The True History of Intersectionality

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🗓️ 10 January 2022

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The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 62 Intersectionality is usually credited to Kim Crenshaw, who coined the term as well as "Critical Race Theory" in 1989. It has an older history, however. Listeners to the New Discourses Podcast will have heard earlier episodes in which James Lindsay articulates how intersectionality arose from the Critical Marxist Theory of Herbert Marcuse in the late 1960s, but there's another link in the middle of the twenty-five year span between 1964, when Marcuse wrote One-Dimensional Man (https://amzn.to/3pXrjhK), and 1989. That link can be found in the Black Feminist organization known as the Combahee River Collective, which published a manifesto-like statement in 1977 that lays out intersectionality 12 years before Crenshaw ever wrote about it. In the Combahee River Collective Statement of 1977 (https://www.workers.org/wp-content/uploads/CombaheeRiverCollectiveStatement1977.pdf), then, we can find the first articulation of what intersectionality is really about and see unambiguously its deep Marxist roots, cementing the claim that it is, in fact, Identity Marxism. Join James on this episode of the New Discourses Podcast to hear the statement in his signature style. Support New Discourses: paypal.me/newdiscourses newdiscourses.locals.com/support patreon.com/newdiscourses subscribestar.com/newdiscourses youtube.com/channel/UC9K5PLkj0N_b9JTPdSRwPkg/join Website: https://newdiscourses.com Follow: facebook.com/newdiscourses twitter.com/NewDiscourses instagram.com/newdiscourses https://newdiscourses.locals.com pinterest.com/newdiscourses linkedin.com/company/newdiscourses minds.com/newdiscourses reddit.com/r/NewDiscourses Podcast: @newdiscourses podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/new-…es/id1499880546 bit.ly/NDGooglePodcasts open.spotify.com/show/0HfzDaXI5L4LnJQStFWgZp stitcher.com/podcast/new-discourses © 2022 New Discourses. All rights reserved.

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0:00.0	And hello everyone, welcome to yet another exciting episode of the new Discourses podcast.
0:25.3	This is James Lindsay. Today we are going to discuss the true history, the true origin of intersectionality.
0:33.8	So if you are a student of critical race theory or identity Marxism or broadly, or if you
0:41.5	are a frequent listener to the podcast, you'll know that I've talked about intersectionality
0:45.6	a lot. You'll know that it's a massive buzzword in society today. Anyway, you'll know that
0:50.9	it's being incorporated and is used as a justification for all kinds of woke nonsense. You'll know that
0:55.7	somehow it's the engine of woke nonsense in many regards. You'll understand basically the intersectionality
1:02.3	means that you're going to have to consider all the different factors of identity-based oppression and
1:07.9	other forms of so-called oppression. All of this being various aspects of nail Marxist thought
1:13.7	all at once. And to understand that each form of oppression can only be understood in light of
1:19.0	all of the other forms of oppression. So for example, that it wouldn't be possible to understand
1:24.7	racism without understanding how sexism is intertwined with racism and vice versa. You'll know that
1:31.7	it is the name intersectionality came from Kimberly Crenshaw from her 1989 paper. What was
1:40.4	it called demarginalizing the intersection of race and sex or something like that? I don't have
1:47.0	that in front of me. That's not the point today. It's not to go through that paper. But that's where she
1:50.5	argues that industries like general motors, for example, would be able to, and she wrote this
1:59.4	law review article in 89 that had just mentioned. And the general motors was one of the things that
2:04.6	she pointed out in that paper, but that they would be able to hire, for example, lots of black men
2:10.2	to work on the factory floor and lots of white women to work in the offices. And thus be able to
2:14.9	discriminate against black women who would be hired for neither position. And so they could be
2:20.2	discriminated against black women could be specifically and race-based discrimination wouldn't be
2:25.9	able to catch it if there are enough black men hired for a particular sector, I guess, or another
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