Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw
Biographic Data
| ID | 130148 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kimberlé Williams |
| FAMILY NAME | Crenshaw |
| SIGNATURE | CRENSHAW K W |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 655 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Race, Racism, and International Law
What would it look like to place race at the center of international legal scholarship? From its inception in the 70s and 80s, critical race theory's target was the field of law, revealing it to be a repository for racial power. This particular critique of law was explosive because of law's putatively apolitical status, making it a unique site for an intellectual sit-in that has forever changed the way that race and racism are understood in Ameri…
Race, Reform, and Retrenchment
The commission was charged with the responsibility of issuing guidelines for states and localities to follow in preparing their observances of King’s birthday. The oppositional dynamic exemplified in this list was created and maintained through an elaborate and systematic process. Laws and customs helped to create “races” out of a broad range of human traits. White race-consciousness also played a role in the nascent labor movement in the North. …
Seeing Race Again
Every academic discipline has an origin story complicit with white supremacy. Racial hierarchy and colonialism structured the very foundations of most disciplines’ research and teaching paradigms. In the early twentieth century, the academy faced rising opposition and correction, evident in the intervention of scholars including W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Carter G. Woodson, and others. By the mid-twentieth century, education itself bec…
Toward a Field of Intersectionality Studies
Intersectional insights and frameworks are put into practice in a multitude of highly contested, complex, and unpredictable ways. We group such engagements with intersectionality into three loosely defined sets of practices: applications of an intersectional framework or investigations of intersectional dynamics; debates about the scope and content of intersectionality as a theoretical and methodological paradigm; and political interventions empl…
Intersectionality
Very few theories have generated the kind of interdisciplinary and global engagement that marks the intellectual history of intersectionality. Yet, there has been very little effort to reflect upon precisely how intersectionality has moved across time, disciplines, issues, and geographic and national boundaries. Our failure to attend to intersectionality's movement has limited our ability to see the theory in places in which it is already doing w…
Intersectionality, Identity Politics and Violence Against Women of Color
This article examines how the experiences of women of color are often marginalized within both feminist and antiracist discourses. Crenshaw argues that identity politics, while empowering, can flatten intra-group differences. Focusing on violence against women of color, she demonstrates how the intersection of race and gender creates unique experiences not adequately addressed by movements focusing solely on either category. Both feminist and ant…
Critical Race Theory
"Speech" and Some of Its Wounds
Race, Reform, and Retrenchment
Recent works by neoconservatives and by Critical legal scholars have suggested that civil rights reforms have been an unsuccessful
Race, Reform, and Retrenchment
Recent works by neoconservatives and by Critical legal scholars have suggested that civil rights reforms have been an unsuccessful
Intersectionality
Very few theories have generated the kind of interdisciplinary and global engagement that marks the intellectual history of intersectionality. Yet, there has been very little effort to reflect upon precisely how intersectionality has moved across time, disciplines, issues, and geographic and national boundaries. Our failure to attend to intersectionality's movement has limited our ability to see the theory in places in which it is already doing w…
Critical Race Theory
Intersectionality, Identity Politics and Violence Against Women of Color
This article examines how the experiences of women of color are often marginalized within both feminist and antiracist discourses. Crenshaw argues that identity politics, while empowering, can flatten intra-group differences. Focusing on violence against women of color, she demonstrates how the intersection of race and gender creates unique experiences not adequately addressed by movements focusing solely on either category. Both feminist and ant…
Race, Reform, and Retrenchment
Recent works by neoconservatives and by Critical legal scholars have suggested that civil rights reforms have been an unsuccessful
"Speech" and Some of Its Wounds
Critical Race Theory
Intersectionality, Identity Politics and Violence Against Women of Color
This article examines how the experiences of women of color are often marginalized within both feminist and antiracist discourses. Crenshaw argues that identity politics, while empowering, can flatten intra-group differences. Focusing on violence against women of color, she demonstrates how the intersection of race and gender creates unique experiences not adequately addressed by movements focusing solely on either category. Both feminist and ant…
Toward a Field of Intersectionality Studies
Intersectional insights and frameworks are put into practice in a multitude of highly contested, complex, and unpredictable ways. We group such engagements with intersectionality into three loosely defined sets of practices: applications of an intersectional framework or investigations of intersectional dynamics; debates about the scope and content of intersectionality as a theoretical and methodological paradigm; and political interventions empl…
Intersectionality
Very few theories have generated the kind of interdisciplinary and global engagement that marks the intellectual history of intersectionality. Yet, there has been very little effort to reflect upon precisely how intersectionality has moved across time, disciplines, issues, and geographic and national boundaries. Our failure to attend to intersectionality's movement has limited our ability to see the theory in places in which it is already doing w…
Seeing Race Again
Every academic discipline has an origin story complicit with white supremacy. Racial hierarchy and colonialism structured the very foundations of most disciplines’ research and teaching paradigms. In the early twentieth century, the academy faced rising opposition and correction, evident in the intervention of scholars including W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Carter G. Woodson, and others. By the mid-twentieth century, education itself bec…
Race, Reform, and Retrenchment
The commission was charged with the responsibility of issuing guidelines for states and localities to follow in preparing their observances of King’s birthday. The oppositional dynamic exemplified in this list was created and maintained through an elaborate and systematic process. Laws and customs helped to create “races” out of a broad range of human traits. White race-consciousness also played a role in the nascent labor movement in the North. …
Race, Racism, and International Law
What would it look like to place race at the center of international legal scholarship? From its inception in the 70s and 80s, critical race theory's target was the field of law, revealing it to be a repository for racial power. This particular critique of law was explosive because of law's putatively apolitical status, making it a unique site for an intellectual sit-in that has forever changed the way that race and racism are understood in Ameri…
Gender Studies (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Political science (5 works) · Race (biology) (4 works) · Intersectionality (3 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (3 works) · Race, History, and American Society (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Feminism (2 works)