person1985–present

Kimberle Crenshaw

Summary

Kimberle Crenshaw is a professor at UCLA School of Law and Columbia Law School and one of the founding scholars of Critical Race Theory. She is best known for coining the concept of intersectionality—the idea that race, gender, and other identity categories interact to produce compounded forms of discrimination—in her landmark 1989 article in the University of Chicago Legal Forum.

Core Contribution

Coined and theorised intersectionality; co-founded Critical Race Theory; her 1989 and 1991 articles redefined how law and social science understand overlapping oppressions.

Key Spikes & Highlights

intersectionality
critical race theory
CRT
DEI
race and gender
civil rights

Notable Works & Achievements

Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex

Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color

Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement

On Intersectionality: Essential Writings

Historical Influences

Derrick Bell Mari Matsuda Charles Lawrence feminist jurisprudence

Intellectual Lineage

Derrick Bell feminist legal theory civil rights law tradition

Contemporaries & Peers

Mari Matsuda Charles Lawrence Patricia Williams Angela Harris

Minds Influenced

DEI curriculum worldwide contemporary social justice movement legal civil rights scholarship Patricia Hill Collins

Intellectual Posterity

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