Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Quotes

Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
American Activist
Born: 1959
Black People Racism Think White Women
Related authors: Angela Davis Cesar Chavez Gloria Steinem Harriet Tubman Malcolm X Noam Chomsky Sojourner Truth Susan B. Anthony
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. Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
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Censorship is certainly not the answer to controversial material and is inconsistent with our most basic constitutional values. Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
Censorship Values Our Constitutional Most Answer Material Controversial Certainly Basic Inconsistent
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. Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
Work Politics Class Experience Challenge Power Feminism Consistently Draws Ourselves Takes Attention Attentive Obviously Exist Lot Aspects
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. Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
You Together Will Inclusive Unlikely Various Develop Come Look Policies How Been Discrimination Trained Forms Lens Need Set
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
Class Together Oppression Gender Society Systems Ability Examples Only Bound Cultural Influenced Patterns Race Ethnicity Include Interrelated
While white women and men of color also experience discrimination, all too often their experiences are taken as the only point of departure for all conversations about discrimination. Being front and center in conversations about racism or sexism is a complicated privilege that is often hard to see. Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
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Some of the worst racist tragedies in history have been perfectly legal. Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
History Legal Worst Some Perfectly Been Tragedies
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. Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
Relationship Women Light Black Power Thinking Analytic Way Claim Members Constituents Brought About Fail Invisibility Term Identity Within Articulated Behalf Represent Often Sensibility Them Many Groups Originally
Black girls are punished, many times violently so, for questioning and challenging authority, which is something that is often celebrated and encouraged as a sign of intelligence and critical thinking in white boys. Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
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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. Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
Good News People Complicated Good News Way See More Exclusion Subjected Provides Discrimination Often Forms Us Who Multiple Imagine
Sexism isn't a one-size-fits-all phenomenon. It doesn't happen to black and white women the same way. Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
Women Black Black And White White Way Sexism One-Size-Fits-All Same Happen White Women Phenomenon
Our democracy cannot be left in the hands of those who would rather watch or participate in a train wreck than stop it. Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
Democracy Our Those Would Wreck Rather Participate Left Train Than Hands Stop Cannot Who Watch
When people talked about O.J. Simpson being race-neutral, that was a race card. It just meant we don't think of him as black. But race-neutral is just like flesh-tone Band-aids. It's not neutral; it's white. Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
People Black White Think About Neutral Simpson Like Him Talked Just Being Race Meant Card
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. Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
Family Culture Conservative Old Poverty About Attendant Ideas Policy Non-Traditional Inequality Link Formation Race Social Old Ideas Racial Social Policy Core
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 colour can rely upon with our white feminist allies. Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
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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. Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
First Feminism Claim About Never Come Priority Feminists Going Where Us Moment Who Agree
When you ask people to name victims of police brutality, for the most part, nobody will give you a woman's name. Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
You Woman People Police Will Give Brutality Part Nobody Name Most Victims Ask
Families, community leaders, and others must create the public will to address the challenges facing black girls and other girls of color as well by listening to them, valuing their experiences, and becoming actively involved in creating policies and innovative programs that promote their well-being. Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
Challenges Listening Will Black Girl Community Other Programs Others Innovative Address Valuing Must Promote Facing Color Leaders Involved Well Policies Well-Being Becoming Families Experiences Public Them Create Creating Actively
When we advocate for violence against women to be eliminated on campuses, we say, 'Well, actually, it's not just on campuses we have to worry about.' We might have to worry about high schools. We might have to worry about police precincts and cars. We might have to worry about public housing. Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
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People with problems are not problem people. Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
People Problem Problems
In every generation and in every intellectual sphere and in every political moment, there have been African American women who have articulated the need to think and talk about race through a lens that looks at gender or think and talk about feminism through a lens that looks at race. Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
Generation Women Political Gender Feminism Every Think Sphere About Through Talk Looks Been Intellectual Articulated American African African-American Race Lens Moment Who American Women Need
'Formation' and 'Lemonade' speak to experiences that are too under-represented in our culture. But there are costs to certain forms of visibility. I don't think it is a bad thing to discuss what these costs are. Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
Culture Speak Think Too Our Visibility Bad Costs Bad Thing Discuss Experiences Formation Lemonade Forms Certain Thing
What many people, I think, don't really understand is how much their rights really turn on the interpretation of the Supreme Court. Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
Rights People Interpretation Think Supreme Supreme Court Court Understand How How Much Turn Turn-On Much Really Many
I have a wonderful, diverse, and young staff at the AAPF who pretty much work around the clock trying to figure out how we promote the idea that social justice requires us to be intersectional in our thinking and in our scope of vision. Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
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I think it's useful to recall that a lot of these statutes like 'disrupting the classroom' or 'disturbing the peace' have long been historically used to oppress and criminalize black people. Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
Peace People Black Long Think Criminalize Disturbing Classroom Like Been Oppress Lot Historically Used Useful Recall
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. Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
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