Black law professors remain drastically underrepresented on law faculties

Evidence

I was the only black woman on the faculty at what was then called George Mason University School of Law (now Antonin Scalia Law School). It was a decade and two jobs later before I could count myself one of two. Race was a factor in my day-to-day life in a way that it had rarely been before. — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth, 22

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader literature on workplace diversity and tokenism (Kanter, etc.). — connects to: Absence of role models foreclosed imagining black women as professors.; Educated Black professionals remain tokens marked by their color; Segregated education under apartheid left black scholars virtually absent from academia
• SHARE: A personal stat worth sharing with someone in legal academia — one black woman on an entire faculty.
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Absence of role models foreclosed imagining black women as professors.; Educated Black professionals remain tokens marked by their color; Segregated education under apartheid left black scholars virtually absent from academia