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Forging the Woke One Ring: Kimberlé Crenshaw's "Mapping the Margins"

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The Birthplace of Wokeness

"This is the birth place. This first sentence in particular of this footnote is the birthplace of wokeness," he says. "By tracing the categories to their intersections, I hope to suggest a methodology that will ultimately disrupt the tendencies to see race and gender as exclusive or separable." The term 'woke' was coined by rapper Erica Badu after Trayvon Martin's shooting but wasn't popular until 2013.

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