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Intersectionality
Anna Carastathis
其他書名
Origins, Contestations, Horizons
出版U of Nebraska Press, 2016-11-01
主題Social Science / Feminism & Feminist TheorySocial Science / Ethnic Studies / African American StudiesSocial Science / Ethnic Studies / GeneralSocial Science / Women's Studies
ISBN08032966499780803296640
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=FuYbDQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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” 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 Kimberlé 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.