Review of Hill Collins, P., & Bilge, S. (2016), "Intersectionality"

Abstract

Ready or not: intersectionality is sweeping across classrooms in largely student-led strokes. Luckily, Patricia Hill Collins and Sirma Bilge, women who’ve penned texts to the tune of critical inquiry and praxis for years, remind us what intersectionality means and how it emerges in their latest collaboration, Intersectionality. Their book highlights concerns with intersectionality’s institutionalization while simultaneously arguing that many colleges and universities have missed opportunities to connect with the ways students live intersectionally (through jobs, sports, care-roles, and so on) (47). Urging readers away from insincere “diversity” and “cultural competence” claims, they explain that readers with vested interested in education work in contexts where “some forms of diversity remain more desirable than others” and that taking intersectionality seriously means engaging in critical, collaborative, coalition-building work “with people who really are different” (174, 169).

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“…Intersectionality is the study and critique of how a person's lived experiences are shaped by the interplay between multiple social identities and systems of marginalization (Buchanan & Wiklund, 2021;Crenshaw, 1991;Curtis et al, 2020). Intersectionality, originating from Black feminist thought, evaluates the dynamics of privilege and oppression with a commitment to social justice (Collins & Bilge, 2020;Cooke & Few-Demo, 2022;Few-Demo & Allen, 2020). At its core, intersectionality proposes that individuals possess diverse, overlapping, and often contradictory social identities that shape how they navigate the world (Few-Demo, 2014).…”

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“…There also are important ethnographies published as books that examine race in specific criminal justice and legal contexts (e.g., . However, the current body of work often has important limitations, such as restricting examinations of race to Black-White comparisons and not engaging with intersectionality (Hill Collins & Bilge, 2020), that is, the ways in which people's lived experiences reflect a combination of identities (e.g., being a young Latino man from an impoverished background) rather than any one characteristic (e.g., race) in isolation (Hunt, 2015). Thus, there remains a critical need for both increased and more sophisticated research on race, ethnicity, and culture and their intersections in the criminal justice, legal, and carceral domains.…”

“…At its core, intersectionality involves recognition of the ways in which different social groups, identities, and positions are mutually coconstructive. One cannot understand the meaning or impact of race for a given person or community without considering its interplay with other social groups and characteristics, such as gender, class, sexual orientation, (dis)ability status, and immigration status (Hill Collins & Bilge, 2020). Likewise, intersectional positions determine the degree of power and privilege versus disadvantage and oppression experienced by individuals and groups.…”

“…In this issue, Perillo et al (2023) show how police use of force may elicit lower concern when it is directed at Black girls, and Saunders and Midgette (2023) show how Black women may receive especially harsh punishments for technical violations when community supervision officers lack personal knowledge. Intersectional approaches also facilitate identifying structural advantages and disadvantages that can powerfully influence people's behaviors, opportunities, and outcomes (Hill Collins & Bilge, 2020; and designing interventions that are effective for groups that are multiply marginalized (Mays & Ghavami, 2018). For instance, Lehmann This document is copyrighted by the American Psychological Association or one of its allied publishers.…”

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“…Intersectionality is thus about acknowledging that all of us have multiple identities and inhabit multiple locations. However, it is also about 'mediating the tension between assertions of multiple identity and the ongoing necessity of group politics' (Crenshaw 1991(Crenshaw , p. 1296, while remaining cognisant of relationality, social context, power and social justice (Collins & Bilge 2016). By adopting a multi-dimensional approach to identity and social location, intersectionality fractures the implicit dualism of standpoint theory.…”