Returning to an analysis of power and the centrality of black women: an empirical response to the battles over intersectionality
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Abstract In the decades since its conception, intersectionality scholarship has grown to span a range of topics, study populations, disciplines, and methodologies. It has also become a literature mired in fierce contention. Efforts to expand intersectionality to quantitative research and new study populations have resulted in an increasing focus on identity over structural analysis and a move away from Black women as central subjects of study. A contingent of scholars has criticized these transitions, but largely on theoretical grounds. In this study, I push forward those scholars’ arguments while offering a quantitative research design that operationalizes structure and recenters Black women. Specifically, I explore the question: How do Black mothers and their families in the United States experience compounded deprivation? To answer this question, I employ multidomain sequence analysis as a novel method to approximate and analyze multiple structures—the carceral system, housing, and social networks—and demonstrate how they configure to entangle Black women in persistent hardship. In so doing, I offer an approach to documenting hardships in a way that more closely reflects Black women’s unique lived experiences of deprivation.
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| When | Event | Field | Old | New |
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| 2026-06-18 19:37:53.011249+00:00 | identifier_assigned | DSEID | DSEID-000-5174623 |