Intersectionality Intersectionality: A Reading List What is intersectionality? Most references in intersectional scholarship point to Kimberlé Crenshaw’s 1991 Stanford Law Review article “Mapping The Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color” as the initiation of intersectionality as a concept into academia. Crenshaw combines literature on critical race theory to examine antiracist and feminist discourse on women of color as victims sexual violence, arguing that racism and sexism act as mutually interlocking systems of oppression, resulting in a form of disadvantage that affects Black women uniquely at three levels. Structural intersectionality refers to where systems of domination converge; political intersectionality addresses how individuals who identify with multiple subordinate groups may face challenges due to conflicting agendas of political discourse; and representational intersectionality involves a political discourse that acknowledges the significance of other discourses in addition to the power relations that both challenge and strengthen them. First and foremost intersectionality is a product of Black feminist thought. Any discussion of intersectionality that fails to incorporate this intellectual history lacks a fundamental understanding of its purpose. Intersectionality seems pretty popular lately in mainstream media, politics and activism. Some people have started to critique the concept, often without reference to any of the work cultivated within the field. Such 1 Intersectionality criticism suggests while interest in intersectionality is starting to pique, knowledge about intersectionality overall appears to be lacking. This reading list will help those interested in discussing intersectionality have a more holistic conversation about the topic. Books Abdelal, Rawi, Yoshiko M. Herrera, Alastair Iain Johnston, and Rose McDermott. 2009. Measuring Identity: A Guide for Social Scientists. New York: Cambridge University Press. Aldridge, Delores P. 2009. Imagine a World: Pioneering Black Women Sociologists. Bakan, Abigail B. and Enakshi Dua. 2014. Theorizing Anti-Racism: Linkages In Marxism And Critical Race Theories. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Beauboeuf-Lafontant, Tamara. 2009. Behind the Mask of the Strong Black Woman: Voice and the Embodiment of a Costly Performance. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. Collins, Patricia Hill. 2000. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge. Collins, Patricia Hill. 2004. Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism. New York: Routledge. Costanza-Chock, Sasha. 2014. Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets: Transmedia Organizing and the Immigrant Rights Movement. Cottom, Tressie McMillan. 2016. “Black CyberFeminism: Intersectionality, Institutions and Digital Sociology.” in Digital Sociologies, edited by J. Daniels, K. Gregory, and T. M. Cottom. Bristol: Policy Press. Daniels, Jessie. 2016. “‘ The Trouble with White Feminism: Whiteness, Digital Feminism and the Intersectional Internet .’” in The Intersectional Internet, Section Two: Cultural Values in the Machine. Delamater, John and Rebecca F. Plante, eds. 2015. Handbook of the Sociology of Sexualities. Switzerland: Springer. 2 Intersectionality Gray, Kishonna L. 2014. Race, Gender, and Deviance on Xbox Live. Higashida, Cheryl. 2011. Black Internationalist Feminism: Women Writers of the Black Left, 1945-1995. Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield: University of Illinois Press. Jordan-Zachery, Julia S. 2009. Black Women, Cultural Images, and Social Policy. New York: Taylor & Francis. Levitt, Jeremy I., ed. 2015. Black Women And International Law: Deliberate Interactions, Movements, And Actions. New York: Cambridge University Press. McGlotten, Shaka and Dána-Ain Davis, eds. 2012. Black Genders and Sexualities. Palgrave Macmillan. Miller-Young, Mireille. 2014. A Taste for Brown Sugar: Black Women in Pornography. Durham and London: Duke University Press. Morgan, Jennifer L. 2004. Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery. Philadelphia: University of Pennyslvania Press. Noble, Safiya Umoja and Brendesha M. Tynes. 2016. The Intersectional Internet: Race, Sex, Class and Culture Online. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc.,. Riche, Beth E. 2012. Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation. Tate, Shirley Anne. 2015. Black Women’s Bodies and The Nation: Race, Gender and Culture. London: Palgrave Macmillan,. Tobergte, David R. and Shirley Curtis. 2008. Encyclopedia of Social Problems. edited by V. N. Parrillo. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, Inc. Vera, Hernan and Joe R. Feagin, eds. 2007. Handbook of the Sociology of Racial and Ethnic Relations. New York: Springer. Weheliye, Alexander G. 2014. HABEAS VISCUS: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human. Academic Articles Acker, Joan. 2006. “Inequality Regimes: Gender, Class, and Race in Organizations.” Gender & Society 20(4):441–64. Retrieved (http://www.jstor.org/stable/27640904). 3 Intersectionality African Gender Institute. 2014. Pan-Africanism and Feminism. Alexander-Floyd, N. G. 2010. “Critical Race Black Feminism: A Jurisprudence of Resistance and the Transformationo F the Academy.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. Alexander-Floyd, Nikol G. 2012. “Disappearing Acts: Reclaiming Intersectionality in the Social Sciences in a Post-Black Feminist Era.” Feminist Formations 24(1):1–25. Retrieved (http://muse.jhu.edu/content/crossref/journals/feminist_formations/v024/24.1.alexander- floyd.html). Bailey, Moya. 2013. “New Terms of Resistance: A Response to Zenzele Isoke.” Souls 15(4): 341–43. Baker, Tamara A., Nicole T. Buchanan, Chivon A. Mingo, Rosalyn Roker, and Candace S. Brown. 2015. “Reconceptualizing Successful Aging among Black Women and the Relevance of the Strong Black Woman Archetype.” Gerontologist 55(1):51–57. Balzer, Cassandra L. 2016. “Making the Movement Matter: Conceptualizing Social Movement Success and Its Relation to Participation.” <http://publications.lakeforest.edu/cgi/ viewcontent.cgi?article=1071&context=seniortheses> Berridge, Susan and Laura Portwood-Stacer. 2015. “Feminism, Hashtags and Violence Against Women and Girls.” Feminist Media Studies 15(2):341–58. Best, Rachel Kahn, Lauren B. Edelman, Linda Hamilton Krieger, and Scott R. Eliason. 2011. “Multiple Disadvantages: An Empirical Test of Intersectionality Theory in EEO Litigation.” Law & Society Review 45(4):991–1025. Retrieved October 18, 2016 (http:// doi.wiley.com/10.1111/j.1540-5893.2011.00463.x). Blackwell, Maylei and Nadine Naber. 2002. “Intersectionality in an Era of Globalization: The Implications of the UN World Conference against Racism for Transnational Feminist Practices—A Conference Report.” Meridians 2(2):237–48. Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo. 2015. “More than Prejudice: Restatement, Reflections, and New Directions in Critical Race Theory.” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 1(1):73–87. Retrieved (http://sre.sagepub.com/content/1/1/73.abstract). Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo, Victor Ray, Rose Buckelew, and Elizabeth Freeman. 2010. “Critical Race Theories , Colorism , and the Decade ’ S Research on Families of Color.” Journal of Marriage and Family 72(June):440–59. Boylorn, Robin M. 2013. “Blackgirl Blogs, Auto/ethnography, and Crunk Feminism.” Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies 9(2):73–82. Boylorn, Robin M. 2008. “As Seen on TV: An Autoethnographic Reflection on Race and Reality Television.” Critical Studies in Media Communication 25(4):413–33. 4 Intersectionality Brah, Avtar and Ann Phoenix. 2004. “Ain’t I A Woman? Revisiting Intersectionality.” Feminist Challenges: Crossing Boundaries 5(3):75–86. Branch, Enobong Hannah. 2007. “The Creation Of Restricted Opportunity Due To The Intersection Of Race & Sex: Black Women In The Bottom Class.” Race, Gender, & Class 14(3):247–64. Brock, André. 2016. “Critical Technocultural Discourse Analysis.” New Media & Society 1–19. Retrieved (http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1461444816677532). Brown, Melissa. 2017. “The Sociology of Antiracism in Black and White.” Sociology Compass 11(2):e12451. Browne, Irene and Joya Misra. 2003. “The Intersection of Gender and Race in the Labor Market.” Annual Review of Sociology 29(1997):487–513. Retrieved (http:// proquest.umi.com/pqdweb/? did=415396831&Fmt=7&clientId=46781&RQT=309&VName=PQD). Calhoun, Craig. 2008. “Foreword: Engaging Contradictions: Theory, Politics, and Methods of Activist Scholarship.” Retrieved (http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/42316/). Carbado, Devon W. 2013. “Colorblind Intersectionality.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 38(4):811–45. Retrieved (http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/ 10.1086/669666). Chatelain, Marcia and Kaavya Asoka. 2015. “Women and Black Lives Matter.” Dissent 62(3): 54–61. Retrieved (https://muse.jhu.edu/content/crossref/journals/dissent/ v062/62.3.chatelain.html). Chesney-Lind, M. 2006. “Patriarchy, Crime, and Justice: Feminist Criminology in an Era of Backlash.” Feminist Criminology 1(1):6–26. Retrieved (http://fcx.sagepub.com/cgi/doi/ 10.1177/1557085105282893). Cho, Sumi, Kimberle Williams Crenshaw, and Leslie McCall. 2013. “Toward a Field of Intersectionality Studies: Theory, Applications, and Praxis.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 38(4):785–810. Retrieved (http://www.jstor.org/stable/ 10.1086/669608). Chong, Natividad Gutiérrez. 2014. “Human Trafficking and Sex Industry: Does Ethnicity and Race Matter?” Journal of Intercultural