Teaching the Retrenchment Generation: When Sapphire Meets Socrates at the Intersection of Race, Gender and Authority

Authors

Pamela J. Smith, Boston College Law School

Date of this Version

October 1999

Abstract

“While many women of color have written about their experiences and the experiences of other women of color in academia, my article is different in that it looks not only at the historical barriers to entry and success, but also the current barriers to entry and success, namely retrenchment and retrenchment denial.”