Black Feminism Reimagined - After Intersectionality

In Black Feminism Reimagined Jennifer C. Nash reframes black feminism's engagement with intersectionality, often celebrated as its primary intellectual and political contribution to feminist theory. Charting the institutional history and contemporary uses of intersectionality in the academy, Nash outlines how women's studies has both elevated intersectionality to the discipline's primary program-building initiative and cast intersectionality as a threat to feminism's coherence. As intersectionality has become a central feminist preoccupation, Nash argues that black feminism has been marked by a single affect-defensiveness-manifested by efforts to police intersectionality's usages and circulations. Nash contends that only by letting go of this deeply alluring protectionist stance, the desire to make property of knowledge, can black feminists reimagine intellectual production in ways that unleash black feminist theory's visionary world-making possibilities.

List of contents

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction: Feeling Black Feminism  1
1. A Love Letter from a Critic, or Notes on the Intersectionality Wars  33
2. The Politics of Reading  59
3. Surrender  81
4. Love in the Time of Death  111
Coda: Some of Us are Tired  133
Notes  139
Bibliography  157
Index  165

About the author

Jennifer C. Nash

Summary

Jennifer C. Nash reframes black feminism's engagement with intersectionality, contending that black feminists should let go of their possession and policing of the concept in order to better unleash black feminist theory's visionary and world-making possibilities.

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer C. Nash
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9781478000594
• ISBN: 978-1-4780-0059-4
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies; Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Soziologie, Feminismus, Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte, Ethnic Studies, Soziale und ethische Themen, Frauenbewegung / Feminismus, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies