![]() This initial insight that both race and gender intersected reflected a methodology of bottom-up theorizing to address social problems. Black women could see, feel, and experience how the treatment of their bodies as simultaneously raced and gendered shaped the contours of their subordination. In Black Feminist Thought, I analyzed how African-American women resisted the dehumanization of chattel slavery by producing a self-defined oppositional knowledge. My intellectual journey to intersectionality informs this current book. But what role does knowledge play in such resistance? Throughout my intellectual work, I return to this core question by examining how individuals and groups who are oppressed within systems of power create and pass on knowledge that fosters their survival, resilience, and resistance. ![]() Whether visible or not, resistance to unjust power relations of race, class, and gender always exists, whether through faint memory or televised social protest. Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory (Duke University Press, 2019, henceforth IACST) investigates how knowledge has been essential for resisting political domination. ![]()
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