{"id":40312,"date":"2015-03-08T01:13:20","date_gmt":"2015-03-08T01:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=40312"},"modified":"2015-03-08T01:13:20","modified_gmt":"2015-03-08T01:13:20","slug":"identity-entrepreneurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=40312","title":{"rendered":"Identity Entrepreneurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2574987\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Identity Entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2015-03-05<br \/>\n87 pages<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/law.du.edu\/index.php\/profile\/nancy-leong\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Nancy Leong<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of Law<br \/>\n<em>University of Denver Sturm College of Law<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In my previous article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=22403\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Racial Capitalism<\/em><\/a>, I examined the ways in which white individuals and predominantly white institutions derive value from non-white racial identity. This process results in part from our intense social and legal preoccupation with diversity. And it results in the commodification of non-white racial identity, with negative implications for both individuals and society.<\/p>\n<p>This Article picks up where <em>Racial Capitalism<\/em> left off in three ways. As a foundation, it first expands the concept of racial capitalism to identity categories more generally, explaining that individual in-group members and predominantly in-group institutions\u2014usually individuals or institutions that are white, male, straight, wealthy, and so on\u2014can and do derive value from out-group identities.<\/p>\n<p>Second, the Article turns from the overarching system of identity capitalism to the myriad ways that individual out-group members actively participate in that system. In particular, I examine how out-group members leverage their out-group status to derive social and economic value for themselves. I call such out-group participants <em>identity entrepreneurs<\/em>. Identity entrepreneurship is neither inherently good nor inherently bad. Rather, it is a complicated phenomenon with both positive and negative consequences.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the Article considers the appropriate response to identity entrepreneurship. We should design laws and policies to maximize both individual agency and access to information for out-group members. Such reforms would protect individual choice while making clear the consequences of identity entrepreneurship both for individual identity entrepreneurs and for the out-group as a whole. A range of legal doctrines interact with and influence identity entrepreneurship, including employment discrimination under <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964#Title_VII\" target=\"_blank\">Title VII<\/a>, rights of privacy and publicity, and intellectual property. Modifying these doctrines to take account of identity entrepreneurship will further progress toward an egalitarian society in which in-group and out-group identities are valued equally.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire paper <a href=\"http:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2574987\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Identity Entrepreneurs 2015-03-05 87 pages Nancy Leong, Associate Professor of Law University of Denver Sturm College of Law In my previous article Racial Capitalism, I examined the ways in which white individuals and predominantly white institutions derive value from non-white racial identity. This process results in part from our intense social and legal preoccupation with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1467,8,20],"tags":[1959],"class_list":["post-40312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-law","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-nancy-leong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}