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Over the past twenty years, the concept of intersectionality” has emerged as an influential approach to understanding the complex facets of discrimination and exclusion in a society whose memberswith often complex racial, gender, or sexual identitiescan experience bias in multiple ways.
In this incisive introduction to Crenshaw’s groundbreaking work, readers will find the key essays and articles that have defined the concept of intersectionality collected together for the first time. Crenshaw explores how a holistic analysis of discrimination gives rise to a more nuanced understanding of salient social forces. This long-awaited volume examines the Central Park jogger case, Alice Walker’sThe Color Purple, LGBT activism, Anita Hill’s testimony against Clarence Thomas, and other significant matters of public interest. In each case, her analysis challenges and exposes the intricate social dynamics among individuals and groups whose identities are increasingly layered.
This new account covers the evolution of the meaning of intersectionality over the course of two decades and how this concept has radically changed the face of social justice activism.On Intersectionality is compulsory reading from one of the most brilliant critical race theorists of our time.
Biografía del autor
Kimberlé Crenshaw is a professor of law at UCLA and Columbia Law School. A leading authority on civil rights, black feminist legal theory, and racism and the law, she is a co-editor ofCritical Race Theory (The New Press). Crenshaw is a contributor to Ms. Magazine,The Nation, and the Huffington Post. She lives in Los Angeles.
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- EditorialNew Pr
- Año de publicación2015
- ISBN 10 1595587047
- ISBN 13 9781595587046
- EncuadernaciónTapa blanda
- IdiomaInglés
- Número de páginas240
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