Journal of Intersectionality

Intersectionality is an intellectual expression of the cultural wars that have risen out of the USA’s civil rights movement on campuses across the nation over the last 30 years. In Kimberlé Crenshaw’s groundbreaking work ‘Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color’ (1993), she demonstrated that the politicization of identity, such as race, gender, or ethnicity, often omits differences within the group. Through this work, she has contributed the idea of ‘intersectionality’ which understands the interconnected and interdependent nature of social categorizations and the potential for overlapping systems of disadvantage. Understanding the intersectional nature of an individual’s multiple and overlapping social identities, we can apply this concept to other cases and examples.

The journal aims to take an intersectional approach to themes and issues discussed, enabling the exploration of how multiple and intersecting identities shapes our understanding of the world.

Editor: 
Jesse Benjamin, Kennesaw State University, USA

Managing Editor:
Autumn Cockrell-Abdullah, Agnes Scott College, USA

Managing Editor for Design & Digital Publishing:
Aajay Murphy, Kennesaw State University, USA

Assistant Editor:
Devyn Springer, independent

Editorial Advisory Board:
Akanmu Adebayo, History department, Kennesaw State University, USA
Edoh Agbehonou, Adjunct Professor, Social Sciences, Bethune-Cookman University, USA
Jim Bacote, independent, decd
Matthew Barlow, independent
Mark Bryce, independent
Khalil Elayan, Kennesaw State University, USA
Les Ettiene, Center for Africana Studies and Culture, Indiana University, USA
Stephanie Evans, Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research and the African American Studies Program, University of Florida, USA
Neysa Figueroa, Kennesaw State University, USA
Ravi Ghadge, Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law, University of Florida, USA
Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Spelman College, USA
Richard Hutchinson, independent
Ethel King-McKenzie, Kennesaw State University, USA
Chapurukha Kusimba, American University, USA
Khalfani Lawson, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Geoffroy de LaForcade,  Norfolk State University, USA
Samuel Livingston, Morehouse College, USA
Brandon Lundy,  Geography and Anthropology, Kennesaw State University, USA
Babacar M’bow, Curator, Museum du Civilization Noire, Senegal
Solomon Negash, Kennesaw State University, USA
Liza Guerra O’Reilly, independent
Dan Paracka, Kennesaw State University, USA
Tammy Powell, Kennesaw State University, USA
Ryan Ronnenberg, Kennesaw State University, USA
Anne Richards, Kennesaw State University, USA
Natsu Saito, Georgia State University, USA
Ernesto Silva, Kennesaw State University, USA
Tiffany Smith, independent
Gabriel Soldatenko, Kennesaw State University, USA
Brian Starks, Kennesaw State University, USA
Silvia Trejo, independent
Seneca Vaught, Kennesaw State University, USA.
Lucie Viakinnou-Brinson, Kennesaw State University, USA.
Jonathan Walz, independent
Tanya Washington, College of Law, Georgia State University, USA
Jamil al Wekhian, School of Peace and Conflict Studies, Kent State University, USA
Akinyele Umoja, Georgia State University, USA
Kurt Young, Political Science, Clark Atlanta University, USA

Please see the submission guidelines here.

Journal’s Editor, Dr. Jesse Benjamin, drjessebenjamin@gmail.com

Publisher Pluto Journals, evek@plutojournals.com 

The Journal is published twice a year. The electronic journal is archived in Portico.

The journal is Open Access and the Open Access statement, Open Access license terms, copyright terms as well as a statement on its absolute lack of author charges can be found here. 

The journal became Open Access on 1 January 2021 and is published open access on ScienceOpen. All journal material published prior to 1 January 2021 is also published, open access on  ScienceOpen. This means the Reuse rights of published material is all under the open CC BY 4.0 license as stated here.