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Taking as a start Crenshaw's point that anti-racism often fails to interrogate patriarchy and that feminism often reproduces racist practices (1991: 1252), this paper asks what are the theoretical reasons for believing that feminism and anti-racism can be regarded as fighting for the joint purpose of anti-discrimination in Europe today? And what empirical evidence may be found for such a joint approach? The paper discusses how the contemporary EU context differs from the American context, which is what prompted Crenshaw to raise the point about intersectionality, and it analyses documents and interviews from each of the two European umbrella organisations (the European Women's Lobby and the European Network against Racism), as well as a number of their national member organisations from across Europe, within both EU and non-EU member states.Crenshaw wrote in 1991 that:The failure of feminism to interrogate race means that resistance strategies of feminism will often replicate and reinforce the subordination of people of color, and the Ethnicities 13(3) 276-294

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This article is about the production of race and ethnicity in research encounters. It is based on a type of retrospective, comparative memory work, through which we analyse, compare and contrast our respective experiences of moments when race and ethnicity have been produced during our interactions with research participants. We suggest that adding memory work to the analysis of research experiences is one way of exposing the production of race and ethnicity in research interactions, and that a comparative approach to memory work can help clarify how positionalities may not always be good predictors of processes of racialisation in research situations. We also suggest that by looking for instances in which we have felt (or been made to feel) our own 'difference' or 'sameness', power or a sense disorientation, we may contribute to destabilising the categories and categorisations, which might otherwise go unquestioned in research encounters. Our analysis makes clear how we cannot assume any fixation of where, in whom, or in which topics race or ethnicity is located. We suggest that memory work is a useful tool for learning about the production of race and ethnicity, and comparative or contrastive memory work in collaboration with other researchers differently positioned from oneself is a useful approach when engaging in 'researching differences'.Please cite this article as: kennedy-macfoy, m. and Pristed Nielsen, H. (2012). "We need to talk about what race feels like!" Using memory work to analyse the production of race and ethnicity in research encounters. Qualitative Studies, 3(2): 133-149.