In this episode, we are joined by two renowned legal scholars who helped build the field of Critical Race Theory. Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw (UCLA School of Law, Columbia Law School) established and championed the concept of intersectionality; she is the host of the podcast Intersectionality Matters! and the author of many books, including #SayHerName: Black Women's Stories of State Violence and Public Silence and her recent memoir, Backtalker: An American Memoir. Professor Cheryl Harris (UCLA School of Law) is the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Chair in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at UCLA School of Law, a founder of UCLA Law's Critical Race Studies Program, and the author of "Whiteness as Property," one of the most influential articles in the Critical Race Theory canon.
Professors Crenshaw and Harris discuss the evolution of their careers, what it took to build their scholarship from inside institutions that often resisted them, and what the current backlash against race scholarship means for the future of the work.
