{"product_id":"intersectionality-1","title":"Intersectionality","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eA 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIntersectionality\u003c\/i\u003e intervenes in the field of intersectionality studies: the integrative examination of the effects of racial, gendered, and class power on people’s lives. While “intersectionality” tends to circulate merely as a buzzword, Anna Carastathis joins other critical voices in urging a more careful reading. Challenging the narratives of arrival that surround it, Carastathis argues that intersectionality is a horizon, illuminating ways of thinking that have yet to be realized; consequently, calls to “go beyond” intersectionality are premature. A provisional interpretation of intersectionality can disorient habits of essentialism, categorical purity, and prototypicality and overcome dynamics of segregation and subordination in political movements.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Through a close reading of critical race theorist Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw’s germinal texts, published more than twenty-five years ago, Carastathis urges analytic clarity, contextual rigor, and a politicized, historicized understanding of this pervasive concept. Intersectionality’s roots in social justice movements and critical intellectual projects—specifically black feminism—must be retraced and synthesized with a decolonial analysis so that its potential to actualize coalitions can be enacted.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57508341219710,"sku":"NW9781496212481","price":26.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781496212481.jpg?v=1780557275","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/intersectionality-1","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}