Since the Arizona state legislature passed the draconian anti-immigration bill SB 1070, other states seem to be in a race to catch up. Nebraska and Mississippi, with some of the nation’s smallest percentages of Latinos living within their borders, are nonetheless trying to pass some of the toughest anti-immigration laws we have seen to date, […]
Kimberlé Crenshaw
Kimberlé Crenshaw is a civil rights advocate and a leading scholar of critical race theory. She developed intersectionality, the study of how overlapping social identities, particularly minority identities, relate to structures of oppression. Her work includes intersectional feminism, which examines the systems of discrimination that women face due to their ethnicity, sexuality and economic background.