Introduction
Intersectionality
Intersectionality is “the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage; a theoretical approach based on such a premise.” - Oxford English Dictionary
"Intersectionality is a lens through which you can see where power comes and collides, where it interlocks and intersects. It’s not simply that there’s a race problem here, a gender problem here, and a class or LBGTQ problem there. Many times that framework erases what happens to people who are subject to all of these things." - Kimberle Crenshaw, "Kimberlé Crenshaw on Intersectionality, More than Two Decades Later"
Urgency of Intersectionality by Kimberle Crenshaw
"Now more than ever, it's important to look boldly at the reality of race and gender bias -- and understand how the two can combine to create even more harm. Kimberlé Crenshaw uses the term "intersectionality" to describe this phenomenon; as she says, if you're standing in the path of multiple forms of exclusion, you're likely to get hit by both. In this moving talk, she calls on us to bear witness to this reality and speak up for victims of prejudice."
This talk was presented at the TEDwomen2016 conference n October of 2016 and is featured by the editors of the TED website.
Articles
- Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color by Kimberle CrenshawCrenshaw, Kimberle. Stanford Law Review, vol. 43, no. 6, 1991, pp. 1241–1299. accessed from JSTOR through EIU license.
- Kimberlé Crenshaw on Intersectionality, More than Two Decades LaterProfessor Crenshaw coined the term and co-founded the African American Policy Forum. Before AAPF's 20th anniversary, Crenshaw reflects on where intersectionality is heading.
- The Combahee River Collective StatementPublished in 1977, The Combahee River Collective of Black feminists was founded in 1974.
"The most general statement of our politics at the present time would be that we are actively committed to struggling against racial, sexual, heterosexual, and class oppression, and see as our particular task the development of integrated analysis and practice based upon the fact that the major systems of oppression are interlocking. The synthesis of these oppressions creates the conditions of our lives. As Black women we see Black feminism as the logical political movement to combat the manifold and simultaneous oppressions that all women of color face."
Books
Borderlands/la Frontera, Third Edition by Call Number: PS3551.N95 B6 1999ISBN: 9781879960749Publication Date: 1999-05-15
Women, Race and Class by Call Number: E185.86 .D383 1983ISBN: 9780394510392Publication Date: 1981-12-01
