Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory

In Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory Patricia Hill Collins offers a set of analytical tools for those wishing to develop intersectionality's capability to theorize social inequality in ways that would facilitate social change. While intersectionality helps shed light on contemporary social issues, Collins notes that it has yet to reach its full potential as a critical social theory. She contends that for intersectionality to fully realize its power, its practitioners must critically reflect on its assumptions, epistemologies, and methods. She places intersectionality in dialog with several theoretical traditions—from the Frankfurt school to black feminist thought—to sharpen its definition and foreground its singular critical purchase, thereby providing a capacious interrogation into intersectionality's potential to reshape the world.

• Intersectionality (Key Concepts)
• Black Feminism Reimagined: After Intersectionality (Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies)
• Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Routledge Classics)
• Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement
• Breathe: A Letter to My Sons
• The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies
• Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
• Intersectionality: An Intellectual History
• Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership (Justice, Power, and Politics)
• Necropolitics (Theory in Forms)