Silke Roth — Intersectionality and coalitions in social movement research: A survey and outlook

Yield

12 of 546 paragraphs kept (2.2%). Target: 35%+ — ⚠️ BELOW target.

Thesis

Women of color can be marginalized by both feminist and civil rights movements. · ch. 0

Argument

1. Structural factors, not ideology, gave women bridging roles — ch. 0
2. Social movement research has rarely applied intersectional perspectives so far. — ch. 0
3. Movement leaders suppress internal critiques to protect unity — ch. 0
4. A person’s social position shapes how they build coalitions. — ch. 0
5. Political intersectionality is needed while labor markets stay segmented by race, class, and gender. — ch. 1
6. Labor movement inclusion requires internal caucuses for underrepresented groups. — ch. 1
7. Same-sex marriage goals reflect white middle-class priorities. — ch. 1
8. Raising women and minority membership leaves labor culture unchanged. — ch. 1
9. Nationalist and racist movements recruit across class and gender lines — ch. 1
10. Intersectionality reveals unmarked privileged positions and aids broad inclusive alliances. — ch. 2
11. Studying privilege is as central to intersectionality as mapping subordination. — ch. 2

Annotation Roundup

Question

• Social movement research has rarely applied intersectional perspectives so far. — Worth chasing: the survey framing suggests intersectionality is underused in movement scholarship despite being central to movements themselves — why the disciplinary lag?
• Studying privilege is as central to intersectionality as mapping subordination. — The depoliticization warning (Bilge, Mohanty) vs. treating intersectionality as analytic practice — worth chasing whether a depoliticized intersectionality is inherently co-opted. Xref
• Women of color can be marginalized by both feminist and civil rights movements. — Core tension directly relevant to the survey question: the classic case where suppressing internal heterogeneity (of the constituency) is what marginalizes members who straddle two agendas.
• A person’s social position shapes how they build coalitions. — Speaks directly to the reading purpose of whether solidarity across difference can be achieved without suppressing internal heterogeneity — positionality is the mechanism that complicates coalition.
• Movement leaders suppress internal critiques to protect unity — Directly relevant to the reader’s survey question about whether solidarity requires suppressing internal heterogeneity — this is a real-world case of homogenization for the sake of unity.
• Studying privilege is as central to intersectionality as mapping subordination. — Connects to the reader’s interest in whether solidarity suppresses internal heterogeneity — turning the analytic lens on unmarked/privileged positions is the inverse move.
• Intersectionality reveals unmarked privileged positions and aids broad inclusive alliances. — Directly speaks to the reading purpose — whether solidarity across difference is possible. The tension between depoliticization worries (Bilge, Mohanty) and analytic use connects to debates on whether identity-based tools lose their edge once broadened. Seed
• Women of color can be marginalized by both feminist and civil rights movements. — The double-marginalization structure is a reusable pattern for writing on any intersection — e.g. queerness in religious minority movements — for the supposed intersectionality survey.
• Movement leaders suppress internal critiques to protect unity — Bonus angle: the tension between strategic unity and internal honesty in movements, historically and today. Define
• Political intersectionality is needed while labor markets stay segmented by race, class, and gender. — Offers a concrete working instance of ‘political intersectionality’ as organization-level simultaneous address of multiple oppressions.