Colorblind Intersectionality

Carbado, Devon W.

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“…A focus on structure encourages scholars, practitioners, and activists to re-orient attention away from identity in and of itself and toward identities in structural contextidentities in relationship to the systems of power that engender them. For example, Carbado (2013) has asserted that:…”

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The Problem with the Phrase “Intersecting Identities”: LGBT Affirmative Therapy, Intersectionality, and Neoliberalism

Grzanka

Miles

2016

Sex Res Soc Policy

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Since the declassification of homosexuality as a mental illness in 1973, psychology has transformed the way it approaches sexual orientation and gender identity issues in scientific research and clinical practice. The paradigmatic shift from psychopathology to identity has corresponded with the introduction of BLGBT affirmative therapy,^which suggests that therapists should affirm clients' sexual orientations rather than reinforce sexual minorities' experiences of stigma and marginalization. This qualitative study used a subset of psychotherapy training videos about LGBT issues to explore the form of content of LGBT affirmative therapy in the context of increased attention to identity and multiculturalism in applied psychology. The videos suggest that multiculturally competent therapists should understand sexuality and gender issues in terms of what psychologists call Bmultiple^or Bintersecting^identities, namely race and ethnicity. While the multicultural turn in psychotherapy may signal a transformation in mental health service provision, our analysis questions whether these videos may unintentionally reflect a neoliberal logic of inclusion that obscures the structural dimensions of social inequality. We suggest that the uptake of intersectionality-like identitarian discourse in psychotherapy in particular offers opportunities for challenging and reinforcing neoliberalism.

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The Problem with the Phrase “Intersecting Identities”: LGBT Affirmative Therapy, Intersectionality, and Neoliberalism

Grzanka

Miles

2016

Sex Res Soc Policy

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“…In a retrospective piece, Chandra Mohanty (2013), a groundbreaking leader within transnational feminism, describes how her own work on feminism and intersectionality has been misrecognized and misappropriated within contemporary academic politics. Said did revisit his earlier ideas about traveling theory to articulate another possibility, namely, that theories can become changed in positive ways as they travel (Carbado 2013). The contemporary legitimation of intersectionality may be one such benefit.…”

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Intersectionality's Definitional Dilemmas

2015

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The term intersectionality references the critical insight that race, class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, nation, ability, and age operate not as unitary, mutually exclusive entities, but rather as reciprocally constructing phenomena. Despite this general consensus, definitions of what counts as intersectionality are far from clear. In this article, I analyze intersectionality as a knowledge project whose raison d'être lies in its attentiveness to power relations and social inequalities. I examine three interdependent sets of concerns: (a) intersectionality as a field of study that is situated within the power relations that it studies; (b) intersectionality as an analytical strategy that provides new angles of vision on social phenomena; and (c) intersectionality as critical praxis that informs social justice projects.

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“…Despite these criticisms, intersectionality is referred to regularly and is familiar to many social science disciplines, including geography. Cho et al (2013: 785) note that there is 'a burgeoning field of intersectional studies ' and Hancock (2016: 12) expresses concern about 'intersectionality's travel (both geographic and disciplinary) as replicating the very hegemonic politics that intersectionality was created to fight against' (see also Carbado, 2013;Lewis, 2013). I am sensitive to Hancock's (2016: 23) discussion of 'an interpretive community' which has been 'entrusted with the care of such a precious and complicated phenomenon like intersectionality'; geographers are permitted to use intersectionality but must do so ethically and with care.…”

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Social geography I: Intersectionality

Hopkins

2017

Progress in Human Geography

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Intersectionality is an approach to research that focuses upon mutually constitutive forms of social oppression rather than on single axes of difference. Intersectionality is not only about multiple identities but is about relationality, social context, power relations, complexity, social justice and inequalities. This report reflects upon the use of intersectionality in social geography and emphasizes the complex histories of intersectionality that are often overlooked in geography. I argue for a greater embrace of the contribution of black feminists and some of the earliest work in geography taking an intersectional perspective. I also argue for intersectionality to be used ethically and with care in geography, rather than it being deployed in a way that unwittingly reproduces a white, colonialist, racist and masculinist discipline. I explore possible avenues for future research about intersectionality in social geographies including a focus upon residential segregation, transnational migration and embodiment.

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Colorblind Intersectionality

Cited by 285 publications

References 11 publications

The Problem with the Phrase “Intersecting Identities”: LGBT Affirmative Therapy, Intersectionality, and Neoliberalism

The Problem with the Phrase “Intersecting Identities”: LGBT Affirmative Therapy, Intersectionality, and Neoliberalism

Intersectionality's Definitional Dilemmas

Social geography I: Intersectionality

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