Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw’s path from ‘Backtalker’ to legal scholar
Legal scholar Kimberly Williams Crenshaw reflects on her life and intellectual journey in her memoir Backtalker, tracing the origins of intersectionality and critical race theory to personal and historical experiences of racial and gender injustice. She recounts how systemic erasure and
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