Prof. Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Columbia/UCLA Law Schools

1. Prof. Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Columbia/UCLA Law Schools Structural Racial Inequality and Intersectionality: Conceptual Tools to Reframe Social Justice Interventions

2. The Need for a Structural and Intersectionality Lens on Social Inclusion If facts don’t fit the frame, people reject the facts.

3. SOURCE: FRANK GILLIAM, FRAMEWORKS 3

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5. The Colorblind Framing of Racial Inequity SOURCE: FRANK GILLIAM, FRAMEWORKS 5

6. School-to-prison pipeline Racial Profiling Wealth Disparities Stereotype Threat Employment Discrimination White advantage Racial Inequity in a Structural Race Frame 6

7. Economy Criminal Justice Politics Health Care Education National Myths • Punitive means of social control • Unlimited resources for incarceration Reduction in Resources for schools Zero tolerance, warehousing, racially disparate punishment, high drop-out rates Values Culture

8. Women Race/Ethnicity Poor AGE, DISABILITY, ETC. III. Intersectional Invisibility

9. III. The Politics of Intersectional Invisibility: Mutual Exclusion • Race and Gender Bias are Related but Separate Struggles • Representatives are those who are dominant within the group • Interventions Must Foreground One or the Other but not Both

10. Women Race/Ethnicity Poor AGE, DISABILITY, ETC. Uncovering Intersectional Invisibility Envisioning what Lies Beneath

11. II. The Consequences of Intersectional Invisibility • Why are they invisible? • Over-Inclusion • Feminization of Poverty • Under-Inclusion • Incarceration • Sterilization

12. Constructing Intersectional Invisibility • Degraffenreid v. G.M. • Is There Race Discrimination? Is there Sex Discrimination?

13. An Intersectional AccidentCompound Discrimination Gender  Racism Gender and Race Discrimination | K. Crenshaw

14. II. Defining Intersectionality • The Metaphors • Roads = Axis of Subordination • Patriarchy, Racial Hierarchy, etc. • Traffic = Dynamics of Subordination • Vehicles of Discrimination that impact the women -- race, gender, class & global economic forces • “In The Cross Roads” = Where Marginalized Women Are Located

15. Equal Opportunity? Competing Conceptions of Running the Race

16. Equal Opportunity Myth

17. Reverse Discrimination Myth

18. “The (Un) equal Opportunity Race” Discrimination in Employment Under Funded Schools School to Prison Pipeline Hyper-Segregation Racial Isolation Stereotype Threat Implicit Bias Racial Profiling Connections Privilege Wealth