Intersectionality for the Global Age

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Notes

¹ Kimberlé Crenshaw, “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine,” University of Chicago Legal Forum 140 (1989), pp. 139–168.

² Devon W. Carbado, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Vickie M. Mays, and Barbara Tomlinson, “Intersectionality: Mapping the Movements of a Theory,” Du Bois Review 10:2 (2013), pp. 303–312.

³ United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, “Population Facts,” 2 (September 2013), available online at: <http://esa.un.org/unmigration/documents/The_number_of_international_migrants.pdf>.

⁴ Kimberlé Crenshaw, “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color,” Stanford Law Review 43:6 (1991), pp. 1241–1299.

⁵ For responses to such claims, see, for instance, Mary Hawkesworth, “The Semiotics of Premature Burial: Feminism in a Postfeminist Age,” Signs 29:4 (2004), pp. 961–985; Nikol Alexander-Floyd, “Disappearing Acts: Reclaiming Intersectionality in the Social Sciences in a Post-Black Feminist Era,” Feminist Formations 24:1 (2012), pp. 1–25.

⁶ National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, “Domestic Violence Facts,” available online at: <http://www.ncadv.org/learn/statistics>.

⁷ The Sentencing Project, available online at: <http://www.sentencingproject.org/template/page.cfm?id=122>.

⁸ Ange-Marie Hancock, Solidarity Politics for Millennials: A Guide to Ending the Oppression Olympics (New York: Palgrave, 2011), pp. 42–43.

⁹ Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa (eds), This Bridge Called My Back: Writings By Radical Women of Color (New York: Kitchen Table Women of Color Press, 1983).

¹⁰ Cherríe Moraga, "Catching Fire: Preface to the Fourth Edition," in Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa (eds), This Bridge Called My Back: Writings By Radical Women of Color, 4th ed. (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2015), p. xix.

¹¹ Estelle B. Freedman, The Essential Feminist Reader (New York: The Modern Library, 2007), pp. 284–285.

¹² Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Words of Fire: An Anthology of African American Feminist Thought (New York: The New Press, 1995), pp. 234–235.

¹³ Ange-Marie Hancock, Intersectionality: An Intellectual History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), p. 25.

¹⁴ Other journals with special editions on intersectionality include: European Journal of Women’s Studies 13:3 (August 2006); Sex Roles 59:5 (September 2008); Critical Reviews on Latin American Research 1:1 (2011); Political Research Quarterly 64 (March 2011).

¹⁵ Hancock, Solidarity Politics for Millennials, p. 43.

¹⁶ Crenshaw, “Mapping the Margins,” pp. 1241–1299.

¹⁷ Hancock, Solidarity Politics for Millennials.

¹⁸ In Fernandes’ example, she is discussing class, gender, caste, and religion.