Kimberlé Crenshaw's "Backtalker: an American Memoir"
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Eric Newman interviews Kimberlé Crenshaw about her memoir Backtalker, discussing her experiences and insights on prejudice, power, and the law.
Eric Newman interviews Kimberlé Crenshaw about her memoir Backtalker: An American Memoir . One of the most influential legal scholars of the past half century, Crenshaw is widely known for developing the analytical framework of intersectionality and pioneering the field of critical race theory. In Backtalker , she reflects on the personal experiences, intellectual influences, and era-defining cultural events that shaped her thinking about prejudice, power, and the law. In this conversation, Crenshaw talks about her family, traces the conflicts and inequalities that continue to define public life and the law in the United States, and considers how we might face the racial, sexual, and gendered retrenchment in the present.
People in this episode
Host: Eric Newman
Guest: Kimberlé Crenshaw
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Organizations: critical race theory
Books & works: Backtalker: An American Memoir
Places: United States
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