In Black Feminism Reimagined Jennifer C. Nash reframes black feminism's engagement with
intersectionality often celebrated as its primary intellectual and political contribution to
feminist theory. Charting the institutional history and contemporary uses of intersectionality
in the academy Nash outlines how women's studies has both elevated intersectionality to the
discipline's primary program-building initiative and cast intersectionality as a threat to
feminism's coherence. As intersectionality has become a central feminist preoccupation Nash
argues that black feminism has been marked by a single affect-defensiveness-manifested by
efforts to police intersectionality's usages and circulations. Nash contends that only by
letting go of this deeply alluring protectionist stance the desire to make property of
knowledge can black feminists reimagine intellectual production in ways that unleash black
feminist theory's visionary world-making possibilities.
