Transmuting Grammars of Whiteness in Third-Wave Feminism
Interrogating Postrace Histories, Postmodern Abstraction, and the Proliferation of Difference in Third-Wave Texts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2222951 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rebecca L Clark Mane (University of Washington, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 71-98 |
| Publication date | 2012-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0097-9740 • E-ISSN: 1545-6943 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/665810 |
| OpenAlex | W2173820194 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 33 |
The issues of race, inclusion, and diversity are central and contested themes in third-wave feminism. Many foundational third-wave texts suggest that race and racial justice are foregrounded in third-wave theorizing, yet women-of-color feminists and their antiracist allies have challenged this inclusive claim. A close reading of mainstream third-wave texts demonstrates that while they incorporate some ideas, theories, and bodies of women-of-color feminism, there are four key syntactical moves that contain and dilute the transformative impact of antiracist feminist scholarship and serve to maintain whiteness. These are the postrace historical narrative, the postmodern abstraction of women-of-color theories, the flattening and proliferation of difference through a long list of interchangeable elements, and irreconcilable contradiction. The second part of this article calls for a decolonial approach that recognizes the constitutive nature of race, engages in historically grounded analysis, and acknowledges alternative forms of anthologies in order to (re)open the contemporary feminist moment to the transformational potentialities of intersectional theorizing
Aesthetics · Epistemology · Feminism · Mainstream · Political science · Postmodernism · Scholarship · Sociology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Philosophy
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| Citations per year | 0,92 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2023 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |