Interlocking, Intersecting, and Intermeshing

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

Dados Bibliográficos

ID18955422
AutoresKathryn Sophia Belle (Pennsylvania State University, autor correspondente)
Ano2020
Volume8
Fascículo1-2
Páginas165-198
Data de publicação2020-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCritical Philosophy of Race (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2165-8684 • E-ISSN: 2165-8692
EditoraThe Pennsylvania State University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5325/critphilrace.8.1-2.0165
OpenAlexW3004525201
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas12
Referências 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