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Here's What Black Scholars Have To Say About The AP African American Studies Backlash  2/17/2023 The Root: "Dr. Michael Ralph, Chair "of Howard’s Afro-American Studies, echoes Jeffries’ concerns about the absence of Crenshaw and other Black feminist and intersectional scholarship and movement work in the course. “Crenshaw’s concept of intersectionality is one of the most important and most influential contributions to social science and social theory we have yet seen,” says Dr. Ralph. Getting rid of these intersectional voices, especially the voices of LGBTQ+ and women Black scholars who might be considered controversial, is a massive loss, says Howard Professor Jo Von McCalester."

Kimberlé Crenshaw calls changes to AP African American studies class ‘a shame’  2/15/2023 The Hill: "“Intersectionality is a uniting framework. People seek common cause with each other,” Crenshaw said. “So the reality is that Black people are not just straight, they’re not just men, they’re not just middle class.” “When we expand our understanding of Black reality to include the way the patriarchy, homophobia, class shapes our reality so we can better transform it, it means that we have connections with other movements and other people,” Crenshaw told Sharpton. “And that is exactly why they’re trying to force us to give up intersectionality and that’s why it’s a shame that the College Board went along with it.”"

After caving to DeSantis on AP Black Studies, the College Board lied about their contacts  2/13/2023 LA Times: "The board asserts that the changes made in the curriculum before it was finalized constitute “a significant improvement, rather than a watering down.” Scholars may come to their own conclusions about that. But given that (according to the state) the board told Florida officials in November that topics such as “systemic marginalization” and “intersectionality” — which allude to the deep-seated racism latent in American society and culture — “could not be removed” from the course, and they’re no longer required topics, it’s certainly questionable."

Caving to the right on Black history, the College Board gives a course in cowardice  2/1/2023 LA Times: "As a template, let’s use the list of “concerns” issued by Diaz on Jan. 20. Diaz complained about the inclusion in the draft curriculum of writers and social activists Kimberlé Crenshaw, Angela Davis, Roderick Ferguson, Leslie Kay Jones, bell hooks , and Robin D.G. Kelley. Every single one of them has been excised from the final version. Diaz’s list objected to the treatment, or even inclusion, of topics including the reparation debate, movements such as Black Lives Matter, Black Queer studies and “intersectionality,” which places racism and discrimination in a broadly social context. Those topics have all been downgraded from required topics to “sample project topics” — that is, optional topics that fall outside requirements and won’t appear on the AP test. Those topics, the curriculum says, “can be refined by states and districts.” Here’s a safe bet: None of them will be taught in Florida schools."

College Board unveils official framework for new AP African American studies course  2/1/2023 CNN: "The topics that raised the concerns of the DeSantis administration were intersectionality and activism, Black queer studies, Movements for Black Lives, Black feminist literary thought, reparations, and Black study and Black struggle in the 21st century. Many of the objections were tied to the inclusion of texts from modern Black thought leaders and history teachers, whose writings the DeSantis administration believes violate state laws. Black Lives Matter, the Movement of Black Lives or the case for reparations were not included in the official course framework released on Wednesday. None of the authors listed as concerning by Florida education officials are included in the required readings of the final framework."

Florida Explains Why It Blocked Black History Class—and It’s a Doozy  1/20/2023 Daily Beast: "The Florida Department of Education says it banned AP African American History because it teaches students about activism, intersectionality and encourages “ending the war on Black trans, queer, gender non-conforming, and intersex people,” according to a document the department sent to The Daily Beast."

Rejected African American Studies Course in Florida Features CRT, Intersectionality and Queer Theory  1/19/2023 Florida Standard: [Links to download of the full AP syllabus.] "Section 4 of the syllabus introduces the topic “Postracial Racism and Colorblindness” and features texts from Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, who employs Critical Race Theory in his writings. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva’s book Racism without Racists describes how “Whites talk, think, and account for the existence of racial inequality and makes clear that color-blind racism is as insidious now as ever.” The book’s second chapter, entitled “What is Systemic Racism? Coming to Terms with How Racism Shapes ‘All’ Whites (and Non-Whites)” explains how “all members of society participate in structural racism,” according to an online summary."

PRESENTACIÓN DEL LIBRO: INTERSECCIONALIDAD, EQUIDAD Y POLÍTICAS SOCIALES  1/15/2023 Jiribilla: Por: Ana Isabel Peñate Leiva -- "Convocado por FLACSO-Programa Cuba y la Red de Políticas Sociales de la Universidad de La Habana, tuvo lugar los días 2 y 3 de diciembre de 2021, en modalidad híbrida, el 1er Seminario internacional Interseccionalidad, equidad y políticas sociales, con el propósito de debatir sobre los aportes teóricos y metodológicos del enfoque interseccional; sistematizar críticamente resultados de investigación obtenidos a partir de este enfoque y valorar sus aportes prácticos en proyectos de desarrollo, experiencias de transformación local-comunitarias, políticas institucionales y políticas públicas. En esa ocasión, se presentaron a debate un total de 45 trabajos, de la autoría de 75 especialistas de Alemania, Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, España, México y Perú."

Interseccionalidad y afrofeminismos, dos claves para desmontar las violencias machistas  11/29/2022 Red SEMlac: "Poco a poco la mirada interseccional se incorpora al análisis social y el abordaje de las violencias machistas en Cuba. Ese empuje tiene como protagonistas a afrofeministas de la academia, espacios comunitarios, ciberactivistas, emprendedoras, artistas y creadoras. En sus más de 30 años de trabajo y activismo, la psicóloga social Norma Rita Guillard Limonta ha podido constatar las distintas formas de opresión que se cruzan en mujeres negras, lesbianas, transgénero o que viven con VIH. Si a esas características personales se le suma ser migrante, pobre, vivir con una discapacidad, ser una mujer rural o adulta mayor, pues el grado de opresión aumenta."

A debate la interseccionalidad, equidad y políticas sociales  11/24/2022 ACN: "Cienfuegos, (ACN) Amplios debates generan los temas de la interseccionalidad, equidad y políticas sociales que enmarcado en el II Seminario Internacional, por concluir hoy en Cuba, desarrollan investigadores de universidades e instituciones de varios países. La Máster en Ciencias Ileana Núñez, una de las organizadoras del encuentro, declaró a la Agencia Cubana de Noticias que éste se desarrolla en las modalidades: virtual y presencial, con sede en La Habana, y asisten especialistas de disímiles disciplinas, profesores y estudiantes de Brasil, México, Argentina, Ecuador, Paraguay y Cuba, entre otros."

Interseccionalidad (+ Video)  10/31/2022 Granma: "En palabras de Patricia Hill Collins y Sirma Bile, es un concepto según el cual: «la intersección de relaciones de poder influencia las relaciones sociales a través de las diversas sociedades, al igual que en las experiencias individuales de la vida cotidiana». Como herramienta de análisis, su campo de acción «abarca las categorías de raza, clase, género, sexualidad, nación, competencia, etnicidad y edad –entre otras– como interrelacionadas y modelándose mutuamente entre sí». La idea habla de un orden del mundo en el que el efecto de tales vínculos sobre la sociedad y la vida de los sujetos obedece a diseños, controles y procesos construidos (en lugar de enlaces naturales o casuales)."

Aprender para transformar, apuesta del activismo social  9/20/2022 Red SEMlac: "La formación y el conocimiento son claves para la transformación social en Cuba, coinciden activistas de experiencia e investigadores. “Para el trabajo con las juventudes y las luchas desde la interseccionalidad hay que prepararse. No es una moda, no es aprenderse tres frases, se necesita autopreparación”, afirma Maritza López McBean, coordinadora de la Red Barrial Afrodescendiente… La psicóloga Norma Guillard Limonta, co-coordinadora de la Red de Mujeres afrolatinas, afrocaribeñas y de la diáspora, resumió las más de tres décadas que ha dedicado al trabajo social como una experiencia de siembra para que nuevos espacios germinen."

En La Habana, I Coloquio sobre Mujeres Afrodescendientes en Cuba  7/21/2022 Tribuna: "Las brechas y desigualdades que permanecen en la sociedad para las mujeres afrodescendientes, la necesidad de complementar las políticas universales con acciones afirmativas específicas, los programas contra el racismo y la discriminación y para el adelanto de las mujeres como oportunidad, son algunos de los temas del I Coloquio sobre Mujeres, que sesiona en La Habana. Integrado en el programa de la I Jornada por el Día Internacional de las Mujeres Afrolatinas, Afrocaribeñas y de la Diáspora, el intercambio teórico se inició con las palabras de la doctora en Ciencias Yulexis Almeida Junco, vicedecana de la Facultad de Filosofía, Historia y Sociología de la Universidad de La Habana… En la conferencia inaugural Desigualdades y vulnerabilidades: análisis interseccional y prospectivo de mujeres negras cubanas, la doctora María del Carmen Zabala, profesora titular del Programa Cuba de la Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO-Cuba), defendió el enfoque interseccional para abordar esta problemática."

Memorias del 1er Seminario Internacional Interseccionalidad, equidad y políticas sociales -- Interseccionalidad, equidad y políticas sociales  12/2/2021 CLACSO: "Durante los días 2 y 3 de diciembre de 2021, este importante encuentro reunió —en modalidad híbrida— un total de 45 trabajos, de la autoría de 75 especialistas de Alemania, Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, España, México y Perú. El Grupo de Trabajo CLACSO ¿Qué Desarrollo? Diálogo academia y política, presenta una compilación de este trabajo colectivo que reúne 32 de las ponencias presentadas. Estos escritos se dividen en cinco apartados: Aportes teóricos y metodológicos del enfoque interseccional; Territorio, localidad y trabajo social comunitario; Educación; Desigualdades y políticas públicas y Riesgo, vulnerabilidad y crisis."

¿Qué es la teoría crítica de la raza y por qué causa polémica en Estados Unidos?  11/12/2021 Cubadebate: "Miles de escuelas públicas en Estados Unidos podrían perder financiamiento si enseñan a sus estudiantes sobre la historia del racismo en ese país. Protestas de padres, posibles multas a los centros educativos, incertidumbre entre los profesores, y hasta una elección perdida por los demócratas en Virginia; son expresiones recientes de un tema no resuelto, que algunos solo recuerdan cuando ocurre un incidente grave como el asesinato de George Floyd por un policía blanco."

Fragmentos de una entrevista realizada a la Dra. Geydis Fundora Nevot, profesora de FLACSO – Cuba y especialista en desigualdad, interseccionalidad y políticas de equidad  8/18/2021 Segundo Cabo: "Hay una corriente de pensamiento a la que me suscribo y que me encanta que es el feminismo decolonial, que nos hace entonces pensar a la mujer, a la mujer negra cubana, latinoamericana, desde esta perspectiva de la decolonialidad, o sea, cómo construyen una identidad que favorecía el ejercicio del poder y para qué."

En el Día Internacional de la Mujer Afrolatinoamericana, Afrocaribeña y de la Diáspora: Afrofeminismo: pensamiento y discurso afrofeminista cubano  7/23/2021 La Ventana: Por Daisy Rubiera Castillo - "El feminismo negro comprende interpretaciones de la realidad de las mujeres negras hechas por las mujeres negras; reconceptualiza una teoría y una práctica feminista alejada del etnocentrismo y el racismo, y argumenta la relación entre raza, clase y sexo (teoría de la interseccionalidad en género)."

Los estudios de las desigualdades por color de la piel en Cuba: 2008-2018  4/1/2021 Estudios del Desarrollo Social: por María del Carmen Zabala Arguelles - "El trabajo tiene como propósito analizar los resultados de un conjunto de estudios recopilados sobre las desigualdades por color de la piel en Cuba, realizados entre 2008 y 2018, período durante el cual se inicia y desarrolla un proceso de transformaciones socio-económicas en el país. Comienza con algunas precisiones conceptuales sobre raza y color de la piel, a continuación se presenta una breve referencia al contexto cubano en lo que refiere específicamente a las desigualdades sociales por color de la piel, luego algunos comentarios sobre la información recopilada y analizada; ello da paso al análisis de las brechas de equidad en diferentes ámbitos - Acceso a educación superior, Equidad y movilidad social, Percepciones y representaciones sociales, Salud y bienestar, Trabajo / empleo, Relaciones raciales y Pobreza, vulnerabilidad, exclusión social y marginación- y al análisis interseccional de las desigualdades. Como conclusiones se valoran estos resultados a partir de sus metodologías y contenidos."

The importance of Black feminism and the theory of intersectionality in analysing the position of afro descendants  7/15/2020 Int Rev Psychiatry, NIH: "This article explains the connections between the postulates of black feminism and the theory of intersectionality. It reflects how, from social thought produced in daily life, hegemonic systems such as racism and patriarchy are reproduced and configure asymmetrical social relations. Therefore, it recognises black feminism as a critical theory and anti-hegemonic social movement in favour of women and men of African descent who have developed their life experiences in a context of social injustice sustained by intersectional oppression. Emphasis is placed on the theory of intersectionality as a development of black feminism, which has transcended its origins to become a relevant model of analysis for understanding and addressing contemporary social inequalities, as well as a theoretical tool and proposal for work in different fields of knowledge, among which Psychology is noteworthy as a science that privileges the analysis of subjectivity in the individual and social order, areas in which less progress has been made in addressing the harmful effects of cross inequalities arising from racism and patriarchy in today's societies."

The intersectionality wars  5/28/2019 Vox: "In my conversations with right-wing critics of intersectionality, I’ve found that what upsets them isn’t the theory itself. Indeed, they largely agree that it accurately describes the way people from different backgrounds encounter the world. The lived experiences — and experiences of discrimination — of a black woman will be different from those of a white woman, or a black man, for example. They object to its implications, uses, and, most importantly, its consequences, what some conservatives view as the upending of racial and cultural hierarchies to create a new one. But Crenshaw isn’t seeking to build a racial hierarchy with black women at the top. Through her work, she’s attempting to demolish racial hierarchies altogether."

Intersectionality: A Marxist Critique  11/14/2018 Black Agenda Report: How to make Afrodescendants and women invisible in a Marxist context - "To assert the priority of a class analysis is not to claim that a worker is more important than a homemaker, or even that the worker primarily thinks of herself as a worker; indeed, based on her personal experience with spousal abuse or police brutality, she may well think of herself more as a woman, or a black person. It is to propose, however, that the ways in which productive human activity is organized—and, in class-based society, compels the mass of the population to be divided up into various categories in order to insure that the many will be divided from one another and will labor for the benefit of the few—this class-based organization constitutes the principal issue requiring investigation if we wish to understand the roots of social inequality."

On Embracing Intersectionality and Decolonization to Foment Personal and Societal Change  4/9/2018 Truth Out: "My choice of a complex identity as a Deaf Black Indigenous Womxn of Color (DBIWOC*) means that I equitably acknowledge and embrace the Afro-Cuban and Native aspects of myself along with the resilient experience of being a Deaf womxn. As a womxn, I am gender fluid when it comes to clothes, and I am a queer when it comes to relationships. It means I would be with a person because of the soul attraction and the way they carry themselves."

Before there was ‘intersectional feminism,’ there was the Combahee River Collective  3/1/2018 WaPo: "In a 1977 statement defining their goals, the women wrote: “The most general statement of our politics at the present time would be that we are actively committed to struggling against racial, sexual, heterosexual, and class oppression, and see as our particular task the development of integrated analysis and practice based upon the fact that the major systems of oppression are interlocking.” Today, the concept is called “intersectionality” and is the source of debate in the news media and on social media among women of color who say that mainstream feminism is still too centered on the experiences of privileged white women."

A Marxist case for intersectionality  8/1/2017 Socialist Worker: "There are two quite distinct interpretations of intersectionality: one developed by Black feminists and the other by those from the "post-structural" wing of postmodernism. I want to try to make the differences clear in this article, and explain why the Black feminist tradition advances the project of building a unified movement to fight all forms of oppression, which is central to the socialist project--while post-structuralism does not."

Kimberlé Crenshaw on Intersectionality, More than Two Decades Later  6/8/2017 Colombia Law School: "Twenty-eight years ago, Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term “intersectionality” in a paper as a way to help explain the oppression of African-American women. Crenshaw’s then somewhat academic term is now at the forefront of national conversations about racial justice, identity politics, and policing­—and over the years has helped shape legal discussions. A leading thinker and scholar in the field of critical race theory, Crenshaw, a professor at Columbia Law School, directs the Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies and is a co-founder of the African American Policy Forum, a think tank, both based on campus. On June 10, AAPF celebrates its 20th anniversary with a gala honoring U.S. Representative Keith Ellison, MSNBC journalist Joy-Ann Reid, performance artist Eve Ensler, and scholar Barbara Smith. A few days before the event, Crenshaw spoke about where she sees intersectionality research heading and her ongoing work as a scholar and advocate."

A Marxist Critiques Identity Politics  4/26/2017 Seattle Weekly: "One of them came about in the somewhat indiscriminate attack on various politicians, including Bernie Sanders, which was taken up very quickly by the Democratic elite as a way to totally discredit him by saying that he ignored race—that any kind of politics that breaks from the Hillary Clinton brand is necessarily racist and sexist. So then you get this bizarre phenomenon where Hillary Clinton is tweeting about intersectionality, and it’s very easy to get a lot of fans on social media and at universities by using that word. That was kind of an amazing moment which showed just how non-threatening this discourse is to the American ruling class."

Will Conflict over the Centrality of LGBTQ Issues Drive a Wedge in the #BlackLivesMatter Movement?  8/14/2016 Atlanta Black Star: "However, for some Black activist groups, this poses a problem. Some, including Black nationalists and cultural nationalists, believe that the movement for Black liberation should place race first, and that LGBTQ issues have no place. And they disapprove of the intersectionality of race and sexual orientation that is promoted in the movement. The division was brought to the fore in Atlanta, where a man named Sir Maejor Page was booted from the official local Black Lives Matter chapter — Black Lives Matter Atlanta — and formed his own nonprofit organization called Black Lives Matter of Greater "

Indigenous Women’s Struggles for Justice in Latin America  2/9/2015 NACLA: "Across Latin America, women are increasingly at the forefront of indigenous peoples’ struggles, challenging state violence and racial discrimination and demanding respect for collective rights to group autonomy. At the same time, they have also developed important critiques of gender violence within their communities, in particular of certain aspects of “tradition” or “culture” that reflect patriarchal gender ideologies. Drawing on the paradigm of intersectionality elaborated through the contributions of black feminism, feminism of women of color and decolonizing feminisms, indigenous women have questioned hegemonic liberal feminisms and contributed new perspectives to the international women’s movement by underlining the complex intersections between interpersonal, intra-communal, structural, and historical forms of violence. As the International Federation of Indigenous Women (FIMI) has argued, violence against indigenous women must be understood as a consequence of interrelated forms of violence, “shaped not only by gender discrimination within indigenous and non-indigenous arenas, but by a context of ongoing colonization and militarism; racism and social exclusion; and poverty-inducing economic and ‘development’ policies.”"

Black feminism and intersectionality  12/1/2013 ISR 

Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics  12/1/1989 University of Chicago Legal Forum: by Kimberlé Crenshaw, the original article on Intersectionality - "One of the very few Black women's studies books is entitled All the Women Are White; All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us are Brave.1 I have chosen this title as a point of departure in my efforts to develop a Black feminist criticism 2 because it sets forth a problematic consequence of the tendency to treat race and gender as mutually exclusive categories of experience and analysis.'"
 

Links/Enlaces

Kimberlé Crenshaw  twitter.com/sandylocks 
Intersectionality Matters with Kimberlé Crenshaw twitter.com/IMKC_podcast

Interseccionalidad, equidad y políticas sociales, prologado por la Dra. Zabala. María del Carmen Zabala Argüelles y Geydis Elena Fundora Nevot
www.clacso.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Interseccionalidad-equidad-y-politicas-sociales-2.pdf

students.wustl.edu/intersectionality-self-study-guide/

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersectionality

Intersectionality banned in Florida: HB7 ('Anti-W.O.K.E') and Cuban American Republicanismo

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva: Color Blind Racism

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