Using June Jordan's “Report from the Bahamas” as a grounding text, this session will consider whether intersectionality's core analytic frames of race, class, and gender travel well and whether they create a generative and productive basis for building transnational Black feminist solidarity.
Dr. Brittney Cooper is Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Africana Studies, as well as the Principal Investigator and Founding Director of the Race and Gender Equity (RAGE) Lab, at Rutgers University. Her books include Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women, winner of the 2018 Merle Curti Prize for Best Book in U.S. Intellectual History from the Organization of American Historians; the New York Times bestseller Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower; Feminist AF: A Guide to Crushing Girlhood (co-authored with Susana Morris and Chanel Craft Tanner) a Kirkus top Young Adult Book of 2021 and a nominee for the Garden State Teen Book Award from the New Jersey Library Association; Stand Up!: 10 Mighty Women Who Made a Change; and The Crunk Feminist Collection (co-edited with Susana Morris and Robin Boylorn).