Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw; Volume 133; Issue 9; See full issue. Download. In the lead up to Volume 134, the Harvard Law Review republished five classic Critical Race Theory articles from our archives. This is the third piece in our series. The full version of this Article may be found by clicking on the PDF link below.Kimberlé Crenshaw, a 2017 NAIS People of Color Conference speaker, civil rights advocate, and professor at UCLA School of Law and Columbia Law School, talks ...Kimberlé Crenshaw argues that defending group rather than individual identity-politics constitutes an important political tactic: ‘At this point in history, a strong case can be made that the most critical resistance strategy for disempowered groups is to occupy and defend a politics of social location rather than to vacate and destroy it ...Nov 12, 2020 · Kimberlé Crenshaw was assisting Hill’s legal team and felt dejected and exhausted. As she left the capitol building in Washington DC that day, she saw a group of African Americans, mostly women ... Legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw first coined the term intersectionality in 1989, defining it as the way in which multiple forms of inequality or oppression (such as racism, sexism, classism, ableism, heterosexism and more) can compound and create different modes of discrimination or disadvantage. But before Crenshaw, there was a …Kimberlé W. Crenshaw, Columbia Law School Follow Andrea J. Ritchie Rachel Anspach Rachel Gilmer Luke Harris. Document Type. Report. Publication Date. 2015. Abstract. Say Her Name sheds light on Black women’s experiences of police violence in an effort to support a gender-inclusive approach to racial justice that centers all Black …With the publication, “Reach Everyone on the Planet …,”the Center for Intersectional Justice (CIJ) and the Gunda Werner Institute want to honor Kimberlé Crenshaw’s contribution not only to social justice movements but also to the lives of people located at the intersections of several axes of oppression. This book gathers texts from ...Kimberlé Crenshaw on Teaching the Truth About Race in America. A pioneering scholar of Critical Race Theory joins us to discuss the true meaning of the practice, and how it became a political flashpoint in schools and beyond. The assault on the practice and ideology known as Critical Race Theory (CRT) has been a wildly successful …Learn how Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term intersectionality in 1989 to describe how race, class, gender, and other …Black women are killed by police when they are not the main targets. Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old emergency medical technician, was killed when police mistakenly entered her home in the middle of the night on a no-knock warrant while searching for a suspect who had already been detained. India Kager, a post office worker and Navy veteran, was killed by …Critical race theorist Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, who coined the term intersectionality, talks activism with U.K. Black Pride organizer Lady Phyll. In 1989, celebrated critical race theorist and professor Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw penned the now-seminal paper for that year’s volume of the University of Chicago Legal Forum Journal.Kimberlé Crenshaw, executive director of the African American Policy Forum, speaks on a panel about threats to democracy at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s annual legislative conference, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023, in Washington.Kimberlé Crenshaw explains what is intersectionality and how it was conceived.Welcome to The Big Idea: the ideas that matter, made simple. Regular bite-sized... キンバリー・クレンショー. キンバリー・ウィリアムズ・クレンショー （Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, 1959年 - ）は、米国の 弁護士 、 人権活動家 。. カリフォルニア大学ロサンゼルス校 と コロンビア大学 それぞれの ロースクール で教鞭をとる。. Host Kimberlé Crenshaw reflects on the Mothers Network and the 8th anniversary of the #SayHerName campaign, which supports Amber, Ashley, and other mothers, sisters, aunts, and loved ones of Black women killed by police. She also reflects on the importance of using an intersectional race and gender lens as we demand police reform.Feb 22, 2021 · A mixture of one-on-one interviews and group discussions, the podcast got its start in the days after the 2016 U.S. presidential election, giving Columbia Law Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw the chance to fully explicate and illuminate the oft-misunderstood concept of intersectionality, a groundbreaking framework that shows the nature of race ... I have long admired the words and work of Kimberlé Crenshaw, and believe that intersectionality is a necessary framework for understanding and effectively addressing the deeply rooted societal ...Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw is a leading authority in the area of civil rights, black feminist legal theory, and race, racism and the law. She is widely known for her central role in the development of the idea of intersectionality. Patricia Schulz is a member of the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and ...I have long admired the words and work of Kimberlé Crenshaw, and believe that intersectionality is a necessary framework for understanding and effectively addressing the deeply rooted societal ...Download Citation | On Oct 31, 2023, Mary C. Jensen and others published Crenshaw, Kimberlé | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGateI have long admired the words and work of Kimberlé Crenshaw, and believe that intersectionality is a necessary framework for understanding and effectively addressing the deeply rooted societal ...Kimberlé Crenshaw teaches Civil Rights and other courses in critical race studies and constitutional law. Her primary scholarly interests center around race and the law, and she was a founder and has been a leader in the intellectual movement called Critical Race Theory. She was elected Professor of the Year by the 1991 and 1994 graduating ...Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw (nascida em 1959) é uma defensora dos direitos civis norte-americana. É uma das principais estudiosas da teoria crítica da raça.Ela é professora em tempo integral na Faculdade de Direito da UCLA e na Columbia Law School, onde se especializa em questões de raça e gênero. [1] Crenshaw é também fundadora do …Jan 14, 2022 · Kimberlé Crenshaw, 62, is a legal scholar who developed the notions of critical race theory and intersectionality. She is a law professor at UCLA and Columbia, where she is co-founder and ... Kimberlé W. Crenshaw, Columbia Law School Follow Andrea J. Ritchie Rachel Anspach Rachel Gilmer Luke Harris. Document Type. Report. Publication Date. 2015. Abstract. Say Her Name sheds light on Black women’s experiences of police violence in an effort to support a gender-inclusive approach to racial justice that centers all Black …Civil rights scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw, front, second from left, listens to a Yale School of Public Health student February 3 in the Dean's Conference Room at the Laboratory of Epidemiology and Public Health (LEPH). The small, private gathering followed a ceremony in Harkness Auditorium where Crenshaw was presented with the C.-E. A. …Sep 13, 2022 · NPR's A Martinez talks to Kimberle Crenshaw, who coined the term "critical race theory," about anti-racism and why she believes it must be part of American discourse. Critical race theory, or CRT ... Kimberlé Crenshaw was born in 1959, a year before the decade often seen as pivotal for both feminism and antiracism. She is a student of both movements, and she is clearly indebted to both traditions of activism and thinking. In “Mapping the Margins,” she therefore has a delicate task of balancing the acts of paying the respect due to ...On Intersectionality. : Kimberlé Crenshaw. The New Press, Mar 5, 2019 - Social Science - 320 pages. A major publishing event, the collected writings of the groundbreaking scholar who "first coined intersectionality as a political framework" (Salon) For more than twenty years, scholars, activists, educators, and lawyers—inside and …Kimberlé W. Crenshaw is a leader in the intellectual movement called Critical Race Theory and a founder of the Promise Institute Chair in Human Rights. She teaches Civil Rights …Kimberlé Crenshaw, the founder of the term intersectionality, brought national and scholarly credential to the term through the paper Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics in The University of Chicago Legal Forum. In the …"Race Today: A Symposium on Race in America" brought a group of the nation’s most respected intellectuals on race, racial theory and racial inequality togeth...ABSTRACT. This article examines Kimberlé Crenshaw’s interview on Democracy Now! in 2015 and her 2016 TEDTalk, “The Urgency of Intersectionality,” to theorize Black women’s “activist rhetoric of blame.” Crenshaw enacts three distinctive features of Black feminist pedagogy in her activism for the #SayHerName Campaign.In Race, Reform, and Retrenchment, Professor Crenshaw posited three ideas about race and law that became central to the emerging project of Critical Race Theory: “the most valuable political asset of the Black community has been its ability to assert a collective identity and to name its collective political reality.”. Race is the …Activist and law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw urges us to ask this question. Through her theory of intersectionality, she explains the overwhelming underrepresentation of violence against African-American women in activism, politics and media. “The problem is, in part, a framing problem,” Crenshaw says. “Without frames that are capacious ...Kimberlé Crenshaw, Legal scholar and civil rights advocate on maintaining the pressure and holding on to hope. Whenever there’s forward momentum in social justice, anti-racism or feminism, you ...Kimberlé Crenshaw is a Black feminist legal scholar and host of the award-winning podcast "Intersectionality Matters with Kimberlé Crenshaw. She is the co-founder and Executive Director of the African American Policy Forum. Read more Read less You're getting a free audiobook. $14.95 per month after 30 days. ...Kimberlé Crenshaw is tucked in her UCLA office with ceiling-high shelves. Behind her, two men enter the frame of our video call and bend and lift, packing stacks of books.Activist and law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw urges us to ask this question. Through her theory of intersectionality, she explains the overwhelming underrepresentation of violence against African-American women in activism, politics and media. “The problem is, in part, a framing problem,” Crenshaw says. “Without frames that are capacious ...Crenshaw, Kimberlé. "Demarginalizing the intersection of race and sex: A black feminist critique of antidiscrimination doctrine, feminist theory and antiracist politics." u. Chi. Legal f. (1989): 139. Support the author. Visit and/or donate to the African American Policy Forum, which was co-founded by Kimberlé Crenshaw.Crenshaw, Kimberlé W., "On Intersectionality: Essential Writings" (2017). Faculty Books. 255. For more than twenty years, scholars, activists, educators, and lawyers – inside and outside of the United …Kimberlé Crenshaw, the report’s lead author, underscored the need to address the specific challenges facing Black girls. ... When Black Girls Matter was first published, researchers and advocates faced what Crenshaw called a “knowledge desert,” and not much was known about how discipline disparities affected the school and life outcomes ...Among the content considered “divisive” is Critical Race Theory (CRT). In response, the African American Policy Forum, led by legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw, launched the #TruthBeTold campaign to expose the harm that the order poses. Reports indicate that over 300 diversity and inclusion trainings have been canceled as a result of …Kimberlé Crenshaw explains how race and gender bias can combine to create more harm for people who face multiple forms of exclusion. She urges us to bear witness to this …Kimberle Crenshaw dialoga nesta palestra TED filmada em outubro de 2016, sobre a necessidade de pensar nas diferentes opressões a que estão sujeitos alguns i...Jul 18, 2023 · Kimberlé Crenshaw, Professor of Law at UCLA and Columbia Law School, is a leading authority in the area of Civil Rights, Black feminist legal theory, and race, racism, and the law. Her work has been foundational in two fields of study that have come to be known by terms that she coined: Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality. Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw (lahir 5 Mei 1959) adalah seorang advokat hak-hak sipil asal Amerika Serikat dan cendekiawan terkemuka dalam teori ras kritis. Ia adalah seorang …Black women are killed by police when they are not the main targets. Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old emergency medical technician, was killed when police mistakenly entered her home in the middle of the night on a no-knock warrant while searching for a suspect who had already been detained. India Kager, a post office worker and Navy veteran, was killed by …Women's and Gender studies major Sara Hayet ’18 interviews Kimberlé Crenshaw about "Intersectional Feminism." Crenshaw served as the keynote speaker on Sept...Kimberlé Crenshaw is the co-founder and Executive Director of the African American Policy Forum, a gender and racial justice legal think tank, and the founder and Executive Director of the Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies at Columbia Law School.Kimberlé Crenshaw (also writes as Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw) is a professor of law at UCLA and Columbia Law School. A leading authority on civil rights, black feminist legal theory, and racism and the law, she is a co-editor of Critical Race Theory (The New Press). Crenshaw is a contributor to Ms. Magazine, The Nation, and the Huffington …Jun 15, 2020 · I have long admired the words and work of Kimberlé Crenshaw, and believe that intersectionality is a necessary framework for understanding and effectively addressing the deeply rooted societal ... Jul 18, 2023 · Failure to teach their stories in schools. In Kimberlé Crenshaw’s new book #SayHerName: Black Women’s Stories of State Violence and Public Silence, out today, the UCLA and Columbia University ... Among the content considered “divisive” is Critical Race Theory (CRT). In response, the African American Policy Forum, led by legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw, launched the #TruthBeTold campaign to expose the harm that the order poses. Reports indicate that over 300 diversity and inclusion trainings have been canceled as a result of …Feb 20, 2020 · February 20, 2020 7:27 AM EST. K imberlé Crenshaw, the law professor at Columbia and UCLA who coined the term intersectionality to describe the way people’s social identities can overlap, tells ... I only once had the honor of meeting Kimberlé Crenshaw in person. In 2012, Cengiz Barskanmanz organized the Critical Race Theory Europe symposium where I also spoke. She had already become part of my ‘imagined community’ (a concept coined by Ben Anderson in an entirely different context), back in the late 1990s in London. A fellow …Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw ( Canton, 4 de mayo de 1959) es una abogada y académica estadounidense especializada en el campo de la teoría crítica de la raza y profesora de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de California en Los Ángeles y de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Columbia, donde se dedica a la investigación sobre ...Kimberlé Crenshaw explains how race and gender bias can combine to create more harm for people who face multiple forms of exclusion. She urges us to bear witness to this …Kimberlé Crenshaw on Teaching the Truth About Race in America. A pioneering scholar of Critical Race Theory joins us to discuss the true meaning of the practice, and how it became a political flashpoint in schools and beyond. The assault on the practice and ideology known as Critical Race Theory (CRT) has been a wildly successful …Kimberlé Crenshaw uses the term "intersectionality" to describe this phenomenon; as she says, if you're standing in the path of multiple forms of exclusion, you're likely to get hit by both. In this moving talk, she calls on us to bear witness to this reality and speak up for victims of prejudice. social change; gender;Coined by critical legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw, a key DEI concept is intersectionality.Sociologist Patricia Hill Collins defines intersectionality as "the critical insight that race, class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, nation, ability, and age operate not as unitary, mutually exclusive entities, but as reciprocally constructing phenomena that in …Kimberlé Crenshaw (also writes as Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw) is a professor of law at UCLA and Columbia Law School. A leading authority on civil rights, black feminist legal theory, and racism …Dec 15, 2023 · Kimberlé Crenshaw: #SayHerName is actually an imperative that was quite literal in its origins. A lot of people might remember when there was a spate of police killings of African Americans, and ... Kimberlé W. Crenshaw. Feminism, Race. December 1, 1991. In June 1990, the members of the rap group 2 Live Crew were arrested and charged under a Florida …Dec 16, 2023 · Crenshaw, Kimberlé Williams. One of the founders of critical race theory in the US legal academy, a black feminist scholar-activist whose groundbreaking work was an impetus behind the interdisciplinary field known today as “intersectionality studies,” Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw (B.A. Cornell, 1981; J.D., Harvard, 1984; L.L.M., Wisconsin ... Mar 13, 2021 – minute read. One year ago today, Breonna Taylor died at the hands of police in her own home. In honor of her memory, we sat down with leading civil rights advocate and scholar Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw, who founded the #SayHerName movement in 2014. March 13th marks the one year anniversary of the death of Breonna Taylor at ...Kimberlé Crenshaw, Neil Gotanda, Gary Peller, and Kendall Thomas, eds., “Introduction,” Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings that Formed the Movement, The New Press, New York, 1996 at xiii–xxxii was published in The Canon of …Crenshaw is one of its founding scholars and hosted a workshop on the critical race theory movement in 1989. But the idea behind it goes back much further, to the work of civil rights activists ... キンバリー・クレンショー. キンバリー・ウィリアムズ・クレンショー （Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, 1959年 - ）は、米国の 弁護士 、 人権活動家 。. カリフォルニア大学ロサンゼルス校 と コロンビア大学 それぞれの ロースクール で教鞭をとる。. Spring 2016. A law professor and the founder and director of Columbia’s Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies (CISPS), Kimberlé Crenshaw is a leading authority on civil rights, Black feminist legal theory, and race, racism, and the law. In 2015, she helped create the Say Her Name movement to call attention to police violence ... Kimberlé W. Crenshaw. A civil rights activist and scholar, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw is a pioneer in black feminist legal theory and critical race theory. Nearly three decades ago, she coined the term “intersectionality” to describe how related categories such as race, gender, and class overlap to create inequality on multiple levels. Edited by its principal founders and leading theoreticians, Critical Race Theory was the first book to gather the movement’s most important essays. This groundbreaking book includes contributions from scholars including Derrick Bell, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Patricia Williams, Dorothy Roberts, Lani Guinier, Duncan Kennedy, and many others. Kimberlé Crenshaw uses the term "intersectionality" to describe this phenomenon; as she says, if you're standing in the path of multiple forms of exclusion, you're likely to get hit by both. In this moving talk, she calls on us to bear witness to this reality and speak up for victims of prejudice. Kimberle Crenshaw is a Professor of Law and an advocate and educator for civil rights, race studies, constitutional law, and social inclusion. She currently teaches at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), as well as Columbia University. Crenshaw was born in Canton, Ohio in … Read MoreKimberle Williams Crenshaw (1959- ) October 29, 2019. Writing from her office at UCLA School of Law in 1989, Distinguished Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw used the term “intersectionality” in a University of Chicago Legal Forum article to highlight the way that different forms of social inequality or disadvantage manifest and compound each other. En 1989, Kimberlé Crenshaw acuñó el término "interseccionalidad", que se refiere a cómo las personas experimentan múltiples formas de opresión simultáneamente, como el racismo, el sexismo y la homofobia. En su trabajo, Crenshaw ha argumentado que el movimiento feminista debe tener en cuenta no solo el género, sino también la raza, la ...Coined by critical legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw, a key DEI concept is intersectionality.Sociologist Patricia Hill Collins defines intersectionality as "the critical insight that race, class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, nation, ability, and age operate not as unitary, mutually exclusive entities, but as reciprocally constructing phenomena that in …Activist and law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw urges us to ask this question. Through her theory of intersectionality, she explains the overwhelming underrepresentation of violence against African-American women in activism, politics and media. “The problem is, in part, a framing problem,” Crenshaw says. “Without frames that are capacious ...Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, co-founder and executive director of AAPF and bicoastal professor of law at both UCLA and Columbia, is a pioneering scholar and writer on civil rights, critical race theory, Black feminist legal theory, race, racism, and the law. Crenshaw’s work has been foundational in critical race theory and in ...Intersectional feminism, coined by scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989, posits that each layer of an individual’s identity can help us better understand how and when they experience power and oppression. ... According to Crenshaw, “Feminism investigates and challenges the forces that cause injustice or inequality. However, those forces are ... October 29, 2019. Writing from her office at UCLA School of Law in 1989, Distinguished Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw used the term “intersectionality” in a University of Chicago Legal Forum article to highlight the way that different forms of social inequality or disadvantage manifest and compound each other. I have long admired the words and work of Kimberlé Crenshaw, and believe that intersectionality is a necessary framework for understanding and effectively addressing the deeply rooted societal ... Kimberlé Crenshaw uses the term "intersectionality" to describe this phenomenon; as she says, if you're standing in the path of multiple forms of exclusion, you're likely to get hit by both. In this moving talk, she calls on us to bear witness to this reality and speak up for victims of prejudice. NPR's A Martinez talks to Kimberle Crenshaw, who coined the term "critical race theory," about anti-racism and why she believes it must be part of American discourse. Critical race theory, or CRT ...Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw is Professor of Law at University of California, Los Angeles, and Columbia University. Luke Charles Harris is Associate Professor of Political Science at Vassar College. Daniel Martinez HoSang is Associate Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Race, and Migration at Yale University.‘Critical Race Theory’ is explained as neither Marxist nor racist by its leading scholar, Kimberlé Crenshaw, who co-developed this framework of study, and co...
Here is what I found in the volume and in an article by Kimberlé Crenshaw, one of the book’s editors and one of the movement’s most insightful thinkers. Read More Politics & Ideas Schumer .... Apex trading co
Crenshaw, Kimberlé. "Demarginalizing the intersection of race and sex: A black feminist critique of antidiscrimination doctrine, feminist theory and antiracist politics." u. Chi. Legal f. (1989): 139. Support the author. Visit and/or donate to the African American Policy Forum, which was co-founded by Kimberlé Crenshaw.キンバリー・クレンショー. キンバリー・ウィリアムズ・クレンショー （Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, 1959年 - ）は、米国の 弁護士 、 人権活動家 。. カリフォルニア大学ロサンゼルス校 と コロンビア大学 それぞれの ロースクール で教鞭をとる。.New York, February 16, 2016— Columbia Law School Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw has received the Outstanding Scholar Award from The Fellows of the American Bar Foundation. The annual prize recognizes exceptional scholarship in the law or in government. Crenshaw is the first woman of color to get the honor. Crenshaw has been a pioneering scholar ...Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw is Professor of Law at University of California, Los Angeles, and Columbia University. Luke Charles Harris is Associate Professor of Political Science at Vassar College. Daniel Martinez HoSang is Associate Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Race, and Migration at Yale University.Kimberlé Crenshaw is a Black feminist legal scholar and host of the award-winning podcast "Intersectionality Matters with Kimberlé Crenshaw. She is the co-founder and Executive Director of the African American Policy Forum. Read more Read less You're getting a free audiobook. $14.95 per month after 30 days. ...Professor Crenshaw, a leading thinker and scholar in the field of critical race theory, coined the term "intersectionality" to describe the oppression of African-American …The legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw, who was a student at the law school at the time, told me, “We initially coalesced as students and young law professors around this course that the law ...Crenshaw is one of its founding scholars and hosted a workshop on the critical race theory movement in 1989. But the idea behind it goes back much further, to the work of civil rights activists ...Kimberle Crenshaw. The University of Chicago Legal Forum 140:139-167 (1989) Kimberlé Crenshaw is the co-founder and Executive Director of the African American Policy Forum, a gender and racial justice legal think tank, and the founder and Executive Director of the Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies at Columbia Law School. Kimberlé Crenshaw is the co-founder and Executive Director of the African American Policy Forum, a gender and racial justice legal think tank, and the founder and Executive Director of the Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies at Columbia Law School.Kimberlé Crenshaw Biography. Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, co-founder and executive director of AAPF and bicoastal professor of law at both UCLA and Columbia, is a pioneering scholar and writer on civil rights, critical race theory, Black feminist legal theory, race, racism, and the law. Crenshaw’s work has been foundational in critical race ... Kimberlé Crenshaw uses the term "intersectionality" to describe this phenomenon; as she says, if you're standing in the path of multiple forms of exclusion, you're likely to get hit by both. In this moving talk, she calls on us to bear witness to this reality and speak up for victims of prejudice. Learn about the life and work of Kimberlé Crenshaw, a leading authority in the area of civil rights, Black feminist legal theory and race, racism and the law. She is a professor of law at UCLA and Columbia, a co-founder of …Critical race theorist Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, who coined the term intersectionality, talks activism with U.K. Black Pride organizer Lady Phyll. In 1989, celebrated critical race theorist and professor Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw penned the now-seminal paper for that year’s volume of the University of Chicago Legal Forum Journal.How to say Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw in English? Pronunciation of Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw with 2 audio pronunciations, 1 meaning and more for Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw.Kimberlé Crenshaw (also writes as Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw) is a professor of law at UCLA and Columbia Law School. A leading authority on civil rights, black feminist legal theory, and racism …Jun 8, 2017 · Professor Crenshaw, a leading thinker and scholar in the field of critical race theory, coined the term "intersectionality" to describe the oppression of African-American women and other groups. She also co-founded the African American Policy Forum, a think tank that works on racial justice, identity politics, and policing issues. She shares her insights on where she sees intersectionality research heading and her ongoing work as a scholar and advocate. .