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 […]
Alan Freeman, Legitimizing Racial Discrimination Through Antidiscrimination Law: A Critical Review of Supreme Court Doctrine
This article analyzes supreme court cases dealing with questions of racial discrimination from 1954 to 1989 to argue that anti-discrimination law was guided by what the author calls a ‘perpetrator perspective’ rather than a ‘victim perspective’, focussing on de jure segregation rather than de facto segregation, formal equality rather than substantive equality, or what some […]