Blackness at the Intersection Book Launch

***Books will be on sale on the day***

Join us for the book launch o Blackness at the Intersection. A ground-breaking collection applying Crenshaw’s concept of intersectionality to the black diasporic experience in Britain. In the 1980s, Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw first coined the term ‘intersectionality’. Since then, the concept has spread across national and disciplinary boundaries, and has had a transformative impact on the way in which we understand identity and the experience of discrimination. But outside the US, the application of intersectional theory has largely been disconnected from any analysis of ‘Blackness’, despite intersectionality’s origins in critical race theory (CRT). Curated by Crenshaw, Andrews and Wilson as well as several of the leading scholars of CRT, this collection bridges that gap, and is the first to apply both these concepts to contexts outside the US. Focusing on Blackness in Britain, the contributors examine how scholars and activists are employing intersectionality to foreground Black British experiences. Its essays encompass key issues such as gender and Black womanhood, issues of representation within contemporary British culture, and the position of Black Britons within institutions such as the family, education and health. The book also looks to the role intersectionality can play in shaping future political activism, and in forging links beyond ‘Blackness’ to other social movements.

1. Introduction: Reframing intersectionality
Kimberlé Crenshaw, Kehinde Andrews and Annabel Wilson

Part I: Institutional Oppressions

2. Reframing intersectionality: A 'herstory' of my mother
Annabel Wilson

3. Herstories: Black Brazilian women narrating intersectional oppressions in the United Kingdom
Katucha Bento

4. (In)visible Black women (be)longing in Scotland
Francesca Sobande

Part II: Marginalizing Black voices

5. Freshwater fish in saltwater: Black men's accounts navigating discriminatory waters in UK higher education
Constantino Dumangane

6. 'A sweaty concept': Decolonizing the legacies of British slave ownership and archival space
Kelena Reid

7. Black crip killjoys: Dissident voices and neglected stories from the margins
Viji Kuppan

8. Racializing femininity
Mary Igenoza

9. 'It's not even an attitude … but a way of being!': Negotiating Black British women's lived experiences
Dionne Taylor

Part III: Counter Narratives

10. Fierce intersections: Thinking through portraits of Black queer
youth in Britain
Eddie Bruce-Jones and Ajamu X

11. Mediating the praxis of intersectionality: Curatorial poaching
on Tumblr
Kadian Pow

12. Illuminating experiences among inner-city Black British single
mothers and their sons
Miranda Armstrong

13. 'Stop killing the man dem': Prospects for intersectionality Black politics
Kehinde Andrews

14. Blackness is the intersection
Kimberlé Crenshaw, Kehinde Andrews and Annabel Wilson