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Blogging at the Intersections: Black Women, Identity, and Lesbianism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 August 2012

Julia S. Jordan-Zachery
Julia S. Jordan-Zachery
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Providence College
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In my recent explorations of black women as subjects in research-length articles that employ intersectionality, I discovered that black women are rarely, if at all, the sole subjects of such research projects (Jordan-Zachery 2011). This analysis focused on articles published, between 1996 and 2010, in two political science journals that are often ranked at the top—American Political Science Review and Journal of Politics (see Garand and Giles, 2003, on the issue of journal ranking). Also included were two political science journals whose central focus is women and politics, generally defined—Journal of Women Politics and Policy and Women & Politics. My analysis was limited to research-length articles with a U.S.-based emphasis. The data suggest the following trends: Research on intersectionality tended to treat black women in a monolithic manner; only a certain group of black women served as research subjects (elected officials dominated the research); and research tended to focus on structural and political intersectionality while ignoring representational intersectionality (Crenshaw 1991).

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Critical Perspectives on Gender and Politics
Information
Politics & Gender , Volume 8 , Issue 3 , September 2012 , pp. 405 - 414
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Copyright © The Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association 2012

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