Kimberlé Crenshaw (Critical Race Theory) - Jung & Naiv: Episode 830

Subscribe to the channel + support us financially ► http://www.paypal.me/JungNaiv Discuss in the Jung & Naiv forum ► http://forum.jungundnaiv.de/ Guest in the studio: Kimberlé Crenshaw, American legal scholar, civil rights activist, and co-founder of Critical Race Theory. Crenshaw is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Columbia University. Her areas of expertise include institutionalized racism in U.S. law and feminist legal theory. She coined the term intersectionality. Crenshaw is co-founder of the African American Policy Forum and president of the Center for Intersectional Justice. A conversation about American democracy, the history of racial segregation after the end of slavery, Obama, Trump & white supremacy, using laws to advance society, the struggle over memory and media power, Kimberlé’s childhood, youth, and family, her path toward intersectional thinking and the founding of Critical Race Theory, as well as false assumptions about CRT. Please support our work financially: Account holder: Jung & Naiv — or “Jung und Naiv” or “Jung + Naiv” IBAN: DE854 3060 967 104 779 2900 GLS Gemeinschaftsbank PayPal ► http://www.paypal.me/JungNaiv #CRT #USA #Trump 00:00 Introduction 03:02 Broken promises and the myth of liberal democracy 08:08 Law, democracy and the Civil Rights Movement 12:42 Reconstruction, slavery and the 13th Amendment loophole 20:00 Frederick Douglass and the betrayal after Reconstruction 24:35 Book bans, censorship and today’s backlash 30:00 Obama, domestic terrorism and the rise of the far right 33:52 Did Crenshaw see the backlash coming? 39:34 The war on memory, education and culture 44:50 Billionaires, media power and public consent 48:45 Growing up in Ohio and white flight 53:22 Restrictive covenants and housing segregation 57:48 Anti-Blackness beyond the white/Black binary 01:01:31 Childhood, school and family expectations 01:05:03 Discovering intersectionality through lived experience 01:12:20 Religion, race and political awakening 01:19:35 Law school, exclusion and institutional racism 01:28:45 What intersectionality really means 01:33:00 Critical Race Theory and the misinformation machine 01:40:00 Colorblindness, backlash and distorted language 01:45:04 Structural critique vs. personal responsibility 01:47:00 Racism in Germany and beyond the U.S. 01:49:02 Closing thoughts and Europe visits