{"id":68813,"date":"2016-05-11T10:22:27","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T15:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=68813"},"modified":"2016-05-11T16:38:40","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T21:38:40","slug":"black-lawyers-are-likely-to-face-harsher-scrutiny-than-their-white-counterparts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2016\/05\/11\/black-lawyers-are-likely-to-face-harsher-scrutiny-than-their-white-counterparts\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Lawyers Are Likely to Face Harsher Scrutiny than Their White Counterparts"},"content":{"rendered":"

At Vox,<\/em> Evan Soltas discusses<\/a> new research from Nextoins<\/em> showing racial bias in the legal profession<\/a>. They put together\u00a0a hypothetical\u00a0lawyer’s research memo that had 22 errors of various kinds and distributed it to 60 partners in law firms who were asked to evaluate it as an example of the “writing competencies of young attorneys.” Some were told that the writer was black, others white.<\/p>\n

Fifty-three sent back evaluations. They were on alert for mistakes, but those who\u00a0believed the\u00a0research memo was written by a white lawyer found fewer errors than those who thought they were reading a black lawyer’s writing. And they gave the white writer an overall higher grade on the report. (The partner’s race and gender didn’t effect the results, though women on average found more errors and gave more feedback.)<\/p>\n

Illustration via Vox:<\/p>\n

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At Nextion, they collected typical comments:<\/p>\n

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This is just one more piece of evidence that the deck is stacked against black professionals. The old saying is that minorities and women have to work twice as hard for half the credit. This data\u00a0suggests that there’s something to it.<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At Vox, Evan Soltas discusses new research from Nextoins showing racial bias in the legal profession. They put together\u00a0a hypothetical\u00a0lawyer’s research memo that had 22 errors of various kinds and distributed it to 60 partners in law firms who were asked to evaluate it as an example of the “writing competencies of young attorneys.” Some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":68879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2056,283,285,1760,20063,1757,37,76],"class_list":["post-68813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crimelaw","tag-prejudicediscrimination","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-blacksafricans","tag-raceethnicity-prejudicediscrimination","tag-raceethnicity-whiteseuropeans","tag-social-psychology","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2016\/05\/4-2.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68816,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68813\/revisions\/68816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}