Thinking the world at the crossroads: black women and Social Theory

This article is an essay-performance, a piece of writing resulting from a dialog about the presence/absence of black women in social theory. We start from a diagnosis of some key positions on how social theory has dealt with identity demands and propose a discussion centered on the idea of intersect...

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Autores: Weiss, Raquel, Bueno, Winnie de Campos
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:Brasil
Institución:Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS)
Repositorio:Civitas - Revista de Ciências Sociais (Porto Alegre. Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br:article/45093
Acceso en línea:https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/civitas/article/view/45093
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Teoria social
Identitarismo
Mulheres negras
Interseccionalidade
Teoría social
Mujeres negras
Interseccionalidad
Social theory
Identitarism
Black women
Intersectionality.
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Sumario:This article is an essay-performance, a piece of writing resulting from a dialog about the presence/absence of black women in social theory. We start from a diagnosis of some key positions on how social theory has dealt with identity demands and propose a discussion centered on the idea of intersectionality as a basis for thinking about the issue. To this end, we point out the importance of recovering the critical sense of the idea of intersectionality as an intellectual expression of the experience of black women, who have enunciated this idea even without naming the term. Finally, we shift the idea of intersectionality to the idea of crossroads and offer some contributions on the meaning and possibility of the presence of black women in social theory.