Backtalker : a memoir
Crenshaw, Kimberlé2026
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When Kimberlé Crenshaw was five years old in Ohio during the civil rights era, she was the only girl denied a lead role in her nursery play. Puzzled by her teacher's behaviour, she spoke up - and never stopped. That instinct to question power, to challenge what others accepted as fair, would shape not only her own life but the way we now understand race and gender. In this work, Crenshaw traces her journey from a spirited girl in Canton, Ohio to one of the most influential legal thinkers today. Through childhood lessons and painful reckonings, Crenshaw learned to see the patterns others missed, refusing to stay behind the lines the world drew for her. Out of those experiences came two ideas that changed everything: intersectionality, the recognition that race, gender, and class overlap to create unique forms of discrimination; and critical race theory, the argument that racism is structural.
Main title:
Backtalker : a memoir / Kimberlé Crenshaw.
Author:
Crenshaw, Kimberlé, author
Imprint:
London : Allen Lane, 2026.
Collation:
400 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9780241585221 (hbk)
Dewey class:
342.73085092342.7308
LC class:
KF373
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
4365523
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