Coronavirus did not create the stark social, financial, and political inequalities that define life for so many people, but it has made them more strikingly visible than any moment in recent history.
This brilliant collection of the most important insights from the Under The Blacklight livestream event series and Intersectionality Matters podcast, hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw and the African American Policy Forum, examines the intersectional dimensions of capitalism, patriarchy, racism, and nationalism have converged in the pandemic and its aftermath.
Together, these essential thinkers navigate the historical contours of the pandemic, and the pre-existing inequalities that shape its impact. They also examine the historic moment of social and political mobilization that the police murders of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd sparked, and unpack the central role that ideological whiteness continues to play in the US response to both Covid-19 and police violence.
These scholars shine a light on the stories and counter-stories that help us understand the past, illuminate the present, and shape the future.
The book features contributions from Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Ibram X. Kendi, Arundhati Roy, Kiese Laymon, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Carol Anderson, Naomi Klein, V, formerly Eve Ensler, Eddie Glaude Jr., Ai-jen Poo, Dorothy Roberts, Alicia Garza, Keith Ellison, Marc Lamont Hill, Bree Newsome, David Blight, Robin D.G. Kelley, Josie Duffy Rice, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Laura Flanders, Kate Manne, Kehinde Andrews, Barbara Arnwine, Paul Butler, Mab Segrest, Dallas Goldtooth, Rinku Sen, Dara Baldwin, Janine Jackson, Saru Jayaraman, and Devon Carbado, among others.
About the Author: Kimberlé Crenshaw, Professor of Law at UCLA and Columbia Law School, is a leading authority in the area of Civil Rights, Black feminist legal theory, and race, racism, and the law. Her work has been foundational in two fields of study that have come to be known by terms that she coined: Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality. She co-founded and serves as the Executive Director of the African American Policy Forum.
Daniel HoSang is an Associate Professor of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration and American Studies at Yale University. He is the co-author of Producers, Parasites, Patriots: Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity and the author of Racial Propositions: Ballot Initiatives and the Making of Postwar California, which was awarded the James A Rawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians.
