I coined the term 'intersectionality.' I helped develop critical race theory. Here's why.
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The scholar who coined "intersectionality" explains the intellectual origins of critical race theory — and why its politicization misses the entire point of the framework.
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Theory Briefing
- Kimberlé Crenshaw coined 'intersectionality' to capture how race, gender, and class overlap to produce compounded disadvantage — not just single-axis discrimination.
- A painful moment at Harvard and a shocking congressional exchange reveal how CRT has been stripped of meaning and weaponized in culture-war politics.
- Critical race theory was built to expose structural inequality, but its public backlash illustrates how dominant groups reframe systemic critique as ideological threat.