Kevin's Reviews > Black Feminism Reimagined: After Intersectionality

“. . . it is the ongoing conception that Black feminism is the exclusive territory of black women that traps and limits Black feminists and Black women academics who continue to be conscripted into performing and embodying their intellectual investments.”

A dissertation on intersectional* Black feminism, its history, its structure, and its struggles, from Duke University Professor Jennifer Nash.

Straight Outta’ Academia

Although she most often refers to intersectionalism as an analytic Dr. Nash also references it as an act, an argument, an analysis, a theory, a category, a concept, a constraint, a descriptor, a discipline, a foundation, a framework, an identity, an instrument, an intervention, a point of entry, a practice, a system, a tool, a tradition, and a “territory under siege” (just to name a few). To call this an intense study in Black feminism would be an understatement. Sit down, saddle up, and be prepared to take notes.
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*”Intersectionality is a term first coined in 1989 by American civil rights advocate and leading scholar of critical race theory, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw. It is the study of overlapping or intersecting social identities and related systems of oppression, domination, or discrimination.” -Research Guide, First Year Studies, Syracuse University