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Intersectionality : origins, contestations, horizons

Carastathis, Anna, 1981-

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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.

• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Subject: Feminist theory. / Women's studies. / Women, Black. / African Americans Race identity. / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory. / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General.
• ISBN: 9780803285552

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