Kimberle Crenshaw’s arguments and research in “The Intersection of Race and Gender†offer an insightful and probing look into the state of women of color in the current racial and gender climate of our culture. Her main point, that women of color experience both their race and their gender together in a way that is NOT mutually exclusive, as they are so often treated, and are informed one by the other and as they occur simultaneously, is one that almost sparks a flippant attitude of “No kidding.â€When the argument is first introduced, it seems to simple and so self-evident as to be self-explanatory (and taken for granted); at first it almost seems like a waste of time to be delving into something so painfully obvious.
