In 1981, she assisted on the legal team of Anita Hill during her testimony at the confirmation hearing of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.Ĭrenshaw writes regularly for The New Republic, The Nation, and Ms. She is a founding coordinator of the Critical Race Theory workshop and co-editor of Critical Race Theory: Key Documents That Shaped the Movement. Her writing has appeared in the Harvard Law Review, the National Black Law Journal, the Stanford Law Review, and the Southern California Law Review. She is also the co-author of Black Girls Matter: Pushed Out, Overpoliced, and Underprotected. Crenshaw and AAPF subsequently launched the #SayHerName campaign to call attention to police violence against Black women and girls.Ĭrenshaw is a sought-after speaker and conducts workshops and trainings. Through the Columbia Law School African American Policy Forum (AAPF), which she co-founded, Crenshaw co-authored (with Andrea Ritchie) Say Her Name: Resisting Police Brutality Against Black Women, which documented and drew attention to the killing of Black women and girls by police. Her studies, writing, and activism have identified key issues in the perpetuation of inequality, including the “school to prison pipeline” for African American children and the criminalization of behavior among Black teenage girls. In addition to her position at Columbia Law School, she is a Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California, Los Angeles.Ĭrenshaw’s work has been foundational in critical race theory and in “intersectionality,” a term she coined to describe the double bind of simultaneous racial and gender prejudice. Crenshaw is a pioneering scholar and writer on civil rights, critical race theory, Black feminist legal theory, and race, racism and the law.
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