Crenshaw Marginalisation Of Black Women

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Within the article Crenshaw explains the racism that is in the American Law system in the context of feminism. On page 1276 Crenshaw makes a point the black men who rape white women serve longer prison sentences than white men who rape white woman and black men that rape black women. This shows both racism towards black men and the marginalisation of black women. However this article did not give statistical evidence for this account. The only point in her article that gives any form of evidence is a citation. Further research into this citation lead to multiple articles and journals but one had specific statistics. These statistics show both the marginalisation of black men and black women but in separate forms. On the one hand black men who

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