Interlocking, Intersecting, and Intermeshing

Critical Engagements with Black and Latina Feminist Paradigms of Identity and Oppression

Datos Bibliográficos

ID18955422
AutoresKathryn Sophia Belle (Pennsylvania State University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2020
Volumen8
Número1-2
Páginas165-198
Fecha de publicación2020-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCritical Philosophy of Race (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2165-8684 • E-ISSN: 2165-8692
EditorialThe Pennsylvania State University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5325/critphilrace.8.1-2.0165
OpenAlexW3004525201
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas12
Referencias citadas18

Inspired by Mariana Ortega's invitation to reflect on diverse iterations of intersectionality, this article focuses on María Lugones's engagements with two Black feminist concepts, namely, interlocking oppressions (as articulated by Barbara Smith, Beverley Smith, and Demita Frazier) and intersectionality (as articulated by Kimberlé Crenshaw). It explores these concepts alongside Lugones's use of her own terms such as intermeshed, curdling, multiplicity, and fusion, in several paradigm shifting essays, specifically, “Purity, Impurity, and Separation” (1994 and 2003), “Tactical Strategies of the Street Walker” (2003), “On Complex Communication” (2006), “Heterosexism and the Colonial/Modern Gender System” (2007), “Toward a Decolonial Feminism” (2010), “Methodological Notes Toward a Decolonial Feminism” (2011), and “Radical Multiculturalism and Women of Color Feminisms” (2014). It also underscores Ortega's important contributions bringing these Black and Latina feminist concepts together in philosophically productive ways—in a spirit of collaboration and coalition rather than zero-sum competition

Aesthetics · Art · Identity (music) · Oppression · Political science · Sociology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Studies · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Race, History, and American Society