Backtalker: An American Memoir by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw has an overall rating of Rave based on 7 book reviews.
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Date
May 5, 2026
Backtalker is the 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, eventually leading to her articulate two concepts that would forever change national and global debates about equality: intersectionality and critical race theory.
The inspiring life of the Black American activist and legal scholar who changed the way the world things about race
She coined the term ‘intersectionality’ and helped to develop critical race theory, now her life’s work is under attack by…
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