ABSTRACT
The chapter begins by looking at race and gender skin scripts in the television series Lovecraft Country to start to think about the complexities and colonial continuities of race and gender as applied to the Black body. It looks at the development of intersectionality as a theory, concept, methodology and heuristic. It attends to the necessity of placing race within intersectionality rather than displacing race, as has happened within women’s studies in the US (Nash, 2018) and women’s and gender studies in Europe (Lewis, 2013) and Canada (Bilge, 2020). Tracing intersectionality’s genealogy in Black US feminist thinking and activism, alongside Black feminism in the Caribbean (Reddock, 2007) and the UK (Mirza, 1997, 2022) and Black Latin American/Caribbean decolonial feminist thought (Curiel, 2016; Miñoso, 2007), the chapter seeks to establish that intersectionality is intrinsically decolonial. As such, skin’s intersectional dynamics are an important consideration in Black feminist decolonial analyses of its affective life in an anti-Black world.
