TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carastathis,Anna
TI  - Intersectionality: origins, contestations, horizons 
T2  - Expanding frontiers, interdisciplinary approaches to studies of women, gender, and sexuality
AV  - HQ1190 .I584 2016
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Lincoln
PB  - University of Nebraska Press
KW  - Feminist theory
KW  - Women's studies
KW  - Women, Black
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Race identity
KW  - Intersectionality (Sociology)
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - "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"--; "Intersectionality critically examines the mainstreaming and institutionalization of this concept, offering a renewed understanding through close readings of some of its generative texts"--
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