar I almost could not read it. Those of us who started our careers as firsts and onlys have had to forget much about the cruelty hidden in academic enclaves. Forgetting, a means of surviving, buries pain and erases history, leaving us morally and intellectually flimsy. Thanks to these women for taking the harder path of truth-telling.”
—Mari Matsuda, author of Where is Your Body: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Law

“Women in academia still face obstacles built up over centuries, but the contributors to Presumed Incompetent have taken a leap toward liberation. Their revelations will enrage you — and open minds and hearts.”

—Gloria Steinem

Presumed Incompetent is undeniably a path-breaking book full of stories of resilience and survival. The editors of this magnificent collection attest to the power of storytelling and add to the testimonios of women in academia such as Telling to Live and Paths to Discovery. Each and every one of the authors survived and in telling their stories they offer hope and solace for young women scholars entering the academy.

—Norma E. Cantú

Exploding the myth that we live in a “post-identity” world, Presumed Incompetent provides gripping first-hand accounts of the ways in which women faculty of color are subjected to stereotypes, fears and fantasies based on the intersection of race, gender, and class. It reminds us that the mere passage of time is not enough to create equitable workplaces for anyone facing institutional subordination.

—Kimberlé Crenshaw

–This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Hardcover: 512 pagesPublisher: Utah State University Press; 1 edition (September 21, 2012)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0874218691ISBN-13: 978-0874218695 Product Dimensions: 7 x 1.8 x 10 inches Shipping Weight: 3 pounds Best Sellers Rank: #2,267,468 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #309 in Books > Law > Legal Theory & Systems > Gender & the Law #3779 in Books > Education & Teaching > Schools & Teaching > Education Theory > Philosophy & Social Aspects #5406 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Social Sciences > Gender Studies > General
When I was a graduate student I had an inside joke with another grad student about "the unwritable dissertation." It would be a study of the process of going to graduate school. The reason it was unwritable of course, was because it would be written by a person with less power in the institution, and have to be approved by the very people who held power over the writer. This book is the unwritable dissertation. Finally a group of incredibly brave academics have stood up and said, "Hey, let’s use the intellect we have spent so much time developing to look at our our workplace!" And they go on to do so without hesitation.

I wish I had been able to be as honest about these issues during graduate school with my faculty as the writers are here. This book is a wake up call not only for what it says about how we treat women of color in the academy. Presumed Incompetent shows how the academy is itself built upon a structure of elitism and hierarchy. From our racism, sexism and classism to the way we devalue undergraduates, exploit graduate students and adjuncts, and continue to valorize the R-1 institution, American Higher Education does more to reproduce social inequality than to address it every day.

If I have one critique of the book, it is that in some essays the goal seems to be more focused on the question of how do we make our elite club more inclusive, rather than how do we take the elitism out of our club. For instance, a couple of authors complain that they are expected to be "the nannies" of the students, to do the devalued emotion work of teaching, while their whiter or more male counterparts get to to the intellectual work.
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