{"product_id":"intersectionality-9780803285552","title":"Intersectionality","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eA 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIntersectionality\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Through a close reading of critical race theorist Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw’s germinal texts, published more than twenty-five ye\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is, perhaps, Carastathis’s greatest insight: she urges us to think about intersectionality as a ‘profoundly destabilizing, productively disorienting, provisional concept’ whose work remains to be done. In this account, intersectionality refers to our desire to keep dreaming of a more just social world.”—Jennifer C. Nash, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eIntersectionality\u003c\/i\u003e follows a clear theoretical arc and stages multiple interventions throughout, making it a resource for one well versed in the field or encountering it for the first time.\"—Desiree Valentine, \u003ci\u003eCritical Philosophy of Race\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Anna Carastathis confronts an enduring obstacle to taking up intersectionality's potential: she illustrates how an ongoing, monist fragmentation of identities, communities, politics, and perceptions buttresses power hierarchies and reinforces exclusion by design.\"—Vivian M. May, \u003ci\u003eHypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Better theory is what Carastathis wants, and that implies for her a more fundamental critique of naturalized and essentialized groups and a ‘profoundly destabilizing, productively disorienting, provisional concept that disaggregates false unities, undermines false universalisms, and unsettles false entitlements.’”—Myra Marx Ferree, \u003ci\u003eContemporary Sociology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Carastathis’s citational practices and the subsequent conversations she generates are a vital intervention in this current moment in academia. For both novices and experts in black feminist theories, this book is a crucial review of the literature for all academics at any stage of their career, especially those scholars naming their work as 'intersectional.'\"—R. Aliah Ajamoughli, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Folklore Research\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Anna Carastathis’s careful and sustained engagement with Kimberlé Crenshaw’s work is uniquely illuminating and helpful.”—Zenzele Isoke, author of \u003ci\u003eUrban Black Women and the Politics of Resistance\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. Intersectionality, Black Feminist Thought, and Women-of-Color Organizing\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2. Basements and Intersections\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3. Intersectionality as a Provisional Concept\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4. Critical Engagements with Intersectionality\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5. Identities as Coalitions\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e6. Intersectionality and Decolonial Feminism\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReferences\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405284057431,"sku":"9780803285552","price":40.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780803285552.jpg?v=1730489490","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/intersectionality-9780803285552","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}