Intersectionality

Naomi Zack is Professor of Philosophy at Lehman College, CUNY. She is the author of 12 monographs and 10 textbooks and edited anthologies.

• Part I: What is Intersectionality?Theory and Overview - Origins and Methods Of Intersectionality1. Intersectionality In Hollywood - Diversity and Inclusion2. # Say Her Name, #Me Too, Me Too, and Prince Harry - Strong and Weak Intersections3. Women And Racial/Ethnic Minorities During COVID-19Part II: Problems with Intersectionality and SolutionsTheory and Overview - Imperatives in the Present4. Climate Change - Women, Hunger and Famine, and Refugees5. Violence as an Intersecting Factor -Jewish Americans, Asian Americans, and School Children6. Intersections within Intersections - Transgender People, Sex Workers, Multi/Mixed Racial People, and Transracial PeoplePart III: Positive Intersections in Higher EducationTheory and Overview - Standing Intersectionality on its Head with Positive Intersections?7. Minorities and Higher Education - The Achievement Gap in Degrees and Standardized Tests8. Intersectional Structures in Higher Education - Affirmative Action And Diversity9. Class and Race in Higher Education - Cultural Capital, Leisure, and The Life Of The MindConclusion: Wide Intersectionality and Egalitarian HumanismSelect BibliographyIndex

Intersectionality is particularly rich in thoughtful discussions of the many and very real contexts and intersections that we find in the contemporary world, from racial violence to labor conditions under COVID-19 to the violence children have to endure in a country where school shootings are the norm and not the exception.