Kimberlé Crenshaw

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Kimberlé Crenshaw

Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw (* 1959 in Canton , Ohio ) is an American lawyer . She is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles and Columbia University . She specializes in institutionalized racism in US law and feminist legal theory . Crenshaw coined the technical term intersectionality , the combination of different forms of discrimination . She is President of the Berlin Center for Intersectional Justice (CIJ).

academic career

Kimberlé Crenshaw studied law at Cornell University and received her bachelor's degree in 1981 . She then attended Harvard University , where she earned her Juris Doctor degree in 1984 and a Master of Laws from the University of Wisconsin – Madison in 1985 . She worked on the Wisconsin Supreme Court for a year . In 1986 she received her first teaching position at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). At Columbia Law School, she founded the Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies (CISPS) in 2011 . She is currently a professor at both universities, UCLA and Columbia University.

From 2005 to 2007, Crenshaw received the Ira Glasser Racial Justice Fellowship from the American Civil Liberties Union . In 2007 she received the Fulbright Chair for Latin America in Brazil . From 2008 to 2009 she was a Fellow of the Center of Advanced Behavioral Studies at Stanford University .

African-American Policy Forum

In 1996, Crenshaw founded the African-American Policy Forum (AAPF) together with Luke Charles Harris . The aim of this think tank is to uncover and dismantle links between forms of discrimination such as racism , sexism and classism .

In 2014, Crenshaw criticized Barack Obama's “My Brother's Keeper” initiative, which aimed to expand social opportunities for young black men. She headed the #WhyWeCantWait online campaign, which protested against the exclusion of black women and structural racism in the digital space. The movement was very popular and supported by prominent activists such as Alice Walker and Angela Davis . Crenshaw has summarized the main points of view of this initiative in her article Why Intersectionality Can't Wait .

Publications (selection)

  • Critical Race Theory (edited by Kimberlé Crenshaw, et al.). New Press (1995)
  • Words that Wound: Critical Race Theory, Assaultive Speech and the First Amendment (with Mari J. Matsuda, et al.). Westview (1993).
  • The Race Track: Understanding and Challenging Structural Racism (with Luke Charles Harris and George Lipsitz ). New Press (2013).
  • Reaffirming Racism: The faulty logic of Colorblindness, Remedy and Diversity (edited by Kimberlé Crenshaw and Gary Peller). New Press (2013).

In addition to her academic work, Crenshaw is a contributor to magazines such as The Nation and the feminist Ms. Magazine . She appears regularly as a guest commentator on the radio and television stations NPR and MSNBC . Crenshaw is a co-founder of the Women's Media Initiative , which supports the representation of women in the media and offers training programs for women journalists.

Awards

  • 1985 William H. Hastie Fellow
  • 1991 Professor of the Year, UCLA School of Law
  • 1994 Professor of the Year, UCLA School of Law
  • 2007 Fulbright Chair for Latin America in Brazil
  • 2008 recipient of the Alphonse Fletcher Fellowship
  • 2008 Fellow, Center for Advanced Behavioral Studies in the Social Sciences, Stanford University
  • 2015 No. 1 Most Inspiring Feminist, Ms. Magazine
  • 2015 “Power 100” Ebony Magazine
  • 2016 Outstanding Scholar Award, Fellows of the American Bar Foundation

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Who we are. Retrieved August 2, 2018 .
  2. ^ Change agents of 2014: African-American women on social media . ( tsdmemphis.com [accessed March 23, 2017]). Change agents of 2014: African-American women on social media ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / tsdmemphis.com
  3. ↑ Kimberlé Crenshaw: Why Intersectionality Can't Wait . In: The Washington Post . September 24, 2015, ISSN  0190-8286 ( washingtonpost.com [accessed March 23, 2017]).
  4. ↑ Canton native Kimberle Crenshaw receives legal scholar award . In: The Repository . ( cantonrep.com [accessed March 23, 2017]).
  5. ^ Canton native wins fellowships to study race . In: The Repository . ( cantonrep.com [accessed March 23, 2017]).
  6. ^ Canton native wins fellowships to study race . In: The Repository . ( cantonrep.com [accessed March 23, 2017]).
  7. ↑ Canton native Kimberle Crenshaw receives legal scholar award . In: The Repository . ( cantonrep.com [accessed March 23, 2017]).
  8. ↑ American Bar Foundation: UCLA and Columbia Law Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw to Receive 2016 Fellows Outstanding Scholar Award - American Bar Foundation. Retrieved March 23, 2017 .
  9. ↑ American Bar Foundation: UCLA and Columbia Law Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw to Receive 2016 Fellows Outstanding Scholar Award - American Bar Foundation. Retrieved March 23, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Crenshaw, Kimberlé
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Crenshaw, Kimberlé Williams; Crenshaw, Kimberlé W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Canton , Ohio