Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-18-2018
Publisher
Yale Law School
Language
en-US
Abstract
Women involved in the most recent wave of the #MeToo movement have rightly received praise for breaking long-held silences about harassment in the workplace. The movement, however, has also rightly received criticism for both initially ignoring the role that a woman of color played in founding the movement ten years earlier and in failing to recognize the unique forms of harassment and the heightened vulnerability to harassment that women of color frequently face in the workplace. This Essay highlights and analyzes critical points at which the contributions and experiences of women of color, particularly black women, were ignored in the moments preceding and following #MeToo’s resurgence. Ultimately, this Essay argues that the persistent racial biases reflected in the #MeToo movement illustrate precisely why sexual harassment doctrine must employ a reasonable person standard that accounts for complainants’ different intersectional and multidimensional identities.
Recommended Citation
Angela Onwuachi-Willig,
What About #UsToo?: The Invisibility of Race in the #MeToo Movement
,
in
128
Yale Law Journal Forum
105
(2018).
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https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/331
