'To Establish My Legitimate Name Inside the Consciousness of Strangers': Critical Race Praxis, Progressive Women-of-Colour Theorizing, and Human Rights

In this article, the author uses Eric Yamamoto's critical race praxis (critical race theory in practice) as a starting point. Yamamoto advocates the need to use practical experience within antiracism movements to constantly adapt one's theoretical approaches. In part one, the author provides a brief outline of human rights law, the United States human rights movement, and the global discourse of race. The next two sections consider how the core concepts of intersectionality and multidimensionality played out at the World Conference Against Racism (WCAR) in regards to issues for women of colour. The author concludes that advocates need to recast their theoretical approach given the negative reaction to the intersectionality approach utilized at the WCAR to advance concerns of women of colour.