Blackness at the Intersection

Kimberlé W. Crenshaw is Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, USA. She is a pioneering scholar of critical race theory, who coined the term 'intersectionality'.Kehinde Andrews is Professor of Black Studies at Birmingham City University, UK. He is author of Back to Black: Retelling Black Radicalism for the 21st Century (2018), Resisting Racism: Race, Inequality and the Black Supplementary School Movement (2013) and The New Age of Empire (2021).Annabel Wilson is a sociologist. She has recently completed a PhD at Cardiff University. Annabel is a project manager and research associate on Surviving Storms: The Caribbean Cyclone Cartography project, which is based at Goldsmiths University.

A ground-breaking collection applying Crenshaw's concept of intersectionality to the black diasporic experience in Britain.In the 1980s, Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw first coined the term 'intersectionality'. Since then, the concept has spread across national and disciplinary boundaries, and has had a transformative impact on the way in which we understand identity and the experience of discrimination. But outside the US, the application of intersectional theory has largely been disconnected from any analysis of 'Blackness', despite intersectionality's origins in critical race theory (CRT).Curated by Crenshaw, Andrews and Wilson as well as several of the leading scholars of CRT, this collection bridges that gap, and is the first to apply both these concepts to contexts outside the US. Focusing on Blackness in Britain, the contributors examine how scholars and activists are employing intersectionality to foreground Black British experiences. Its essays encompass key issues such as gender and Black womanhood, issues of representation within contemporary British culture, and the position of Black Britons within institutions such as the family, education and health. The book also looks to the role intersectionality can play in shaping future political activism, and in forging links beyond 'Blackness' to other social movements.

Offers a practical, activist-oriented approach alongside its scholarly analysis, looking at how intersectionality can inform more effective approaches to social justice activism in the UK and beyond.

DedicationList of ContributorsTable of Contents1. Introduction: Reframing intersectionalityKimberlé Crenshaw, Kehinde Andrews and Annabel WilsonPart I: Institutional Oppressions2. Reframing intersectionality: A 'herstory' of my motherAnnabel Wilson3. Herstories: Black Brazilian women narrating intersectional oppressions in the United KingdomKatucha Bento4. (In)visible Black women (be)longing in ScotlandFrancesca SobandePart II: Marginalizing Black voices5. Freshwater fish in saltwater: Black men's accounts navigating discriminatory waters in UK higher educationConstantino Dumangane6. 'A sweaty concept': Decolonizing the legacies of British slave ownership and archival spaceKelena Reid7. Black crip killjoys: Dissident voices and neglected stories from the marginsViji Kuppan8. Racializing femininityMary Igenoza9. 'It's not even an attitude . but a way of being!': Negotiating Black British women's lived experiencesDionne TaylorPart III: Counter Narratives10. Fierce intersections: Thinking through portraits of Black queeryouth in BritainEddie Bruce-Jones and Ajamu X11. Mediating the praxis of intersectionality: Curatorial poachingon TumblrKadian Pow12. Illuminating experiences among inner-city Black British singlemothers and their sonsMiranda Armstrong13. 'Stop killing the man dem': Prospects for intersectionality Black politicsKehinde Andrews14. Blackness is the intersectionKimberlé Crenshaw, Kehinde Andrews and Annabel WilsonNotesBibliographyIndex