Kimberle Williams Crenshaw is an American civil rights advocate and scholar of critical race theory, born in 1959, who teaches at the UCLA School of Law and Columbia Law School, specializing in race and gender issues. She is known for introducing and developing the concept of intersectionality, the study of how overlapping or intersecting social identities, particularly minority identities, relate to systems of oppression, domination or discrimination. Her work extends to intersectional feminism, examining the overlapping systems of oppression women face because of ethnicity, sexuality and economic background.
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Birth DateSourced to the subject's own account Birth YearSourced to the subject's own account BirthplaceSourced to the subject's own account Nationality / CultureSourced to the subject's own account Defining ContributionSourced to the subject's own accountIntroduced and developed the concept of intersectionality, the study of how overlapping social identities relate to systems and structures of oppression, domination, or discrimination. 1 Notable WorkSourced to the subject's own accountMapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics and Violence against Women of Color (2010) 1 Connections
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Kimberle Crenshaw coined intersectionality in 1989 to describe how overlapping systems of race, gender and other categorizations compound to shape distinct experiences of disadvantage.
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Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw (born May 5, 1959) is an American civil rights advocate and a scholar of critical race theory.
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American civil rights advocate
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Crenshaw is known for introducing and developing the concept of 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.
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She is a professor at the UCLA School of Law and Columbia Law School, where she specializes in race and gender issues.
Associated With: Stanford University, Article text
Crenshaw has been awarded the Fulbright Chair for Latin America in Brazil, and in 2008, she was awarded an in-residence fellowship at the Center for Advanced Behavioral Studies at Stanford.
Practices Studied: Law, Article text
A complete and understandable definition has not been written in the law; therefore, when the issues of intersectionality are presented in a court of law, if one form of discrimination cannot be proved without the other, then there is no law broken.
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