Los Angeles, CA
Since the publication of Kimberlé Crenshaw's formative articles - Demarginalizing
the Intersection of Race & Sex (1989), and Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality,
Identity Politics & Violence Against Women of Color (1994) - the concept of
intersectionality has traversed more than a dozen academic disciplines and
transnational and popular political discourse, generated multiple conferences,
monographs, and anthologies, and animated hundreds of articles and essays. In the
twenty years since Crenshaw introduced intersectionality, critiques of identity
politics and multiculturalism and, more recently, claims of a "post-racial" era have
blossomed. In 2010, we will re-visit the origins of intersectionality as a
theoretical frame and site of legal interventions and consider its still unfolding
potential for unmasking subordination and provoking social change.