Intersectionality: Origins, Contestations, Horizons

di Anna Carastathis (Autore)

University of Nebraska Press, 2019

A 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title 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" tends to circulate merely as a buzzword, Anna Carastathis joins other critical voices in urging 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, categorical 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 pervasive 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 that its potential to actualize coalitions can be enacted.

• Autore: Anna Carastathis
• Editore: University of Nebraska Press
• Collana: Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
• Anno: 2019
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 300 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 152 mm
• EAN: 9781496212481

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