No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black
women. We are rarely recognized as a group separate and distinct from black men, or as a …

Black women2 in America3 have always been workers-as slaves, farmers, domestics, skilled
and unskilled laborers, and even, in small numbers, as professionals. Their ability to find …

In 1989, Kim Crenshaw published an essay entitled" Demarginalizing the Intersection of
Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and …

The silence of office buildings after they are closed, that's what I loved as a child. I remember
accompanying my mother's best friend on her job. It seemed like she had keys to a secret …

Introduction The American labor system has been shaped by historical White1 male
domination that continues to subordinate people of color and women. The authors agree …

Law School Classroom,'Professors Robert Chang and Adrienne Davis write of the tools that
people of color, women, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (" LGBT") persons use …

The closing decades of the twentieth century witnessed an exciting surge in scholarly
attention among legal academics to the legal status of women of color. Both traditional civil …

In late November 1987, a fifteen-year-old Black girl named Tawana Brawley was discovered
in an upstate New York community smeared with excrement and racial slurs. She claimed …

In 1984 I returned to Yale Law School to participate on a panel of mainly black alumni
reminiscing about the thirty years since Brown v. Board of Education} It was a symposium …

In my previous work, I have dealt with black lawbreakers as if they were the exception rather
than the rule, and then argued that some of them are more deserving of sympathetic …