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Book Review: Intersectionality

Book Review: Intersectionality Book Reviews Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work 2018, Vol. 33(2) 270-274 Book Reviews ª The Author(s) 2017 Reprints and permission: sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav journals.sagepub.com/home/aff Collins, P. H., & Bilge, S. (2016). Intersectionality. Malden, MA: Polity Press. 249 pp. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7456-8449-9 Reviewed by: Tonya Bibbs, Erikson Institute, Chicago, IL, USA DOI: 10.1177/0886109917738070 Intersectionality appears on course syllabi, frames student protests and informs campus diversity goals. But what does it mean and what is its history? Collins and Bilge respond to this question by guiding initiates through intersectionality’s complex conceptual terrain. They engage the tension between critical inquiry (interrogation of formal knowledge in academia) and praxis (interrogation of everyday events) as their central navigational strategy. For less informed readers, this approach connects critical historic events with contemporary uses of intersectionality. For social workers, it echoes a tradition of bridging theory and practice. They are successful in their use of case studies from international social movements, literary events, and academia to illustrate the wide applic- ability of the concept’s analytic power. The book includes two discussions that define intersectionality’s conceptual boundaries. First, their careful trace of its history is especially noteworthy. It is anchored in African American women’s 19th-century literary http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work SAGE

Book Review: Intersectionality

Bibbs, Tonya
Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work , Volume 33 (2): 2 – May 1, 2018
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Book Reviews Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work 2018, Vol. 33(2) 270-274 Book Reviews ª The Author(s) 2017 Reprints and permission: sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav journals.sagepub.com/home/aff Collins, P. H., & Bilge, S. (2016). Intersectionality. Malden, MA: Polity Press. 249 pp. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7456-8449-9 Reviewed by: Tonya Bibbs, Erikson Institute, Chicago, IL, USA DOI: 10.1177/0886109917738070 Intersectionality appears on course syllabi, frames student protests and informs campus diversity goals. But what does it mean and what is its history? Collins and Bilge respond to this question by guiding initiates through intersectionality’s complex conceptual terrain. They engage the tension between critical inquiry (interrogation of formal knowledge in academia) and praxis (interrogation of everyday events) as their central navigational strategy. For less informed readers, this approach connects critical historic events with contemporary uses of intersectionality. For social workers, it echoes a tradition of bridging theory and practice. They are successful in their use of case studies from international social movements, literary events, and academia to illustrate the wide applic- ability of the concept’s analytic power. The book includes two discussions that define intersectionality’s conceptual boundaries. First, their careful trace of its history is especially noteworthy. It is anchored in African American women’s 19th-century literary

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