Blackness at the Intersection

Kimberlé W. Crenshaw is Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, USA. She is a pioneering scholar of critical race theory, who coined the term 'intersectionality'.Kehinde Andrews is Professor of Black Studies at Birmingham City University, UK. He is author of Back to Black: Retelling Black Radicalism for the 21st Century (2018), Resisting Racism: Race, Inequality and the Black Supplementary School Movement (2013) and The New Age of Empire (2021).Annabel Wilson is a sociologist. She has recently completed a PhD at Cardiff University. Annabel is a project manager and research associate on Surviving Storms: The Caribbean Cyclone Cartography project, which is based at Goldsmiths University.

• DedicationList of ContributorsTable of Contents1. Introduction: Reframing intersectionalityKimberlé Crenshaw, Kehinde Andrews and Annabel WilsonPart I: Institutional Oppressions2. Reframing intersectionality: A ‘herstory’ of my motherAnnabel Wilson 3. Herstories: Black Brazilian women narrating intersectional oppressions in the United Kingdom Katucha Bento4. (In)visible Black women (be)longing in ScotlandFrancesca SobandePart II: Marginalizing Black voices5. Freshwater fish in saltwater: Black men’s accounts navigating discriminatory waters in UK higher educationConstantino Dumangane6. ‘A sweaty concept’: Decolonizing the legacies of British slave ownership and archival space Kelena Reid7. Black crip killjoys: Dissident voices and neglected stories from the margins Viji Kuppan8. Racializing femininity Mary Igenoza9. ‘It’s not even an attitude … but a way of being!’: Negotiating Black British women’s lived experiencesDionne TaylorPart III: Counter Narratives10. Fierce intersections: Thinking through portraits of Black queeryouth in Britain Eddie Bruce-Jones and Ajamu X 11. Mediating the praxis of intersectionality: Curatorial poachingon Tumblr Kadian Pow12. Illuminating experiences among inner-city Black British singlemothers and their sons Miranda Armstrong13. ‘Stop killing the man dem’: Prospects for intersectionality Black politics Kehinde Andrews14. Blackness is the intersection Kimberlé Crenshaw, Kehinde Andrews and Annabel WilsonNotesBibliographyIndex

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