Kimberlé W. Crenshaw, a pioneering scholar and writer on civil rights and critical
race theory, will speak to the TCU community on intersectionality and how it calls
attention to the forces that create and sustain power and privilege in American society.
The virtual presentation is 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 14, on Zoom. Sponsored by the Center for Connection Culture and the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, the event is free for TCU faculty, staff and students, but registration is required by April 8.
Crenshaw is the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher professor of law at Columbia Law School and a distinguished professor of law at the University of California, Los Angeles. She coined the term intersectionality to call attention to the multiple forces that create and sustain power and privilege in American society — and contribute to the discrimination and oppression of minority groups.
“One-dimensional approaches to social justice advocacy continue to divide key constituencies into distant and sometimes competing interests,” she said. “Nowhere is this division more clearly visible than in discourses surrounding racial and gender bias in the workplace, where one-dimensional approaches often render the experiences of women of color unintelligible.”
The hourlong event will include a 45-minute keynote presentation and a 15-minute Q&A session.