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
Anna Carastathis is the codirector of the Feminist Autonomous Centre for research in Athens, Greece, where she coordinates the research area, Intersectionality: Critiques of Power and Coalitional Politics. Carastathis is the coauthor of Reproducing Refugees: Photographìa of a Crisis.
“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,
American Quarterly
"Intersectionality 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, Critical Philosophy of Race
"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, Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist
Philosophy
“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, Contemporary Sociology
"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, Journal of Folklore Research
“Anna Carastathis’s careful and sustained engagement with Kimberlé
Crenshaw’s work is uniquely illuminating and helpful.”—Zenzele
Isoke, author of Urban Black Women and the Politics of Resistance
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