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Black Intersectionalities: A Critique for the 21st Century

Black Intersectionalities: A Critique for the 21st Century

Paperback

Series: Forecaast (Forum for European Contributions to African American Studies), Book 1

General Gender StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1800348959
ISBN13: 9781800348950
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: Feb 2 2021
Pages: 258
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Black Intersectionalities: A Critique for the 21st Century explores the complex interrelationships between race, gender, and sex as these are conceptualised within contemporary thought. Markers of identity are too often isolated and presented as definitive, then examined and theorised, a process that further naturalises their absoluteness; thus socially generated constructs become socialising categories that assume coercive power. The resulting set of oppositions isolate and delimit: male or female, black or white, straight or gay. A new kind of intervention is needed, an intervention that recognises the validity of the researcher's own self-reflexivity. Focusing on the way identity is both constructed and constructive, the collection examines the frameworks and practices that deny transgressive possibilities. It seeks to engage in a consciousness raising exercise that documents the damaging nature of assigned social positions and either/or identity constructions. It seeks to

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