Thinking the world at the crossroads

black women and Social Theory

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-7289.2024.1.45093

Keywords:

Social theory, Identitarism, Black women, Intersectionality.

Abstract

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.

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Author Biographies

Raquel Weiss, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Ufrgs), Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil.

PhD in Philosophy and Master in Sociology from the University of São Paulo (USP), in São Paulo, SP, Brazil. Professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Ufrgs), in Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.

Winnie de Campos Bueno, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Ufrgs), Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil

Master in Public Law from the University of Rio dos Sinos (Unisinos), in São Leopoldo, RS, Brazil. PhD student in the Postgraduate Program in Sociology at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Ufrgs), in Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.

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Published

2024-04-05

How to Cite

Weiss, R., & Bueno, W. de C. (2024). Thinking the world at the crossroads: black women and Social Theory. Civitas: Journal of Social Sciences, 24(1), e45093. https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-7289.2024.1.45093

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Paths of criticism: identities, feminisms and the emancipatory project