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Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory

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Author: Patricia Hill Collins

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In Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory Patricia Hill Collins offers a set of analytical tools for those wishing to develop intersectionality's capability to theorize social inequality in ways that would facilitate social change. While intersectionality helps shed light on contemporary social issues, Collins notes that it has yet to reach its full potential as a critical social theory. She contends that for intersectionality to fully realize its power, its practitioners must critically reflect on its assumptions, epistemologies, and methods. She places intersectionality in dialog with several theoretical traditions—from the Frankfurt school to black feminist thought—to sharpen its definition and foreground its singular critical purchase, thereby providing a capacious interrogation into intersectionality's potential to reshape the world.

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Publisher

Duke University Press Books

Year

2019

ISBN

9781478007098

Topic

Social Sciences

Subtopic

Feminism & Feminist Theory

Index

Social Sciences

PART 

I

Framing 

the

Issues

Intersectionality 

and

Critical 

Social 

Theory

This 

page 

intentionally 

left 

blank

1

Intersectionality 

as

Critical 

Inquiry

So

much 

has

happened 

since 

the

1990s 

that 

the

case 

for

intersectionality 

no

longer 

needs 

to

be

made. 

A

surprising 

array 

of

academics, 

activists, 

policy- 

makers, 

digital 

workers, 

and

independent 

intellectuals 

recognize 

intersec-

tionality 

as

an

important 

form 

of

critical 

inquiry 

and

praxis 

(Collins 

and

Bilge 

2016). 

Both 

within 

and

outside 

the

academy, 

administrators, 

teachers, 

social 

workers, 

counselors, 

and

public 

health 

professionals 

have 

increasingly 

used 

intersectional 

analyses 

to

shed 

light 

on

important 

social 

problems 

con-

cerning 

education, 

health, 

employment, 

and

poverty 

(Berger 

and

Guidroz 

2009; 

Dill 

and

Zambrana 

2009). 

Grassroots 

community 

activists, 

social 

media 

activists, 

and

social 

movement 

participants 

continue 

to

draw 

upon 

intersectionality’s 

ideas 

to

shape 

their 

political 

projects. 

In

the

United 

States, 

for

example, 

intersectional 

ideas 

reappear 

within 

the

social 

justice 

move-

ments 

of

African 

Americans; 

women; 

undocumented 

immigrants; 

lesbian, 