Countering Colorblindness Across the Disciplines seminar, Kimberlé Crenshaw, “Black Girls Matter: Organizing for a Gender-Inclusive Racial Justice Movement”

Kimberlé Crenshaw. Columbia University Law School and UCLA Law School,“Black Girls Matter: Organizing for a Gender-Inclusive Racial Justice Movement” (June 2, 2015)

Crenshaw discusses an array of initiatives to elevate long-ignored issues of concern to black women and girls, including #SayHerName, a recent report documenting and remembering black women and girls killed by police. Crenshaw’s writing and research on “intersectionality” — examining the ways that race, class, gender and other forms of difference converge and interact — has influenced a generation of scholars in the in the humanities and social sciences.

Made possible with support from the Department of Ethnic Studies, The Office of Academic Affairs, the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics, and the College of Arts and Sciences in conjunction with the Countering Colorblindness Across the Disciplines seminar.