Said and Crenshaw lectured at UCLA in the early 2000s.

Evidence

I was a second-year law student at UCLA when I learned that Edward Said, the Palestinian American intellectual whose words lifted my intellect and pushed me to write, would be coming to campus. The news of his visit sent me over the moon, and I sank myself into his autobiography, Out of Place, dreaming about my opportunity to ask him a question. … However, my excitement quickly dissipated when I realized there was an obstacle: Said’s lecture conflicted with my favorite class, “Race in Cinema,” taught by a professor, Kimberlé Crenshaw, who would become my greatest mentor. What a dilemma! I did not want to miss class, my favorite at the time and one of the most memorable courses of my time in law school. On the other hand, I could not miss seeing Said speak, particularly at a moment when his work meant so much—perhaps more than ever—to me. I certainly did not want to choose between learning from the two intellectual giants who crafted Orientalism and coined “intersectionality.” — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 258

Categorization

• XREF: The two intellectual anchors — Orientalism and intersectionality — form the theoretical backbone the reader’s global-synthesis project draws on.