The Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy by Garry Ann & Serene J. Khader & Alison Stone

Author:Garry, Ann & Serene J. Khader & Alison Stone
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published: 2017-04-04T16:00:00+00:00

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Nash’s concern is that the equation between Black women’s experiences and marginalization renders intersectionality the primary, if not the sole, framework into which to force black women’s experiences, and conversely, that Black women’s experiences cannot be understood in more expansive, complex ways. Her diagnosis is that this narrowness is the result of understanding intersectionality as an ahistorical construct, rather than a framework that is both continually altered and whose terrain has been and should remain to be continually contested (Nash 2011: 449).

Another critical response to intersectionality in relation to Critical Race Theory is one that I have addressed in previous writing (Sheth 2014). There I suggest that intersectionality could usefully be augmented by a larger-scale analysis in which historical, institutional, legal, and migratory factors also be taken into consideration in order to help understand: (1) invisible or less obvious populations; (2) nuances of interests and features pertaining to subjects of the same perceived populations; (3) why certain members of the same perceived populations might understand themselves to be distinct in key ways from others in “their own group”; and (4) why certain members of different populations might understand themselves to have more in common with each other than with other members of “their own group.”

Thus, I suggest that historical factors such as the 1948 Partition between India and Pakistan might help to explain why South Asian Hindu women and Muslim women of a certain generation in the United States might not necessarily see themselves as part of a group with similar interests, whereas their daughters might very well see themselves as part of group with similar concerns. This approach takes into consideration history, migration law, visa statuses, geopolitical concerns, property laws, and foreign and domestic policies designed to scrutinize certain populations as being threats to the safety of a nation or other populations (as in the case of the “War on Terror”).

This view is an augmentation to intersectionality and Critical Race Theory, building on Crenshaw’s metaphor of road intersections to consider their interstices, which would include building codes, regulations, policies, and other structural factors as a way of recognizing the particular features of a variety of populations who may not be otherwise visible.

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