The First Decade: Critical Reflections, or "A Foot in the Closing Door"

Authors

Kimberlé W. Crenshaw, Columbia Law SchoolFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2002

Abstract

In the introduction to Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement, Gary Peller, Neil Gotanda, Kendall Thomas, and I framed the development of Critical Race Theory (CRT) as a dialectical engagement with liberal race discourse and with Critical Legal Studies (CLS). We described this engagement as constituting a distinctively progressive intervention within liberal race theory and a race intervention within CLS. As neat as this sounds, it took almost a decade for these interventions to be fleshed out fully. Reflecting on the past ten years of CRT, this Article explores the course of these interventions from the personal perspective of an organizer and early participant of CRT. Looking forward, I offer some speculative and aspirational views about our future.

Disciplines

Law | Law and Race | Law and Society

Recommended Citation

Kimberlé W. Crenshaw, The First Decade: Critical Reflections, or "A Foot in the Closing Door", 49 UCLA L. Rev. 1343 (2002).
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