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Advice to academics: competent citational practice should lead you to cite the Combahee River Collective statement (1977) and other Black feminist texts when thinking through intersectionality and identity politics. @CarwilBJ/1462812157213609992Permalink On twitter.com
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If you want to cite the _term_ "intersectionality," go first to Kimberle Crenshaw, but if your looking at this _concept,_ you can go back to the 1970s.Permalink On twitter.com
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CRC statement: “We also often find it difficult to separate race from class from sex oppression because in our lives they are most often experienced simultaneously. We know that there is such a thing as racial-sexual oppression which is neither solely racial nor solely sexual”Permalink On twitter.com
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See also: Audre Lorde, "Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference" (1980/84); Angela Davis, _Women, Race, and Class_ (1981/83).Permalink On twitter.com
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And if you want to go earlier, there is Toni Cade's The Black Woman: An Anthology.Permalink On twitter.com
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One common denominator of these pieces, they are written in struggle and presume an anticapitalist orientation.Permalink On twitter.com
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So it is deeply galling to encounter readings of intersectionality that treat it as a diversion from class politics.On twitter.com
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Combahee statement: “we are actively committed to struggling against racial, sexual, heterosexual, and class oppression, and see as our particular task the development of integrated analysis and practice based upon the fact that the major systems of oppression are interlocking.”Permalink On twitter.com
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For a synthetic intersectional theory not crafted by Black women, but the combined authorship of seven white and Black socialists, anarchists, feminists, there is Liberating Theory (1986). archive.org/details/liberatingtheory00albePermalink On twitter.com