American civil rights activist Kimberle Williams Crenshaw is also a renowned expert in intersectionality.She teaches at the Columbia Law School and UCLA School of Law and focuses on racial and gender problems. Kimberle Williams Crenshaw is also an author who has written many books on topics such as intersectionality, that deal with various forms of social issues.She also stood for the rights of black women and is quite active in politics. She mainly raises the issues of race and black women, which is quite evident in her quotes. Kimberle Crenshaw wanted to look into the demands of black women. The birthplace of this author is Canton, Ohio and the date of birth is May 5, 1959.Famous Kimberle Crenshaw QuotesHere are some famous quotes by Kimberle Crenshaw.“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.““The struggle against patriarchy and racism must be substantively robust and inextricably intertwined.““We’re never going to come to a moment where all of us who claim to be feminists can agree about what the first priority of feminism is.““Antiracists must acknowledge that patriarchy has long been a weapon of racism and cannot sit comfortably in any politic of racial transformation.““We have to move back to the idea that education isn’t about teaching people to bow to rigid rules. That’s not what democracy is about.““The point of feminism is you shouldn’t have to be a man to be treated with equal respect.““Some of the worst racist tragedies in history have been perfectly legal.“Kimberle Crenshaw Quotes On IntersectionalityHere are some quotes on intersectionality by Kimberle Crenshaw.“If we aren’t intersectional, some of us, the most vulnerable, are going to fall through the cracks.““Intersectionality is a lens through which you can see where power comes and collides, where it interlocks and intersects.““Intersectionality draws attention to invisibilities that exist in feminism, in anti-racism, in class politics, so, obviously, it takes a lot of work to consistently challenge ourselves to be attentive to aspects of power that we don’t ourselves experience.““Intersectionality has given many advocates a way to frame their circumstances and to fight for their visibility and inclusion.““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.““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."“A lot of people think that intersectionality is only about identity. But it’s also about how race and gender are structured in particular workforces.”(Kimberle Crenshaw is credited for creating and popularizing intersectional theory.)Thought-Provoking Kimberly Crenshaw QuotesHere are some thought-provoking quotes by famous Kimberle Crenshaw.“Treating different things the same can generate as much inequality as treating the same things differently.““Clearly, we must denounce militaristic approaches to global unrest and find life-affirming ways to end repressive cycles of violence rooted in discrimination, humiliation, and despair.““At the core of conservative social policy about race are old ideas that link racial inequality to non-traditional family formation and its attendant culture of poverty.““When you ask people to name victims of police brutality, for the most part, nobody will give you a woman’s name.““I think that the same kind of openness and fluidity and willingness to interrogate power that we, as feminists, expect from men in alliance on questions of class should also be the expectation that women of color can rely upon with our white feminist allies.““We might have to broaden our scope of how we think about where women are vulnerable, because different things make different women vulnerable.“Editorial credit: lev radin / Shutterstock.com
American civil rights activist Kimberle Williams Crenshaw is also a renowned expert in intersectionality.
