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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEthnicity Not a Factor in Hiring or Promotions of Liz Warren---Boston Globe
<snip>The question, which has hung over Warrens public life, has an answer.
In the most exhaustive review undertaken of Elizabeth Warrens professional history, the Globe found clear evidence, in documents and interviews, that her claim to Native American ethnicity was never considered by the Harvard Law faculty, which voted resoundingly to hire her, or by those who hired her to four prior positions at other law schools. At every step of her remarkable rise in the legal profession, the people responsible for hiring her saw her as a white woman.
The Globe examined hundreds of documents, many of them never before available, and reached out to all 52 of the law professors who are still living and were eligible to be in that Pound Hall room at Harvard Law School. Some are Warrens allies. Others are not. Thirty-one agreed to talk to the Globe including the law professor who was, at the time, in charge of recruiting minority faculty. Most said they were unaware of her claims to Native American heritage and all but one of the 31 said those claims were not discussed as part of her hire. One professor told the Globe he is unsure whether her heritage came up, but is certain that, if it did, it had no bearing on his vote on Warrens appointment.<snip>
https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2018/09/01/did-claiming-native-american-heritage-actually-help-elizabeth-warren-get-ahead-but-complicated/wUZZcrKKEOUv5Spnb7IO0K/story.html
Martin Eden
(12,870 posts)... or stop Hair Twitler from calling her Pocahontas.
underpants
(182,829 posts)They have to go through with the hiring policies and procedures. She was highly coveted by every academic organization. It was her pick of where to go.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)help. The GOP routinely make that insinuation, and it is bullshit.