Review: Kimberlé Crenshaw's Memoir 'Backtalker' Explores Life Shaped by Racism and Hope

Backtalker by Kimberlé Crenshaw review – the audacity of hope

The inspiring life of the Black American activist and legal scholar who changed the way the world things about race Kimberlé Crenshaw’s memoir describes a life shadowed by Jim Crow segregation and racism, but lit up by hope. That the social conditions of her early life did not destroy her family, as they had so many others, must be credited to their extraordinary grit and determination. The journey that led Crenshaw to create the influential legal theory of “intersectionality” begins with th...

By Dorothy A Brown