Chicanas/Latinas Advance Intersectional Thought and Practice

Abstract

Despite the considerable body of scholarship and practice on interconnected systems of dominance and its effects on women in different social locations, Chicanas remain “outside the frame” of mainstream academic feminist dialogues. This article provides an overview of the contributions of Chicana intersectional thought, research, and activism. We highlight four major scholarly areas of contribution: borders, identities, institutional inequalities, and praxis. Although not a full mapping of the Chicana/Latina presence in intersectionality, it proffers the distinctive features and themes defining the intersectional terrain of Chicana feminism.

Counterspaces as sites of fostering and amplifying community college Latinas’ resistance narratives in STEM.

“…This recognition of marginalization as a process also allows for an understanding of how marginalization and oppression can be undone through empowerment and resistance (Collins, 2000). Intersectionality also views individual lived experiences as valid and powerful windows into broader societal phenomena that can illuminate how multiple intersecting systems of oppression and privilege create and perpetuate conditions of marginalization (Collins, 2000;Crenshaw, 1991;Zinn & Zambrana, 2019). Thus, this perspective is well-suited for investigating how Latinas pursuing STEM in and through community college are experiencing and resisting multiple forms of marginalization supported by a counterspace that is acting as a source of empowerment.…”

Who Knows? Reflexivity in Feminist Standpoint Theory and Bourdieu

“…Objective social science, according to Sandra Harding ([1991] 2016), does not require relinquishing politics or experiences but, rather, turning back on experience to expose ideological blind spots. The goal is to challenge “epistemic inequality” based on the exclusion of certain groups’ lived realities (Baca Zinn and Zambrana 2019).…”

The Use of Structural Intersectionality as a Method to Analyze How the Domestic Violence Civil Protective Order Process Replicates Inequality

“…I explicitly acknowledge my debt to these scholars and activists, yet due to space constraints, I cannot engage with all their work in this article. Instead, I refer readers to recent books and articles which provide a history of intersectionality, including Baca Zinn and Zambrana (2017), Carastathis (2019), Collins (2015), Collins and Bilge (2016), Hancock (2015), May (2015), Nash (2018), and Potter (2015), whose book disrupts traditional criminological scholarship using intersectionality and provides important examples of intersectional criminological research.…”