Subtitle: Race, Class, and Gender in Theory, Policy, and Practice
Editors: Bonnie Thornton Dill and Ruth Enid Zambrana
Forward: Patricia Hill Collins
Subject: Sociology , Cultural Studies
Paper ISBN 978-0-8135-4455-7
Cloth ISBN 978-0-8135-4454-0
Pages: 328 pages
Publication Date: January 2009

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"This collection is smart, up to date, and relevant to our times. I wish I could put it in the hands of every university president!"
- Mary Margaret Fonow, Arizona State University

"In a context of practices such as proclaiming that racism is dead under the banner of colorblind racism, of claiming that women are equal to men because gender-neutral social policies seem to be in force, and the erasure of poverty as a social problem via mass-media amnesia, it becomes even more important to cast the critical analytical lens of intersectionality on prevailing social inequalities. By approaching some of the most significant social science research through intersectional frameworks, Emerging Intersections raises a clarion call for the next generation of scholar/activists who inherit the very large task of using it to foster social justice.--from the foreword by Patricia Hill Collins

The United States is known as a "melting pot" yet this mix tends to be volatile and contributes to a long history of oppression, racism, and bigotry.

Emerging Intersections, an anthology of ten previously unpublished essays, looks at the problems of inequality and oppression from new angles and promotes intersectionality as an interpretive tool that can be utilized to better understand the ways in which race, class, gender, ethnicity, and other dimensions of difference shape our lives today. The book showcases innovative contributions that expand our understanding of how inequality affects people of color, demonstrates the ways public policies reinforce existing systems of inequality, and shows how research and teaching using an intersectional perspective compels scholars to become agents of change within institutions. By offering practical applications for using intersectional knowledge, Emerging Intersections will help bring us one step closer to achieving positive institutional change and social justice.

Bonnie Thornton Dill is a professor and chair of the department of women's studies and founder of the Consortium on Race, Gender, and Ethnicity at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Ruth Enid Zambrana is a professor of women's studies and director of the Consortium on Race, Gender, and Ethnicity, and interim director of the U.S. Latino Studies Initiative at the University of Maryland, College Park.