A Selection of Titles to Commemorate Intersectionality Awareness Month

Posted on August 14, 2024 in DEIA Resource Lists

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In honor of August being Intersectionality Awareness Month, TIE has teamed up with Resources for College Libraries (RCL)—a great resource for libraries looking to diversify their collections—to share with our readers important titles on intersectionality. The term, coined by legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989, denotes how different social markers, such as race, gender, and class, overlap and intersect to yield unique challenges and manifestations of discrimination for those encompassed by these different categories. We all strive for inclusive excellence within our institutions and social circles, and these important resources can help readers better attain that goal.

  1. Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement (1996) edited by Kimberlé Crenshaw Neil T. Gotanda Gary Peller Kendall Thomas
  2. Critical Race Theory: An Introduction, 3rd ed. (2017) by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic
  3. Disability, Gender and the Trajectories of Power (2015) edited by Asha Hans
  4. Feminist and Queer Theory: An Intersectional and Transnational Reader (2020) edited by L. Ayu Saraswati and Barbara L. Shaw
  5. Gender: What Everyone Needs to Know (2021) by Laura Erickson-Schroth and Benjamin Davis
  6. The Intersectional Internet: Race, Sex, Class, and Culture Online (2016) edited by Safiya Umoja Noble and Brendesha M. Tynes
  7. Intersectionality, 2nd ed. (2020) by Patricia Hill Collins and Sirma Bilge
  8. Intersectionality: Origins, Contestations, Horizons (2016) by Anna Carastathis
  9. Intersectionality As Social Critical Theory (2019) by Patricia Hill Collins
  10. Introducing Intersectionality (2017) by Mary Romero
  11. Masculinity, Intersectionality and Identity: Why Boys (Don’t) Dance (2022) edited by Doug Risner and Beccy Watson
  12. Patriarchy Blues: Reflections on Manhood (2022) by Frederick Joseph
  13. Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia (2012) edited by Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, Yolanda Flores Niemann, Carmen G. Gonzalez and Angela P. Harris
  14. Pursuing Intersectionality, Unsettling Dominant Imaginaries (2015) by Vivian M. May
  15. Rethinking Sexism, Gender, and Sexuality (2016) edited by Annika Butler-Wall et al.
  16. Undermining Intersectionality: The Perils of Powerblind Feminism (2018) by Barbara Tomlinson

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Resources for College Libraries (RCL) supports the undergraduate curriculum with a list of over 90,000 core titles essential for teaching and research. The RCL database is developed and peer-reviewed by practicing librarians and co-published by Choice/ACRL and ProQuest-Clarivate.

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