Events
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration Week: Keynote Presentation by Kimberle Crenshaw
Date and Time
Wednesday, January 18, 2017 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Description
Kimberlé Crenshaw is an award-winning professor of law at UCLA and Columbia Law school. She is an expert in civil rights, Black feminist legal theory, and race and the law.
Crenshaw coined two terms — critical race theory and intersectionality — that have proved foundational in many areas of study. A specialist on race and gender equality, she has facilitated workshops for human rights activists in Brazil and in India, and for constitutional court judges in South Africa. Her groundbreaking work on intersectionality has traveled globally and was influential in the drafting of the equality clause in the South African Constitution.
She is a leading voice in calling for a gender-inclusive approach to
racial justice interventions, having spearheaded the Why We Can’t Wait
Campaign and co-authored "Black Girls Matter: Pushed Out,
Overpoliced and Underprotected," and "Say Her Name:
Resisting Police Brutality Against Black Women."
Note: this program will be simulcast to DeVos Center, Loosemore
Auditorium, on the Pew Grand Rapids Campus.
Connection to the Classroom
LIB 100 & 201 Approved!
Social Justice & Human Rights: (LIB100)
Upon completion of this program, attendees will be able to
discuss the history of the civil rights movement in the 1950s and
1960s, as well as the current movements of today.
Diverse Communities: (LIB 201)
Upon completion of this program, attendees will be able to share
why it is imperative to approach civil rights movement through an
intersectional lens.
Oppression and Discrimination: (LIB 201)
Upon completion of this program, attendees will be able to
discuss the continued oppression and discrimination in today’s society
and how today’s civil rights leaders are taking lessons from history.
Contact
Office of Multicultural Affairs at (616) 331-2177