Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2019
DOI
https://doi.org/10.5070/L3261044346
Abstract
Twenty-seven years after Anita Hill testified in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee that Clarence Thomas sexually harassed her, and as Christine Blasey Ford prepares to testify that Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were teenagers, we still have not learned our mistakes from that mess in 1991.
Most people recognized that it looked bad, a black woman fending for herself in front of a group of white men. Yet we can’t acknowledge the central tragedy of 1991 – the false tension between feminist and antiracist movements.
We are still ignoring the unique vulnerability of black women.
Disciplines
Civil Rights and Discrimination | Law | Legal History
Recommended Citation
Kimberlé W. Crenshaw,
We Still Have Not Learned from Anita Hill's Testimony,
26
UCLA Women's L. J.
17
(2019).
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