"Intersectionality" Not in OED

[Jonathan Lighter]

I'd have said, "synergistic effect."

JL

On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 9:35 PM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:

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> I'm not a big fan of academic jargon, but the word "intersectionality,"
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> h over 500,000 Google hits, should be in OED.  It refers, according to
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> pedia, to the interaction of multiple systems of oppression or
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> on.  I believe it was coined by Kimberle Crenshaw in the following article:
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> Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist
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>  of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics,
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> 989 University of Chicago Legal Forum 139-67 (1989)
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> Fred Shapiro
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