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Black Women in Higher Education: Toward Comparative Intersectionality

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Intersectionality theory offers a methodological approach, a heuristic tool, and an epistemological stance for understanding and combating multiple forms/manifestations of marginalization (Davis in Women, race and class. New York, Random House, 1981; Giddings in When and where I enter: The impact of Black women on race and sex in America. New York, William Morrow, 1984; hooks in Feminist theory: From margin to center. Brooklyn, South End Press, 1984; Collins in Black feminist thought: Knowledge, consciousness and the politics of empowerment. Boston, Unwin-Hyman, 1990; Davis in Feminist Theory 9: 67–85, 2008; Carbado, Crenshaw-Williams, Mays, & Tomlinson in Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race 10: 303–312, 2013). In its classical sense, intersectionality has been used to explain how fields/structures of power (for instance gender, race, class, and nation, to name a few) interact to produce social inequities for any limitless combination of identities. In particular, the theory delves into the systematic and structural analysis of social hierarchies, processes, power dynamics, and their collective relationship to social identities; particularly for marginalized women.

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    Global south is an emerging concept that has been used in transnational and postcolonial studies to refer to countries in Latin America, Africa and the Caribbean. It has been used to transplant the use of “third world”; which has been criticized as a form of epistemic violence.

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