American - Activist | 1959 -
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
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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.
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The better we understand how identities and power work together from one context to another, the less likely our movements for change are to fracture.
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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.
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If you don't have a lens that's been trained to look at how various forms of discrimination come together, you're unlikely to develop a set of policies that will be as inclusive as they need to be.
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Sexism isn't a one-size-fits-all phenomenon. It doesn't happen to black and white women the same way.
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Censorship is certainly not the answer to controversial material and is inconsistent with our most basic constitutional values.
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I think the O.J. Simpson trial was a revelation about the ongoing patterns of racial difference in American society.
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Some of the worst racist tragedies in history have been perfectly legal.
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The way we imagine discrimination or disempowerment often is more complicated for people who are subjected to multiple forms of exclusion. The good news is that intersectionality provides us a way to see it.
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'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.
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The struggle against patriarchy and racism must be substantively robust and inextricably intertwined.
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