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Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw

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Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw (born May 5, 1959) is an American civil rights advocate and a scholar of critical race theory. She is a professor at the UCLA School of Law and Columbia Law School, where she specializes in race and gender issues. Crenshaw is known for introducing and developing intersectionality, also known as intersectional theory, the study of how overlapping or intersecting social identities, particularly minority identities, relate to systems and structures of oppression, domination, or discrimination. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw has received more than 887,012 page views. Her biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw is the 86th most popular lawyer (down from 71st in 2019), the 9,051st most popular biography from United States (up from 10,020th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular American Lawyer.

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  • 890k

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  • 44.85

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.96

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.71

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among LAWYERS

Among lawyers, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw ranks 86 out of 136. Before her are Gu Kailai, Ken Starr, Christian Gottfried Körner, A. V. Dicey, Doug Emhoff, and G. Gordon Liddy. After her are Christopher A. Wray, Clara González, Aisha Rateb, Karim Ahmad Khan, Alberto Nisman, and Felix Frankfurter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw ranks 367. Before her are Bronson Pinchot, Pedro Pierluisi, Khadja Nin, Satoshi Miyauchi, Alexandre Guimarães, and Vagiz Khidiyatullin. After her are John Patitucci, Naoji Ito, Urs Meier, Vigdis Hjorth, Päivi Räsänen, and Sylvia Hanika.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw ranks 9,051 out of 20,380. Before her are Haley Bennett (1988), Veronica Hamel (1943), Norman Foster (1903), Erin Heatherton (1989), Wayne Static (1965), and John Hopfield (1933). After her are John Patitucci (1959), Virginia Pearson (1886), Gerrit Smith Miller (1869), T. R. Knight (1973), Sarah Orne Jewett (1849), and Ray Mercer (1961).

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Among LAWYERS In United States

Among lawyers born in United States, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw ranks 22. Before her are Merrick Garland (1952), Michael Cohen (1966), Clarence Darrow (1857), Ken Starr (1946), Doug Emhoff (1964), and G. Gordon Liddy (1930). After her are Christopher A. Wray (1966), John Dean (1938), Roscoe Pound (1870), Benjamin N. Cardozo (1870), Robert Treat Paine (1731), and Judy Sheindlin (1942).

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