Book Review: ‘Backtalker,’ by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw
Looking again, Crenshaw means that her traumatic childhood impressed her compassion for marginalized and invisible individuals. Even as we see the pall of unhappiness elevate — Crenshaw has some enjoyable when she works as an undergrad “smooth-groove cupid” DJ on late-night radio — the theme of repressed ache persists all through her Ivy League schooling…