The Ideas and Assumptions Encoded in Raceīy contrast, consider the everyday experiences of a poor, undocumented Latina living in the U.S. Thus, Crenshaw concluded that Black women were disproportionately marginalized due to the simultaneous, intersecting nature of how they are read by others as both raced and gendered subjects. She found, for example, that when cases brought by Black women failed to match the circumstances of those brought by white women or by Black men, that their claims were not taken seriously because they didn't fit perceived normative experiences of race or gender. In this paper, Crenshaw reviewed legal proceedings to illustrate how it is the intersection of race and gender that shapes how Black men and women experience the legal system. The term “intersectionality” was first popularized in 1989 by critical legal and race scholar Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw in a paper titled, “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrines, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics,” published in The University of Chicago Legal Forum. Crenshaw on Race and Gender in the Legal System
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