The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Race and Gender (eBook)

This handbook unravels the complexities of the global and local entanglements of race, gender and intersectionality within racial capitalism in times of #MeToo, #BlackLivesMatter, the Chilean uprising, Anti-Muslim racism, backlash against trans and queer politics, and global struggles against modern colonial femicide and extractivism. Contributors chart intersectional and decolonial perspectives on race and gender research across North America, Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, and South Africa, centering theoretical understandings of how these categories are imbricated and how they operate and mean individually and together. This book offers new ways to think about what is absent/present and why, how erasure works in historical and contemporary theoretical accounts of the complexity of lived experiences of race and gender, and how, as new issues arise, intersectionalities (re)emerge in the politics of race and gender.

This handbook will be of interest to students and scholars across the social sciences and humanities.

Shirley Anne Tate is Professor and Canada Research Chair Tier 1 in Feminism and Intersectionality at the University of Alberta, and Honorary Professor, Nelson Mandela University. Her research in Black Diaspora Studies focuses on Caribbean decolonial theory. She publishes on institutional racism, the body, beauty, race performativity, and hybridity.

Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez is Professor of Sociology, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Adjunct Faculty Professor at the University of Alberta, and Visiting Professor, Chair for Critical Studies in Higher Education Transformation, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa. She publishes on the coloniality of migration, affect and domestic work, and institutional racism.