Du Bois Review Social Science Research on Race· 2013Q1
INTERSECTIONALITY UNDONE
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Contemporary feminist academic debates are "depoliticizing intersectionality" by reframing it as a purely academic exercise and obscuring its critical potential for social justice.
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Key points
- Academic feminism is "depoliticizing intersectionality" by neutralizing its critical potential.
- Intersectionality is being confined to an academic exercise of metatheoretical contemplation.
- Claims that intersectionality is the "brainchild of feminism" and require a "broader genealogy" serve to "whiten" it and obscure its origins.
- These trends undermine intersectionality's utility for social justice-oriented change.
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Abstract
Abstract This article identifies a set of power relations within contemporary feminist academic debates on intersectionality that work to “depoliticizing intersectionality,” neutralizing the critical potential of intersectionality for social justice-oriented change. At a time when intersectionality has received unprecedented international acclaim within feminist academic circles, a specifically disciplinary academic feminism in tune with the neoliberal knowledge economy engages in argumentative practices that reframe and undermine it. This article analyzes several specific trends in debate that neutralize the political potential of intersectionality, such as confining intersectionality to an academic exercise of metatheoretical contemplation, as well as “whitening intersectionality” through claims that intersectionality is “ the brainchild of feminism ” and requires a reformulated “ broader genealogy of intersectionality .”
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