Reddit reviews Black Feminism Reimagined: After Intersectionality (Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies)

Intersectionality was developed as a concept by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw to address the aporia within legal civil rights studies when it came to addressing the issues of Black women. Essentially, Black women could experience discrimination because of their Blackness or their womanhood but it was rendered illegible because discussions conflated racism with Black men and sexism with Black women.

At it's heart, its about recognizing how different structures of oppression interact to address the condition that different people go through. Your main takeaway, and the biggest misconception, is this: *Intersectionality should not be analogized like a deck of card**s.* Race, Gender, Sexuality, Class, Ability, etc. are not pure lines that interact with each other even when it seems they are discussed that way. Crenshaw developed the concept to center the experiences and oppressions of Black women as constitutive to racism, sexism, and capitalism, and not something auxiliary. After all, the math isn't One Black Woman = One Black Man + One White Woman. That makes no sense and replicates harmful assumptions about who should be at the center of our discussion in terms of fighting oppressive hierarchies. This means that Intersectionality and Black feminism should be feminism writ large and anything less is a deferral that centers white women as the embodiment and central subject of oppression and victimhood which directly fucks up many organized movements. Same thing with anti-racist movements.

Here's a link to her original intro.

Very good book on the history of the term that I haven't read yet but know is whatcha need.