ABSTRACT
The current oversaturated atmosphere within which intersectionality is thriving might benefit from a politics of location. In a time, moreover, of accelerated global traffic in ideas and texts, neither teachers nor students could remain unaffected by intersectionality's claims to a unique intellectual and superior feminist politics. Marxist writings are quite noteworthy for a strong antipathy toward “identity politics,” which can then translate further into an active disinterest in if not hostility toward intersectionality as an idea. The US literature on intersectionality attests that much of its power and appeal came from the long history of Black feminist engagements with gender and race. In several genealogical accounts of intersectionality, the Combahee River Collective stands apart since they went so far beyond the binary of race and gender. For intersectionality to genuinely index new subjectivities and lasting coalitions, it cannot turn into a talisman or a guarantee of superior politics.
