ABSTRACT
The introduction opens with excerpts from the interviews with the protagonist Valerie and her two siblings: three different tones “voicing Valerie” including herself. The chapter then contextualizes intersectionality by broadly locating “it” within the landscape of scholarly theories especially about and frameworks for “identity.” It underscores the key aspects of the intersectionality framework and those that are particularly germane to the current project. In so doing, the book’s scope and expected contributions to the field are identified: scaling intersectionality, voicing the protagonist and polyvocality. Multiple first-person accounts of one person’s story and her self-understanding take center stage.
