ABSTRACT
Black feminist social scientists center the experiences of black women and analyze the role of structural inequalities in shaping black women’s lived experiences, with the understanding that black women are not an essentialized, undifferentiated unit of analysis; rather, black women represent an intersectional reality of social identities and staggered positionality within these identities. Black and critical feminist geographers are readily taking up “intersectional spatialities” as a way of “placing, unsettling and decentering whiteness (as a hegemonic power formation), interrogating how norms of the racial privilege rely on and are spatially reproduced; and making visible multiple subjectivities and the forms of the power”. Future methodological interventions that the center spatiality should take into account not only patterns and distributions but also the particularities and nuances of the locality and the culture in shaping individuals, as well as how individuals shape locality and the culture.
