Kimberlé Crenshaw on the state of civil rights in America, intersectionality, and the critical race theory

Kimberlé Crenshaw is an American civil rights advocate and legal scholar, well-known for her work around intersectionality and critical race theory. She is a Professor of Law at Columbia Law School and UCLA. Kimberlé is the director of the Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies at Columbia, which she founded in 2011. She is also co-founder of the African American Policy Forum. Her work has appeared in the Harvard Law Review, the National Black Law Journal, the Stanford Law Review, and many other leading publications.

In our conversation with Kimberlé, we cover: the state of civil rights in America, biases in the interaction between civil rights and the law, critical race theory and its critiques, the framework of intersectionality, her work with the African-American policy forum, the Black Lives Matter and Me Too movements, and the role technology can play in the civil rights discourse.

About and from Prof. Kimberlé Crenshaw:

• Columbia Law School: https://www.law.columbia.edu/faculty/kimberle-crenshaw
• UCLA Law: https://law.ucla.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/kimberle-w-crenshaw
• Wikipedia:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberl%C3%A9_Williams_Crenshaw
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/sandylocks
• Book Recommendations:
  • Becoming, Michelle Obama
  • Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny, Kate Manne

Assorted links:

• African American Policy Forum: http://www.aapf.org
• Intersectionality Matters Podcast: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/intersectionality-matters/id1441348908?mt=2
• The urgency of intersectionality: https://www.ted.com/talks/kimberle_crenshaw_the_urgency_of_intersectionality
• Mapping the Margins: https://www.racialequitytools.org/resourcefiles/mapping-margins.pdf
• Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1052&context=uclf
• Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement: https://www.amazon.com/Critical-Race-Theory-Writings-Movement/dp/1565842715/ref=asc_df_1565842715
• On Intersectionality: Essential Writings: https://www.amazon.com/Intersectionality-Essential-Writings-Kimberl%C3%A9-Crenshaw/dp/1620972700

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