About the Show
United States of Amnesia – The Real Histories of Critical Race Theory is a series explaining what CRT really is. We explore CRT’s past, its present, and what our reaction to it says about America’s future.
Each episode explores the truth about CRT, and highlights how the key to saving our democracy, which is very much at risk, lies in our ability to understand our history, and spot old tactics that have successfully polarized America for generations.
This is a production of Intersectionality Matters! with Kimberlé Crenshaw (IMKC), created by the team at the African American Policy Forum
Meet the Host
Kimberlé Crenshaw
Co-Founder & Executive Director, AAPF
Kimberlé Crenshaw is the Co-founder and Executive Director of the African American Policy Forum, and the founder and Executive Director of the Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies at Columbia Law School. She is the Promise Institute Professor at UCLA Law School and the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor at Columbia Law School.
She is popularly known for her development of “intersectionality,” “Critical Race Theory,” and the #SayHerName Campaign, and is the host of the podcast Intersectionality Matters!. She also is a columnist for The New Republic, and the moderator of the widely impactful webinar series Under The Blacklight: The Intersectional Vulnerabilities that the Twin Pandemics Lay Bare. She is one of the most cited scholars in legal history and has been recognized as Ms. magazine’s “No. 1 Most Inspiring Feminist;” one of Prospect Magazine’s ten most important thinkers in the world; and even listed in Ebony’s “Power 100″ issue.
