Category - Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Women

There are many, many different kinds of intersectional exclusions – not just black women but other women of color. Not just people of color, but people with disabilities. Immigrants. LGBTQ people. Indigenous people.

– Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Women

Sexism isn’t a one-size-fits-all phenomenon. It doesn’t happen to black and white women the same way.

– Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Society

I think the O.J. Simpson trial was a revelation about the ongoing patterns of racial difference in American society.

– Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Society

While many Americans agree that ‘the system is rigged’ economically, few are aware of the ways in which racial inequality has been structured and embedded in our society. This is why candid, fact-based discussions about racial inequality are so desperately needed.

– Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Society

Cultural patterns of oppression are not only interrelated but are bound together and influenced by the intersectional systems of society. Examples of this include race, gender, class, ability, and ethnicity.

– Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Respect

Separate but unequal’ didn’t work in respect to race, it doesn’t work in respect to gender, and it especially doesn’t work when looking at the intersection of race and gender.

– Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Respect

The point of feminism is you shouldn’t have to be a man to be treated with equal respect.

– Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Power Relationship Women

Intersectionality is an analytic sensibility, a way of thinking about identity and its relationship to power. Originally articulated on behalf of black women, the term brought to light the invisibility of many constituents within groups that claim them as members but often fail to represent them.

– Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Politics

Feminists must denounce the use of white insecurity – whether in relation to white womanhood, white neighborhoods, white politics, or white wealth – to justify the brutal assaults against black people of all genders.

– Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Politics

Intersectionality is not easy. It’s not as though the existing frameworks that we have – from our culture, our politics, or our law – automatically lead people to being conversant and literate in intersectionality.

– Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Politics

When feminism does not explicitly oppose racism, and when anti-racism does not incorporate opposition to patriarchy, race and gender politics often end up being antagonistic to each other, and both interests lose.

– Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

History Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Legal

Some of the worst racist tragedies in history have been perfectly legal.

– Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

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