Crenshaw

collegiate scholarship. Academically, he is not the strongest, and lives at his mother’s house with his girlfriend and infant son. Chris, who is wheelchair bound from a gunshot wound, and Darrin, who is constantly in and out of jail, are now a part of the Crenshaw Crip gang. We come to conclude here, from the circumstances each friend grew up in, that the choices they had been making when they were merely 10 years old, affected the kind of person they became as they are entering…

Black feminist thought can be thought of as an understanding behind the intersectionality of race and sex. The assumption that race and sex can be divorced and examined separately prevents many people from grasping the concept of black feminist thought. African-American women are a part of a minority race and minority sex, which they must live with on a daily basis. Therefore, examining race and sex separately is a distorted, biased, and inaccurate view on African-American women in society. As a…

In “Mapping the Margins,” Crenshaw provides insight into the intersecting identities and experiences of marginal women—namely women of colour, poor women, immigrant women, and undocumented women, among others—stressing the reciprocal ways in which these social positions interact with…

lawsuit on them quiets then down (Broverman, 2015). Firms that have the money and the power to do such a thing usually do put some form of lawsuit in against those who are defaming their name. They will do this regardless if those individuals are being honest and telling the truth about the company in question. The final tactic is to “Pollute the Classroom”. This is where the company in question provides material to classrooms across the United States with misleading information about what they…

According to Titzer and Shirey (2013), “succession planning is defined as a strategic plan to ensure continued organizational leadership” (p. 155). It utilizes mentoring and coaching, as well as, grooms individuals within the organization that have been identified as having the potential to fill senior administrative positions when they become available (Tae, 2012, p. 14). In turn, it decreases the costs of recruiting and orienting new staff, as well as, encourages staff to be accountable for…

As Crenshaw discusses in Mapping the Margins, race plays a direct role in an individual’s identity. These men of color are breaking their racial norms and gender norms which strikes heavy cords within society. Of the individuals that break society’s standards…

As a result of the high number of crimes being committed by juveniles, with the weapon of choice being guns, in 1995, COPS took action to help selected police departments in the United States with the fight against these crimes; The Youth Firearms Violence Initiative. Ten cities in total were selected to take on this task (Baltimore, Maryland; Birmingham, Alabama; Bridgeport, Connecticut; Cleveland, Ohio; Inglewood, California; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Richmond, Virginia; Salinas, California; San…

These and other publications by Islamist extremists demonstrate their concern over the need to rationalize and defend their violent actions against criticism from learned scholars within the Muslim world. This is not a challenge unique to al-Qaeda: terrorists and insurgents throughout history have faced a significant challenge of convincing their audiences that the righteousness of their cause justifies their violent attacks. For al-Qaeda, nowhere has this rationalization effort become more…

Feminism is, without a doubt, one of the most misunderstood social justice movements in modernity. There are a number of people, contemporary and otherwise, who refuse to even call themselves feminists due to the negative connotation the word has acquired – images of bras being burned, discussions of mandatory castration, militant pursuit of misogynist men in both the public and personal sphere – all of these things contribute to a very dark, almost violent image of feminist spaces. And while…

At first when one does something and is good at it, one loves to always do that. Once that something is over one wishes that one never did that something. Neely Crenshaw and Eddie Rake are symbols of lives lived and that are also wrecked with regret. For Neely he wishes he had never picked up a football when he was a child. And for Rake, he wishes that he could take back what he did during halftime of the 1987 championship game and also what he never told his players. Sometimes it takes a very…