| LC control no. | n 94100486 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Crenshaw, Kimberlé |
| Variant(s) | Crenshaw, Kim |
| Other standard no. | 0000000031492547 53386293 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | Los Angeles (Calif.) New York (N.Y.) |
| Birth date | 1959 |
| Place of birth | Canton (Ohio) |
| Field of activity | Race discrimination--Law and legislation Homophobia--Law and legislation Sex discrimination against women--Law and legislation Intersectionality (Sociology) Critical race theory |
| Affiliation | Columbia University. Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies African American Policy Forum University of California, Los Angeles. School of Law |
| Profession or occupation | Lawyers Law teachers University and college faculty members |
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| Found in | Critical race theory, 1995: CIP t.p. (Kimberle Crenshaw) book t.p. (Kimberlé Crenshaw) p. v (Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw) Race, reform and retrenchment, 1986: t.p. (Kim Crenshaw) AALS dir. of law teachers, 1988-89 (Crenshaw, Kimberle Williams; b. 1959) Wikipedia.org, 18 Feb. 2017 (Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw; b. 1959 in Canton, OH; American civil rights advocate and leading scholar in critical race theory; law professor at UCLA and Columbia where she specializes in race and gender issues; bachelor's degree in government and Africana studies from Cornell University 1981, JD from Harvard 1984, LLM from University of Wisconsin 1985; joined the faculty of the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law in 1986 where she was a founder of the field of critical race theory, in 1995 appointed full professor at Columbia Law School where she was the founder and director of the Center for Intersectionality & Social Policy Studies in 2011; co-founder and executive director of the African American Policy Forum; introduced the theory of intersectionality to feminist theory in the 1980s, and her focus on intersectionality is on how the law responds to issues that include gender and race discrimination) UCLA School of Law website, viewed on March 13, 2020: author's page (Kimberlé W. Crenshaw, Distinguished Professor of Law, Promise Institute Chair in Human Rights; teaches civil rights and other courses in critical race studies and constitutional law; joined faculty in 1986) |
| Associated language | eng |
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