Kimberle Crenshaw Imparts The Importance Of Intersectionality

It's a special digital-only episode of Under the Radar with Callie Crossley! Intersectionality may be a buzz word in the news, personal essays and protest marches now, but it wasn't a well-known concept until scholar Kimberle Crenshaw developed and present the theory in the 1980s. Crenshaw is a leading scholar in the fields of critical race theory and women's studies, and a law professor at UCLA and Columbia University. She's also the 2017 recipient of Brandeis University's Gittler Prize, which is granted to scholars whose work make a lasting contribution to racial, ethnic or religious relations. Callie Crossley sat down with Kimberle Crenshaw to discuss her theory of intersectionality, and how its evolved and grown outside of the scholastic world.