Via @Miisaakan in Knowledge Justice: Disrupting Library and Information Studies Through Critical Race Theory
CRT, and Intersectionality, are informed by Marxism: “CRT borrows from other frameworks such as Marxism and feminism, which is necessary because … nothing is a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.” “Though the term intersectionality was coined by law professor Kimberlé Williams-Crenshaw, the notion was explored as far back as 1919 in black feminist organizing spaces where race intersected with class, gender, and sexuality, with groups such as the US Communist Party, Chicago’s Alpha Suffrage Club, and the Combahee River Collective.” “A CRT scholar seeks to understand the truth of their condition, and through that journey to come to identify all the mechanisms, including systems of knowledge, that make systemic oppression function.”
