“…Context also can help answer the thorny and heated questions about the fetishization or erasure of Black women in intersectional research and theorizing. While Alexander‐Floyd takes a hard tack on this issue, arguing that intersectional research should always focus on women of color (and Black women in particular), Cooper () and Carbado () have both pointed out that limiting intersectionality to a focus on Black women has its own dangers, denying in some sense the broad‐ranging significance of these women's theoretical work for our understanding of structural inequality and power more broadly. Cooper (p. 399) writes: “We should remain skeptical of newer approaches to identity that take as their centerpiece a fundamental belief that the particularity of black women's experiences exempt black women from being the foundation on which broadly applicable theoretical frames can be built.” Women of color have built an analytical approach central to understanding societal power relations and should be recognized for this work.…”
Section: Responding To Critiques: Context‐driven Intersectionalitymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…We suggest that context‐driven intersectionality holds the theoretical integrity and promise to address the shortcomings discussed above and do exactly what alternative approaches purport to get beyond. Carbado (, p. 816) similarly argues that those who wish to replace intersectionality imply that their alternate theory “has the ability to do something that intersectionality cannot do or does considerably less well.” Carbado criticizes Puar and others for what he calls the “false necessity” of their claims: With respect to the discursive, all these theories seem to imagine the synthesis or interaction of things that are otherwise apart. In other words, at the level of appellation, they are no more dynamic than intersectionality.…”
Section: Responding To Critiques: Context‐driven Intersectionalitymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For example, in much intersectional work, Whiteness, masculinity, middle and upper social class, and heteronormativity are not interrogated. Carbado (, p. 817) observes that while White, heterosexual men are still frequently treated as unmarked in intersectional scholarship, lacking “an intersectional subject position,” this is a failure in intellectual imagination rather than an attribute of intersectionality as an analytical lens. Indeed, he compellingly demonstrates the ongoing utility of intersectionality for understanding categories of identification that have rarely faced intellectual interrogation.…”
Section: Responding To Critiques: Context‐driven Intersectionalitymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…More recently, Leisy Abrego () has shown how gender and legal status (undocumented, temporarily protected, legal resident or citizen) intersect to shape the particular experiences of Salvadoran immigrant parents and their children left behind in a range of ways. Other U.S. scholars, such as Devon Carbado () and Nikki Jones (), have drawn attention to the importance of context in their work. Carbado emphasizes unmarked context‐dependent social positions in his analysis of court cases, and Jones reveals how gender and race intersect in various ways depending on the performative context in her research on young Black women in inner city settings in San Francisco.…”
The concept of intersectionality has fundamentally changed feminist theorizing and the study of women and gender. However, intersectional research, theorizing, and practice also have been subject to important critiques. This article provides a brief genealogy of intersectionality and summarizes major critiques. We recognize value in these critiques as well as the ongoing power of an intersectional lens. We therefore advocate what we call “context‐driven intersectionality,” arguing that attention to the historical, political, economic, and social factors that shape power relationships and social structures is critical to conducting robust intersectional analyses that avoid reification of social categories and inequalities.
“…Context also can help answer the thorny and heated questions about the fetishization or erasure of Black women in intersectional research and theorizing. While Alexander‐Floyd takes a hard tack on this issue, arguing that intersectional research should always focus on women of color (and Black women in particular), Cooper () and Carbado () have both pointed out that limiting intersectionality to a focus on Black women has its own dangers, denying in some sense the broad‐ranging significance of these women's theoretical work for our understanding of structural inequality and power more broadly. Cooper (p. 399) writes: “We should remain skeptical of newer approaches to identity that take as their centerpiece a fundamental belief that the particularity of black women's experiences exempt black women from being the foundation on which broadly applicable theoretical frames can be built.” Women of color have built an analytical approach central to understanding societal power relations and should be recognized for this work.…”
Section: Responding To Critiques: Context‐driven Intersectionalitymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…We suggest that context‐driven intersectionality holds the theoretical integrity and promise to address the shortcomings discussed above and do exactly what alternative approaches purport to get beyond. Carbado (, p. 816) similarly argues that those who wish to replace intersectionality imply that their alternate theory “has the ability to do something that intersectionality cannot do or does considerably less well.” Carbado criticizes Puar and others for what he calls the “false necessity” of their claims: With respect to the discursive, all these theories seem to imagine the synthesis or interaction of things that are otherwise apart. In other words, at the level of appellation, they are no more dynamic than intersectionality.…”
Section: Responding To Critiques: Context‐driven Intersectionalitymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For example, in much intersectional work, Whiteness, masculinity, middle and upper social class, and heteronormativity are not interrogated. Carbado (, p. 817) observes that while White, heterosexual men are still frequently treated as unmarked in intersectional scholarship, lacking “an intersectional subject position,” this is a failure in intellectual imagination rather than an attribute of intersectionality as an analytical lens. Indeed, he compellingly demonstrates the ongoing utility of intersectionality for understanding categories of identification that have rarely faced intellectual interrogation.…”
Section: Responding To Critiques: Context‐driven Intersectionalitymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…More recently, Leisy Abrego () has shown how gender and legal status (undocumented, temporarily protected, legal resident or citizen) intersect to shape the particular experiences of Salvadoran immigrant parents and their children left behind in a range of ways. Other U.S. scholars, such as Devon Carbado () and Nikki Jones (), have drawn attention to the importance of context in their work. Carbado emphasizes unmarked context‐dependent social positions in his analysis of court cases, and Jones reveals how gender and race intersect in various ways depending on the performative context in her research on young Black women in inner city settings in San Francisco.…”
The concept of intersectionality has fundamentally changed feminist theorizing and the study of women and gender. However, intersectional research, theorizing, and practice also have been subject to important critiques. This article provides a brief genealogy of intersectionality and summarizes major critiques. We recognize value in these critiques as well as the ongoing power of an intersectional lens. We therefore advocate what we call “context‐driven intersectionality,” arguing that attention to the historical, political, economic, and social factors that shape power relationships and social structures is critical to conducting robust intersectional analyses that avoid reification of social categories and inequalities.
“…One problem with the reliance on the experiences of Black women for intersectionality research is that they can unintentionally reinforce the additive models that argue that multiply marginalized people always experience multiple dimensions of oppression. Thus, intersectionality often comes to be conflated with the “double jeopardy” theory, which argues that the greater number of marginal categories to which one belongs, the greater their social disadvantages will be (Carbado, ). Yet, a novel finding by Pedulla () challenges this notion that multiply marginalized people are always multiply disadvantaged.…”
Within the past few decades, there has been an explosion of articles examining “gay identity.” Yet, much of this work continues to center on the experiences of gay White men or fail to adequately examine the process of identity development, even when “identity” is central to the discussion. This review outlines 4 theoretical perspectives used to explore gay men of color and identity development. Taken together, these 4 perspectives can offer a rich opportunity to explore the ways that gay men of color come to develop an identity that simultaneously addresses their racial and sexual identities. I argue that examining identity development among gay men of color can help sociology better understand the identity process and provide new insights into examining intersectionality by demonstrating that identities are not only intersectional but also contextual.
Coronavirus 19 (COVID-19), the infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is both transforming and ending lives. In only 7 months (December 2019-July 2020), at least 11 million people have contracted the virus and over 500 000 have died (WHO, 2020). Though its impact is wide, COVID-19's illness and death tolls are felt most acutely by communities experiencing multiple and inter
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