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Dimensions of discrimination

Do black woman face more prejudice than black men or white women? Professor KimberlΓ© Crenshaw introduced her famous concept of β€˜intersectionality’ to help address such questions.

Do black women face more prejudice than black men or white women? The legal scholar KimberlΓ© Crenshaw introduced a new way of thinking about disadvantage in society. She called it β€˜intersectionality’. It attempts to analyze how different forms of marginalisation – race, class, gender and so on – overlap. And it has been hugely influential on those academics and policy makers who deal with the nature and impact of discrimination.

Presenter: David Edmonds

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