Black Feminism Reimagined, Jennifer C. Nash
Black Feminism Reimagined, Jennifer C. Nash
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Black Feminism Reimagined
After Intersectionality

Author: Jennifer C. Nash

Narrator: Lisa Reneé Pitts

Unabridged: 8 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/25/2019


Synopsis

In Black Feminism Reimagined, Jennifer C. Nash reframes black feminism's engagement with intersectionality, often celebrated as its primary intellectual and political contribution to feminist theory. Charting the institutional history and contemporary uses of intersectionality in the academy, Nash outlines how women's studies has both elevated intersectionality to the discipline's primary program-building initiative and cast intersectionality as a threat to feminism's coherence. As intersectionality has become a central feminist preoccupation, Nash argues that black feminism has been marked by a single affect—defensiveness—manifested by efforts to police intersectionality's usages and circulations. Nash contends that only by letting go of this deeply alluring protectionist stance, the desire to make property of knowledge, can black feminists reimagine intellectual production in ways that unleash black feminist theory's visionary world-making possibilities.

About Jennifer C. Nash

Jennifer C. Nash is Associate Professor of African American Studies and Gender and Sexuality Studies at Northwestern University, author of The Black Body in Ecstasy: Reading Race, Reading Pornography, and editor of Gender: Love.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kevin

“. . . it is the ongoing conception that Black feminism is the exclusive territory of black women that traps and limits Black feminists and Black women academics who continue to be conscripted into performing and embodying their intellectual investments.” A dissertation on intersectional* Black femin......more

Goodreads review by K

I love Nash's ability to question the phrases we repeat without interrogating. Why does intersectionality need to be protected? Why can't we critique intersectionality? Who can critique intersectionality? How does not critiquing intersectionality hurt us? Nash asks the whys we are too afraid to ask,......more

Goodreads review by Katrina

READ IT......more