Intersectionality

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“All (Poor) Lives Matter”: How Class-Not-Race Logic Reinscribes Race and Class Privilege
Jonathan P. Feingold
Jonathan P. Feingold is an Associate Professor at Boston University School of Law; B.A., Vassar College; J.D., UCLA School of Law.

The author thanks Jerry Kang for feedback on a prior draft and thanks the editors of The University of Chicago Law Review for their superb edits and feedback, and Sean Hickey for research assistance that supported this Essay.

In An Intersectional Critique of Tiers of Scrutiny, Professors Devon Carbado and Kimberlé Crenshaw infuse affirmative action with an overdue dose of intersectionality theory. Their intervention exposes equality law as an unmarked intersectional project that “privileges the intersectional identities of white antidiscrimination claimants.”

Critical-Race Theory Intersectionality

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