Definitions of Intersectionality
- Fobazi Ettarh. Making a New Table: Intersectional Librarianship"Intersectionality is a tool for studying, understanding, and responding to the ways in which axes of identities intersect and how these intersections contribute to unique experiences of oppression and privilege".
- Meriam Webster Dictionary. Intersectionality"The complex, cumulative way in which the effects of multiple forms of discrimination (such as racism, sexism, and classism) combine, overlap, or intersect especially in the experiences of marginalized individuals or groups" - First used in 1989 by legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw
Crenshaw - The Urgency of Intersectionality
What is Intersectionality?
Intersectionality 101
Articles
Books in Maxwell Library
- Black LGBT Health in the United StatesCall Number: RA564.9.S49 B53Publication Date: 2016
- Identities byCall Number: HM753 .I33 2003Publication Date: 2003
- Intersectionality byCall Number: HQ1190 .C374 2016Publication Date: 2016
- Intersectionality in Action byCall Number: LC1201 .I56 2015Publication Date: 2016
- The Matrix of Race byCall Number: HT1521 .C63 2018Publication Date: 2017