Black Intersectionalities: A Critique for the 21st Century
Monica Michlin and Jean-Paul Rocchi
Abstract
Black Intersectionalities goes beyond conventional identity studies to offer a critique of identity categories themselves. Markers of identity are too often assigned, examined, and theorized as definitive binaries that fail to take into account the dynamism of individuality and its relationship to the social whole, relegating people to either male or female, straight or gay, black or white, and so on. Focusing on the way identity is both constructed and constructive, the authors in this collection progress beyond prescribed categories, seeking to develop new types of interdisciplinary framewor ... More
Black Intersectionalities goes beyond conventional identity studies to offer a critique of identity categories themselves. Markers of identity are too often assigned, examined, and theorized as definitive binaries that fail to take into account the dynamism of individuality and its relationship to the social whole, relegating people to either male or female, straight or gay, black or white, and so on. Focusing on the way identity is both constructed and constructive, the authors in this collection progress beyond prescribed categories, seeking to develop new types of interdisciplinary frameworks in which subjective and political spaces can at once be universalized and kept particular. In doing so they offer a truer concept of identity – as imagined, plural, and continuously shifting.
Keywords:
black being,
blackness,
black feminism,
gender,
identity,
intersectionality,
queer,
race,
sexuality,
theory
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2014 |
Print ISBN-13: 9781846319389 |
| Published to Liverpool Scholarship Online: May 2014 |
DOI:10.5949/liverpool/9781846319389.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Monica Michlin, editor
Universite Paris-Sorbonne
Jean-Paul Rocchi, editor
Universite Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallee
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