Pursuing Intersectionality Unsettling Dominant Imaginaries

<p><em>Pursuing Intersectionality Unsettling Dominant Imaginaries</em> offers a sustained interdisciplinary exploration of intersectional ideas histories and practices that no other text does. Deftly synthesizing much of the existing literatures on intersectionality one of the most significant theoretical and political precepts of our time May invites us to confront a disconcerting problem: though intersectionality is widely known acclaimed and applied it is often construed in ways that depoliticize undercut or even violate its most basic premises. May cogently demonstrates how intersectionality has been repeatedly resisted misunderstood and misapplied: provocatively she shows the degree to which intersectionality is often undone or undermined by supporters and critics alike. A clarion call to engage intersectionality’s radical ideas histories and justice orientations more meaningfully <i>Pursuing Intersectionality</i> answers the basic questions surrounding intersectionality attends to its historical roots in Black feminist theory and politics and offers insights and strategies from across the disciplines for bracketing dominant logics and for orienting toward intersectional dispositions and practices.</p>