ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a brief overview of the important contributions and critiques of intersectionality. It discusses the concept of decolonial intersectionality and presents two strategies of a cultural psychology analysis to apply the concept in intellectual work and teaching. The first decolonizing strategy is to normalize patterns of experience in diverse Majority-World settings that hegemonic discourses portray as abnormal or suboptimal. The second decolonizing strategy is to denaturalize patterns that hegemonic discourse considers as standards of optimal functioning. The concept of intersectionality emerged within perspectives of Black feminism and critical race theory as an analytical and political tool that problematizes monolithic accounts of experience. Perhaps a more important contribution of intersectional analyses is to reveal how conventional understandings of women's liberation bear traces of racial privilege. The chapter considers possible applications of a decolonial intersectionality, with particular attention to its implications for feminist pedagogy.
