Violence to any of us is a threat to every one of us, Anita Hill said when she came to emphasize that sexual harassment is not normal just because it is prevalent, and that opposing sexual assault should be stronger than any friendship. And if the government that you have elected does not care what you have experienced, she said, you are not part of the community. Anita Hill
Featuring
Kimberle Crenshaw, is a Prof. of Law at Columbia and UCLA, and is director of Columbias Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies (CISPS), which she founded. She is also co-founder of the African American Policy Forum. She is a founding coordinator of the Critical Race Theory workshop and co-editor of Critical Race Theory: Key Documents That Shaped the Movement. Her work on race and gender was influential in the drafting of the equality clause in the South African Constitution and she authored the background paper on Race and Gender Discrimination for the United Nations World Conference on Racism and helped facilitate the inclusion of gender in the WCAR Conference Declaration. In the domestic arena, she has served as a member of the National Science Foundation's committee to research violence against women, and has assisted the legal team representing Anita Hill.
produced by Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash
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