I’m a former English professor, so I’m familiar with the jargon literary theorists often use—aporia, hermeneutics, deconstruction, and the French différance, a favorite word of the impenetrable ...

The feminist intellectual bell hooks, who died recently, left an inspiring legacy of reflections about race, gender, class, and social justice. Indeed, she discussed these issues long before the ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. An “intersection,” we all know, is where two streets cross, or “intersect.” We usually think of an “intersection” as ...

In modern conversations on race and politics, a popular buzzword has emerged to describe the impact of belonging to multiple social categories. Known as intersectionality, the social theory has a ...