Kimberlé Crenshaw, “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory, and Anti-Racist Politics.

Crenshaw is interested here in looking at how antidiscrimination law renders black women invisible, and distorts the multidimensionality of their experience – she says it best in her opening paragraph: “One of the very few Black women’s studies books is entitled “All the Women Are White; All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us are Brave.” I have chosen this title as a point of departure in my efforts to develop a Black feminist criticism because it sets forth a problematic consequence of the tendency to treat race and gender as mutually exclusive categories of experience and analysis.’ In this talk, I want to examine how this tendency is perpetuated by a single-axis framework that is dominant in antidiscrimination law and that is also reflected in feminist theory and antiracist politics.” https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1052&context=uclf