Backtalker, by Kimberlé Crenshaw: Live from Reid Hall
When the frameworks built to translate lived injustice into legal and political power come under direct assault, the question of how — and whether — to speak becomes a matter of survival. In this episode, recorded live at Reid Hall, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law at Columbia University joins Keithley Woolward, associate director of the Columbia M.A. in History and Literature to discuss her memoir Backtalker, written in part at Reid Hall during her 2022 Faculty Visitorship.
She traces the throughline from a churchgoing childhood in Canton, Ohio, through the…
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