Critical Perspectives on Intersectionality: Addressing Struggles over Race, Gender, Class, and Ecology

The social theory of intersectionality has gained prominence among activists and academics as a way to address the question of inclusion and social solidarity that was often overlooked by the traditional Left focus on the working class. Does “intersectionality” deliver on its promise to theorize radical social change in an inclusive way? Does it offer a real alternative to capitalism? How might intersectionality be understood in the context of contemporary struggles?

In this discussion, panelists will be engaging these questions from various critical perspectives focused on race, gender, class, and ecological struggles.

Friday 25th July

@6:30 p.m.

Corboy Law Center

Rm 208 25 East Pearson St.

Chicago

Speakers

Lenore Daniels, “The Marginalization of Black Radicalism in the Obama Era” (activist and writer on Cultural Theory, Race and Gender)

Sarah Mason, “From Occupy to Marx: Ecology, Labor and the New Society” (former activist, Occupy Los Angeles)

Kevin Anderson, “Karl Marx and Intersectionality” (author Marx at the Margins)

Sandra Rein, “The Gendered Subject at the Crossroads” (author Reading Raya Dunayevskaya)

David Black, “Philosophy, Ecology, and Anti-Capitalism” (author, Philosophical Roots of Anti-Capitalism)

Sponsored by: Loyola University Department of Sociology Co-Sponsor: International Marxist-Humanist Organization

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