Intersectionality fails because it assumes race and gender categories stay fixed

Evidence

“Racialization” is defined as “an unstable and de-centered complex of social meanings constantly being transformed by political struggle” assigned to identities in society. Michael Omi and Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1990s, 2nd ed. (Routledge, 1994), 55. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1241 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Multiple subordinated identities compound into more than additive subordination. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 72; Identities co-create each other so no category has analytic priority — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 83; Intersectionality is foundational to analyzing compounded race and sex discrimination (+10 more)

Broader Connections

• Intersectionality is foundational to analyzing compounded race and sex discrimination #contradicts (0.90)
• Racial categories are unstable and shift through contested definition #corroborates (0.85)
• Racial categories are unstable social meanings reshaped by political struggle #corroborates (0.85) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1241
• Race and gender are mutually defining relational concepts, not separate categories #complicates (0.80)
• Race is an unstable, fully-fledged social fact like class or gender #corroborates (0.80) — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 140
• Racial categories were administratively imposed rather than biologically fixed #corroborates (0.75) — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 216
• Race and gender interlock as socially constructed relational categories #qualifies (0.75) — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 136
• Racisms hybridize across racialized groups rather than staying within fixed boundaries #corroborates (0.70)