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Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw

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Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw (born May 5, 1959) is an American civil rights advocate and a scholar of critical race theory. She is a professor at the UCLA School of Law and Columbia Law School, where she specializes in race and gender issues. Crenshaw is known for introducing and developing intersectionality, also known as intersectional theory, the study of how overlapping or intersecting social identities, particularly minority identities, relate to systems and structures of oppression, domination, or discrimination. Her work further expands to include intersectional feminism, which is a sub-category related to intersectional theory. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw is the 41st most popular lawyer (up from 86th in 2019), the 3,129th most popular biography from United States (up from 9,053rd in 2019) and the 11th most popular American Lawyer.

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Among lawyers, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw ranks 41 out of 136. Before her are Baldus de Ubaldis, Scooter Libby, Hans Gross, Tivadar Soros, Franz von Liszt, and Adrian Năstase. After her are Helmuth James von Moltke, Qasim Amin, Al-Sarakhsi, Bernhard Windscheid, Judy Sheindlin, and Cino da Pistoia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw ranks 112. Before her are Paul McGrath, Thomas F. Wilson, Stephen Harper, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, Helmuth Duckadam, and Majed Abdullah. After her are Patricia Clarkson, László Kövér, Irene Cara, Thomas Ravelli, Saul Perlmutter, and Linda Blair.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw ranks 3,129 out of 20,380. Before her are J. T. Walsh (1943), Gloria Leonard (1940), Robert Reid (1862), Barry E. Wilmore (1962), Maurice White (1941), and Lindsay Lohan (1986). After her are Olympia Dukakis (1931), Charles Grodin (1935), Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860), Paula Abdul (1962), Elihu Root (1845), and Tito Puente (1923).

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Among LAWYERS In United States

Among lawyers born in United States, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw ranks 11. Before her are Merrick Garland (1952), Doug Emhoff (1964), Roy Cohn (1927), Bill Gates Sr. (1925), Warren Christopher (1925), and Scooter Libby (1950). After her are Judy Sheindlin (1942), James B. Donovan (1916), Robert Bilott (1965), William J. Brennan Jr. (1906), Alan Dershowitz (1938), and William Rehnquist (1924).

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