Kimberlé Crenshaw is distinguished professor of law at UCLA, a professor of law at Columbia Law School, and a co-founder and the executive director of the African American Policy Forum. She is a co-editor (with Neil T. Gotanda, Gary Peller, and Kendall Thomas) of Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement. Crenshaw lives in New York City and Los Angeles.
Praise for Kimberlé Crenshaw's Critical Race Theory:
“As of the publication of Critical Race Theory it will be unwise,
if not impossible, to do any serious work on race without
referencing this splendid collection.”
—Toni Morrison
Praise for Kimberlé Crenshaw:
“Kimberlé Crenshaw belongs at the center of public conversation. .
. . Imagine the world we might have if we all took a few moments to
engage her ideas.”
—Melissa Harris-Perry, MSNBC
“Her name and her work [have] become an introductory point for
feminists of all stripes.”
—New Statesman
“Considering its recent prominence, it's surprising to realize that
the term [intersectionality] has been around only since 1989: It
was coined by legal scholar and critical theorist Kimberlé
Crenshaw.”
—The Washington Post
“The theorist who first coined intersectionality as a political
framework.”
—Salon
“It's now been over two decades since legal scholar Kimberlé
Crenshaw wrote her original paper coining the term
'intersectionality' and mainstream feminism is still in the throes
of a massive storm around it.”
—The Guardian
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