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Intersectionality and Political Economy
Accompanying Suzanna Danuta Walters’s Currents essay, “In Defense of Identity Politics“
Other Digital Archive Pages:
What Is Identity Politics? | 2016 Election | Poststructuralist & Queer | Teachable Signs Articles
Recognition/Redistribution
Nancy Fraser, “From Redistribution to Recognition? Dilemmas of Justice in a ‘Post-Socialist’ Age,” New Left Review 212 (1995): 68–93.
Judith Butler, “Merely Cultural,” New Left Review 227 (1998): 33-44.
Nancy Fraser, “Heterosexism, Misrecognition and Capitalism: A Response to Judith Butler,” New Left Review 228 (1998): 140-49.
Iris Marion Young, “Unruly Categories: A Critique of Nancy Fraser’s Dual Systems Theory,” New Left Review 222 (1997): 147–60.
Nancy Fraser, “A Rejoinder to Iris Young,” New Left Review 223 (1997): 126–29.
Intersectionality
Kimberlé Crenshaw, “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics,” University of Chicago Legal Forum 1989 (1989): 139–68.
Sumi Cho, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, and Leslie McCall, “Toward a Field of Intersectionality Studies: Theory, Applications, and Praxis,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 38, no. 4 (2013): 785–810.
Jennifer C. Nash, “Re-Thinking Intersectionality,” Feminist Review 89, no. 1 (2008): 1–15.
Jasbir Puar, “‘I Would Rather Be a Cyborg Than a Goddess’: Intersectionality, Assemblage, and Affective Politics,” Transversal (2011).
James Bliss, “Black Feminism Out of Place,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 41, no. 4 (2016): 727–49.
The Ferguson report revealed an entire scheme of municipal plunder. Anti-black policing was an economic model.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates (@tanehisicoates) December 1, 2016
Academic Articles
Elizabeth A. Armstrong and Mary Bernstein, “Culture, Power, and Institutions: A Multi-Institutional Politics Approach to Social Movements,” Sociological Theory 26, no. 1 (2008): 74–99.
Avtar Brah and Ann Phoenix, “Ain’t I A Woman? Revisiting Intersectionality,” Journal of International Women’s Studies 5, no. 3 (2013): 75–86.
Carrie Tirado Bramen, “Why the Academic Left Hates Identity Politics,” Textual Practice 16, no. 1 (2002): 1–11.
Linda Briskin, “Identity Politics and the Hierarchy of Oppression: A Comment,” Feminist Review 35 (1990): 102–8.
Anna Carastathis, “Identity Categories as Potential Coalitions,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 38, no. 4 (2013): 941–65.
Tamar W. Carroll, “Intersectionality and Identity Politics: Cross-Identity Coalitions for Progressive Social Change,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 42, no. 3 (2017): 600–607.
Rita Felski, “The Doxa of Difference,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 23, no. 1 (1997): 1–21.
Angela P. Harris, “Race and Essentialism in Feminist Legal Theory,” Stanford Law Review 42, no. 3 (1990): 581–616.
Ananta Kumar Giri, “Civil Society and the Limits of Identity Politics,” Sociological Bulletin 50, no. 2 (2001): 266–85.
bell hooks, “Essentialism and Experience,” American Literary History 3, no. 1 (1991): 172–83.
Jill C. Humphrey, “Disabled People and the Politics of Difference,” Disability & Society 14, no. 2 (1999): 173–88.
Courtney Jung, “Why Liberals Should Value ‘Identity Politics,’” Daedalus 135, no. 4 (2006): 32–39.
Deborah K. King, “Multiple Jeopardy, Multiple Consciousness: The Context of a Black Feminist Ideology,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 14, no. 1 (1988): 42–72.
Smadar Lavie, “Writing Against Identity Politics: An Essay on Gender, Race, and Bureaucratic Pain,” American Ethnologist 39, no. 4 (2012): 779–803.
Jane Roland Martin, “Methodological Essentialism, False Difference, and Other Dangerous Traps,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 19, no. 3 (1994): 630–57.
Leslie McCall, “The Complexity of Intersectionality,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 30, no. 3 (2005): 1771–1800.
Uma Narayan, “Essence of Culture and a Sense of History: A Feminist Critique of Cultural Essentialism,” Hypatia 13, no. 2 (1998): 86–106.
Joan D. Scott, “Multiculturalism and the Politics of Identity,” October 61 (1992): 12–19.
Iris Marion Young, “Gender as Seriality: Thinking about Women as a Social Collective,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 19, no. 3 (1994): 713–38.
Nira Yuval-Davis, “Intersectionality and Feminist Politics,” European Journal of Women’s Studies 13, no. 3 (2006): 193–209.
Nira Yuval‐Davis, “Intersectionality, Citizenship and Contemporary Politics of Belonging,” Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 10, no. 4 (2007): 561–74.0.
Linda M. G. Zerilli, “Toward a Feminist Theory of Judgment,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 34, no. 2 (2009): 295–317.
Books
Elisabeth Armstrong, The Retreat from Organization: U.S. Feminism Reconceptualized (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2002).
Seyla Benhabib, Democracy and Difference: Contesting the Boundaries of the Political (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996).
Seyla Benhabib, The Claims of Culture: Equality and Diversity in the Global Era (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002).
Alyson M. Cole, The Cult of True Victimhood: From the War on Welfare to the War on Terror (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007).
Patricia Hill. Collins, From Black Power to Hip Hop: Racism, Nationalism, and Feminism (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2006).
Jodi Dean, Solidarity of Strangers: Feminism after Identity Politics (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1996).
Avigail Eisenberg and Jeff Spinner-Halev, Minorities Within Minorities: Equality, Rights and Diversity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005).
Nancy Fraser, Justice Interruptus: Critical Reflections on the “Postsocialist” Condition (New York: Routledge, 1997).
Laura Gillman, Unassimilable Feminisms: Reappraising Feminist, Womanist, and Mestiza Identity Politics (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).
Barbara Hobson, ed., Recognition Struggles and Social Movements: Contested Identities, Agency and Power (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003).
bell hooks, Ain’t I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Boston: South End Press, 1981).
Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (New York: Crown Publishing Group, 1984).
Valerie Martinez-Ebers and Dorraj Manochehr, eds., Perspectives on Race, Ethnicity, and Religion: Identity Politics in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009).
Uma Narayan and Sandra Harding, eds., Decentering the Center: Philosophy for a Multicultural, Postcolonial, and Feminist World (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2000).
Uma Narayan, Dislocating Cultures: Identities, Traditions, and Third-World Feminism (New York: Routledge, 1997).
Susan Moller Okin, Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women? (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999).
Deborah Orr et al., eds., Feminist Politics: Identity, Difference, and Agency (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007).
Karen Ross, Gendered Media: Women, Men, and Identity Politics (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2010).
Ronnee Schreiber, Righting Feminism: Conservative Women and American Politics with New Epilogue (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012).
Evelyn M. Simien, Black Feminist Voices in Politics (New York: State University of New York Press, 2006).
Elizabeth V. Spelman, Inessential Woman: Problems of Exclusion in Feminist Thought (Boston: Beacon Press, 1988).
Taylor Keeanga-Yamahtta, From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation (Chicago: Haymarket Press, 2016).
Iris Marion Young and Danielle S. Allen, Justice and the Politics of Difference (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011).
Iris Marion Young, Intersecting Voices: Dilemmas of Gender, Political Philosophy, and Policy (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997).
Online Articles
Ta-Nehisi Coates, “My President Was Black,” The Atlantic, February 2017.
Brittney Cooper, “It’s Not about You, White Liberals: Why Attacks on Radical People of Color Are so Misguided,” Salon, April 8, 2014.
Brittney Cooper, “White Male Temper Tantrums: What the ‘Political Correctness’ Debate Completely Misses,” Salon, February 4, 2015.
Susan Cox, “Women’s Issues Aren’t Just ‘Identity Politics.,’” Feminist Current, November 26, 2016.
Kimberlé Crenshaw, “Why Intersectionality Can’t Wait,” The Washington Post, September 24, 2015.
Jonathon Dean, “Who’s Afraid of Identity Politics?,” London School of Economics and Political Science Blog, December 9, 2016.
Susan Faludi, "Identity Politics Gone Wrong," Radio Open Source, 2016.
Nancy Fraser, “How Feminism Became Capitalism’s Handmaiden - and How to Reclaim It,” The Guardian, October 14, 2013.
Conor Friedersdorf, “The Left’s Attack on Color-Blindness Goes Too Far,” The Atlantic, September 4, 2015.
Mikki Kendal, "#SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen: Women of Color's Issue with Digital Feminism," The Guardian, August 14, 2013.
Maisha Johnson, “What’s Wrong with Cultural Appropriation? These 9 Answers Reveal Its Harm,” Everyday Feminism, June 14, 2015.
Marcus Johnson, “Stop Calling It ‘Identity Politics’ - It’s Civil Rights,” Alternet, November 26, 2016.
Carmen Rios, “Hey, ‘Identity Politics’ Critics: Women and People of Color Need Economic Justice, Too.,” Everyday Feminism, January 11, 2017.
William Ruhm, “The ‘Identity Politics’ We’re Not Talking About,” The Feminist Wire, August 2, 2016.
Amanda Taub, “The Truth about ‘Political Correctness’ is That It Doesn’t Actually Exist,” Vox, January 28, 2015.
We Are The Left, “An Open Letter on Identity Politics, to and from the Left,” Medium, July 13, 2016.
Andrew J. Young, “Personal Is Political: Are You Doing Your Work? White Transmen Holding Ourselves Accountable to Audre Lorde’s Legacy,” The Feminist Wire, February 20, 2014.
On the Women's Strike
Interview with Nancy Fraser, Left Voice, February 27, 2017.
Linda Martín Alcoff, Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya, Nancy Fraser, Barbara Ransby, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Rasmea Yousef Odeh, and Angela Davis, "Women of America: We're Going on Strike. Join Us so Trump Will See Our Power," The Guardian, February 6, 2017.
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, "The March 8 Strike Is about Building Feminism for the 99%," interview by Sarah Jaffee, In These Times, February 28, 2017.
Cathy J. Cohen, "From Black Lives Matter to the 2016 Elections," W. E. B. DuBois 2016 Annual Lecture, University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Janet Mock speaks at the Women's March on Washington, Washington Post, January 21, 2017.