Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : intersectional Oobjectivity / Patrick R. Grzanka -- Introduction : systems of oppression / Patrick R. Grzanka -- Life is complicated, and other observations / Patricia Williams -- Immigrant acts / Lisa Lowe -- The structural and political dimensions of intersectional oppression / Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw -- Diaspora, asylum, and family / Chandan Reddy -- Introduction : power/knowledge/position / Patrick R. Grzanka -- Racism and women's studies / Barbara Smith -- Situated knowledges and the persistence of vision / Donna Haraway -- The trouble with postmodernism / Patricia Hill Collins -- Felt intuition / Philip Brian Harper -- Queer of color critique and the canon / Roderick Ferguson -- Introduction : the (intersectional) self and society / Patrick R. Grzanka -- Black women and welfare / Angela Y. Davis -- The "home" question / Chandra Talpade Mohanty -- Identity as a weapon of mass destruction / Shuddhabrata Sengupta -- "It's not psychology" : gender, intersectionality, and activist science / Stephanie Shields -- Introduction : the cartographic imagination / Patrick R. Grzanka -- Feminist architecture / Gloria Anzaldúa -- Why are the gay ghettoes white? / Charles I. Nero -- Sex and tourism / Nan Alamilla Boyd -- Black on the block / Mary Pattillo -- Introduction : media as sites/sights of justice / Patrick R. Grzanka -- Why are You Laughing? / bell hooks -- Ambivalent drag / Judith Butler -- Unconventional subjects / Kara Keeling -- The sixpack as "high art" / Rosalind Gill -- Introduction : on pragmatism / Patrick R. Grzanka -- Anger as a response to racism / Audre Lorde -- The demography of sexual harassment / Marla H. Kohlman -- Academia and activism / Patricia Ticineto Clough and Michelle Fine -- Social movements in the wake of Katrina / Rachel Luft -- Introduction : transnational interventions / Patrick R. Grzanka -- Feminism and colonialism / Chandra Talpade Mohanty -- Imagine otherwise / Kandice Chuh -- Thomas Jefferson's desires / Siobhan B. Somerville -- Rosario's lament : mothering across borders / Heather Hewett -- Introduction : political diffractions / Patrick R. Grzanka -- The new homonormativity / Lisa Duggan -- The spirit of Neoliberalism / Jodi Melamed -- A mother's plea for help / Ruth Wilson Gilmore -- Legislative representation and welfare policymaking / Beth Reingold and Adrienne R. Smith -- Introduction : science and technology studies as tools for social justice / Patrick R. Grzanka -- Science, race, and sexuality / Siobhan B. Somerville -- Race and risk across the science-lay divide / Janet K. Shim -- Cyberfeminisms : race, gender, and embodiment / Jessie Daniels -- Wily patients and welfare queens / Khiara M. Bridges -- Disability is the new gender / Nancy J. Hirschmann -- Introduction : what do we do now? / Patrick R. Grzanka -- Occupy intersectionality / Avtar Brah and Ann Phoenix -- When black + woman + lesbian does not = black lesbian woman / Lisa Bowleg -- Intersectional psychology : (at least) three questions / Elizabeth R. Cole -- From intersections to assemblages / Jasbir K. Puar -- Frontiers / Bonnie Thornton Dill.