39. The Insurgent Origins of Critical Race Theory

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Intersectionality Matters with Kimberlé Crenshaw

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🗓️ 2 September 2021

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Over the past year, Critical Race Theory has been increasingly misrepresented by the Right in an organized, widespread effort to stifle racial justice and gender equity, and weaken our multiracial democracy. In response to these attacks, AAPF held a 5-day Critical Race Theory Summer School in mid-August to educate participants about the origins, principles, and insights of Critical Race Theory, and to chart a path forward. On this episode, we bring you a conversation that took place on the first day of Summer School, which features some of the leading thinkers in the field of Critical Race Theory. Together, the panelists tell the story of CRT came to be, explore what it teaches us about the world, and discuss it can now help us protect the very existence of critical thinking about race. With: ANTHONY COOK - Professor of Law, Georgetown; Author, The Least of These: Race, Law and Religion in American Culture DANIEL MARTINEZ HOSANG - Associate Professor of Ethnicity, Race & Migration, Yale; Author, Racial Propositions: Ballot Initiatives GLORIA LADSON-BILLINGS - Pedagogical theorist & educator; Author, The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children GARY PELLER - Professor of Law, Georgetown; Author, Critical Race Consciousness ROBERT A. WILLIAMS, JR - Professor of Law, University of Arizona; Author, Savage Anxieties: The Invention of Western Civilization Hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw (@sandylocks) Produced and edited by Julia Sharpe-Levine Supported provided by Destiny Spruill, Ashley Julien, Rebecca Scheckman, and the African American Policy Forum Music by Blue Dot Sessions Follow us at @intersectionalitymatters, @IMKC_podcast

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0:00.0	The 2024 presidential election was marked by soaring highs and crushing lows. Black women, 91% of whom turned out for VP Harris, once again proved to be the most engaged, progressive, and resilient voting bloc.
0:16.0	In an election campaign where rampant sexism and racism was directed not only at Harris,
0:22.1	but at black women more broadly, the misogy noir we just witnessed is already being written
0:27.0	out of the analysis of what actually happened.
0:30.0	There seems to be a widening gap between what black women experienced and what the
0:34.1	pundit and political classes choose to talk about.
0:37.3	So join host Kimberly Crenshaw for a virtual under the blacklight conversation on December 3rd at 7 p.m. Eastern.
0:45.7	Black women advocates, activists, and analysts will offer their side of the story about the election
0:50.9	and highlight the risks to our democracy if we continue to erase black women
0:56.2	and their experiences. Register for free at Bitley slash Election 24 Road Ahead. That's Bitley
1:04.5	slash Election 24 Road Ahead. I'm Kimberly Crenshaw, and this is Intersectionality Matters, the podcast that brings
1:15.8	intersectionality to life by exploring the hidden dimensions of today's most pressing issues,
1:21.7	from, say, her name and COVID, to the war on civil rights and the global rise of fascism. This idea Traveologue
1:29.8	lifts up the work of leading activists, artists, and scholars, and helps listeners understand
1:35.4	politics, the law, social movements, and even their own lives in deeper, more nuanced ways.
1:48.0	Well, what a difference a year makes, or maybe not.
1:52.0	Some of you who've been following Trump's Executive Order 13950, the Equity
1:58.0	Gag Order, probably were excited when President Biden withdrew the order.
2:04.3	The order, if you recall, banned the teaching of structural racism, critical race theory,
2:10.3	and intersectionality with an idea that these ideas were discriminatory.
2:16.4	They harmed white people. Well, it didn't go away just because
2:21.6	President Biden withdrew the order. In fact, the problem has gotten bigger than even it was last year.
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