1968: Unearthing the Linked Narratives of Critical Race Theory, Intersectionality, and Their Discontents

This talk by distinguished legal scholar and policy leader, Kimberlé Crenshaw will begin with what should be a puzzling convergence. How is it that after five years of a grassroots uprising against anti-Black police violence, and after eight years of a Black president in the White House, did a newly anointed activist against the criminal justice system and a frontrunner for the Democratic nomination both arrive at the same conclusion: the first step in the contemporary manifestations of white supremacy is to fix the family. Crenshaw will unearth events from 1968 that reach into contemporary efforts to link race inequality to socio-cultural deficits of African Americans, and connect opposition to this narrative to the emergence of Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality.

A Q&A and book signing will follow the talk.