Date: 2020
Type: Article
Escaping the intersection : writing the history of black women in the United States since 1989
Vingtième siècle, 2020, No. 146, pp. 139-151
GOMIS, Christelle, Escaping the intersection : writing the history of black women in the United States since 1989, Vingtième siècle, 2020, No. 146, pp. 139-151
- https://hdl.handle.net/1814/70123
Retrieved from Cadmus, EUI Research Repository
Seemingly ubiquitous in American academic research, the concept of intersectionality has become one of the main ways to theorize and describe power hierarchies. But this growing field of research is nonetheless also accused of reifying the modes of social identification that it presumes to challenge. Yet, most critics categorically refuse to consider its heuristic uses. Analyzing intersectionality as a catalyst for historiographical change, this article argues that intersectional thinking has helped to unearth the intellectual and political contributions of Black women since 1989. This article focuse on three important historical moments in the United States: the debates over the 15th Amendment at the end of the 19th century; the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955; and the war on poverty in the 1960s and 1970s.
Additional information:
First published online: April 2020
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/70123
ISSN: 0294-1759; 1950-6678
Publisher: Presses de Sciences Po
Files associated with this item
Files | Size | Format | View |
---|---|---|---|
There are no files associated with this item. |