Kimberlé Crenshaw
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| Born | Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw May 5, 1959 Canton, Ohio, U.S. |
| Education | Cornell University (BA) Harvard University (JD) University of Wisconsin, Madison (LLM) |
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Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw (born May 5, 1959) is an American civil rights advocate and a scholar of critical race theory. She is a professor at the UCLA School of Law and Columbia Law School, where she specializes in race and gender issues.[1]
Crenshaw is known for introducing and developing intersectionality, also known as intersectional theory, the study of how overlapping or intersecting social identities, particularly minority identities, relate to systems and structures of oppression, domination, or discrimination.[2][3] Her work further expands to include intersectional feminism, which is a sub-category related to intersectional theory. Intersectional feminism examines the overlapping systems of oppression and discrimination that women face due to their ethnicity, sexuality, and economic background.[4]
- ^ "Reunion Renews Commitment to William H. Hastie Fellowship Legacy | University of Wisconsin Law School". law.wisc.edu. Archived from the original on April 28, 2019. Retrieved March 10, 2016.
- ^ Adewunmi, Bim (April 2, 2014). "Kimberlé Crenshaw on intersectionality: 'I wanted to come up with an everyday metaphor that anyone could use'". New Statesman. Archived from the original on April 5, 2014. Retrieved March 10, 2016.
- ^ Ruparelia, Rakhi (2019) [2016]. "The Invisibility of Whiteness in the White Feminist Imagination". In Kirkland, Ewan (ed.). Shades of Whiteness. Leiden and Boston: Brill Publishers. pp. 77–89. doi:10.1163/9781848883833_008. ISBN 978-1-84888-383-3. S2CID 201575540.
- ^ Miller, Hayley (August 11, 2017). "Kimberlé Crenshaw Explains The Power Of Intersectional Feminism In 1 Minute". Huffington Post. Archived from the original on February 13, 2019. Retrieved December 16, 2017.