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Intersectionality : origins, contestations, horizons / Anna Carastathis.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Expanding frontiersPublisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2016Description: 1 online resource (xxiii, 272 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780803296626
  • 0803296622
  • 9780803296633
  • 0803296630
  • 9780803296640
  • 0803296649
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Intersectionality.DDC classification:
  • 305.4201 23
LOC classification:
  • HQ1190 .C374 2016eb
Other classification:
  • SOC010000 | SOC008000
  • SOC008000.
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Intersectionality, Black Feminist Thought, and Women-of-Color Organizing; 2. Basements and Intersections; 3. Intersectionality as a Provisional Concept; 4. Critical Engagements with Intersectionality; 5. Identities as Coalitions; 6. Intersectionality and Decolonial Feminism; Conclusion; References; Index.
Summary: "Intersectionality intervenes in the field of intersectionality studies: the integrative examination of the effects of racial, gendered, and class power on people's lives. While "intersectionality" circulates as a buzzword, Anna Carastathis joins other critical voices to urge a more careful reading. Challenging the narratives of arrival that surround it, Carastathis argues that intersectionality is a horizon, illuminating ways of thinking that have yet to be realized; consequently, calls to "go beyond" intersectionality are premature. A provisional interpretation of intersectionality can disorient habits of essentialism, categorial purity, and prototypicality and overcome dynamics of segregation and subordination in political movements. Through a close reading of critical race theorist Kimberle Williams Crenshaw's germinal texts, published more than twenty-five years ago, Carastathis urges analytic clarity, contextual rigor, and a politicized, historicized understanding of this widely traveling concept. Intersectionality's roots in social justice movements and critical intellectual projects--specifically Black feminism--must be retraced and synthesized with a decolonial analysis so its radical potential to actualize coalitions can be enacted"-- Provided by publisher.Summary: "Intersectionality critically examines the mainstreaming and institutionalization of this concept, offering a renewed understanding through close readings of some of its generative texts"-- Provided by publisher.
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"Intersectionality intervenes in the field of intersectionality studies: the integrative examination of the effects of racial, gendered, and class power on people's lives. While "intersectionality" circulates as a buzzword, Anna Carastathis joins other critical voices to urge a more careful reading. Challenging the narratives of arrival that surround it, Carastathis argues that intersectionality is a horizon, illuminating ways of thinking that have yet to be realized; consequently, calls to "go beyond" intersectionality are premature. A provisional interpretation of intersectionality can disorient habits of essentialism, categorial purity, and prototypicality and overcome dynamics of segregation and subordination in political movements. Through a close reading of critical race theorist Kimberle Williams Crenshaw's germinal texts, published more than twenty-five years ago, Carastathis urges analytic clarity, contextual rigor, and a politicized, historicized understanding of this widely traveling concept. Intersectionality's roots in social justice movements and critical intellectual projects--specifically Black feminism--must be retraced and synthesized with a decolonial analysis so its radical potential to actualize coalitions can be enacted"-- Provided by publisher.

"Intersectionality critically examines the mainstreaming and institutionalization of this concept, offering a renewed understanding through close readings of some of its generative texts"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-261) and index.

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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Intersectionality, Black Feminist Thought, and Women-of-Color Organizing; 2. Basements and Intersections; 3. Intersectionality as a Provisional Concept; 4. Critical Engagements with Intersectionality; 5. Identities as Coalitions; 6. Intersectionality and Decolonial Feminism; Conclusion; References; Index.

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