ABSTRACT
The status of Black women's economic prosperity in America remains precarious for a variety of reasons, and intersectionality has made legible the ways that various manifestations of discrimination on the basis of race and gender and economic disenfranchisement are inextricably linked. Though intersectionality was coined by Kimberle Crenshaw to 1989 to make evident the ways that Black women experience both gender and racial discriminations from a legal standpoint, the critical texts, statements, and activism that gave rise to its theoretical prominence can be traced back a further. After framing the problems they see affecting Black women at alarming rates, Kenney et al. then begin to explain their engagements with existing and proposed opportunities for the improvement of Black women's economic lives.
