Backtalker : an American memoir / Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw.
"It is not very often that someone comes along and permanently reshapes the way Americans think about two of the most important issues of the day. In this case: race and gender. But that is what Kimberlé Crenshaw did when she articulated two concepts that would forever change national and global debates about equality: intersectionality and critical race theory. Backtalker is the powerful and intimate story of how a little girl from Canton, Ohio, came up with a new way to look at the world. Crenshaw's memoir traces the way her lived experience made her see things others didn't as the daughter of a strong-minded teacher and a pathbreaking public servant, and as the sister of a protective, yet bullying older brother. She starts to talk back, and that backtalking has continued throughout her life. It happens when she is denied a role in the kindergarten school play. When she is escorted to the back door of a private club. When Anita Hill is exiled for testifying against Clarence Thomas. When OJ Simpson goes on trial. When Obama launches My Brother's Keeper, a movement focused on boys of color only. When the movement against police violence overlooks Black women. Crenshaw is there for all of it. In the vein of Ta-Nehisi Coates and Bryan Stevenson, Crenshaw evokes each time and place like a gifted novelist with extreme honesty and specificity, making her book a series of awe-inspiring, deep revelations. As a result of her work, Crenshaw has become a force to be reckoned with across America--at schools, in the workplace, at dinner tables, and, of course, in our public square."-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781982181000
- ISBN: 1982181001
- Physical Description: xiii, 377 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, [2026]
Content descriptions
- Formatted Contents Note:
- A note from Kim -- Part I: Raising a backtalker -- Race warrior girl at three -- Resistance starts at home -- "Happy talk" -- The making of a militant -- Show them what they're dealing with -- Killing them with kindness -- Ministry of song and hope -- Harbingers -- Cloudy skies -- Newark-bound -- Revelations -- On becoming a girl ... a Black girl -- Et tu, mommy -- Life, disembodied -- The shadow of your smile -- Honorable discharge -- Wilberforce -- The sleepover -- The world changes -- A Raisin in the sun -- The incredible hulk -- "Urban renewal" -- Speaking the truth to power -- A budding backtalker goes to Washington -- Moving on -- Part II: Becoming a backtalker -- Great awakenings -- The BFH -- "Ain't no stopping us now" -- Welcome to Harvard Law -- A law professor of color -- Showdown at the Ames Moot Court Competition -- Prof. Jim Jones -- The personal becomes political -- Tom, Jerry, and the making of critical race theory -- Part III: Being a backtalker -- A grave intersectional failure -- "Go, O.J., go!" -- Seen, but not heard -- On being my mother's daughter -- Why "we" can't wait -- #SayHerName.
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