Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: : This essay contends that black feminists neglect an essential—and at times, uncomfortable—part of our intellectual tradition: our entanglement with the arithmetical. Rather than dismissing the arithmetical as a technology of antiblack violence, this essay thinks with black feminist mobilization of arithmetic as a strategy for counting violence and for making violence count toward a robust black feminist theory of harm. In turning to intersectionality and to critical fabulation and its afterlives, the essay reveals multiple—and competing—ways that black feminists have performed arithmetical thinking.
Source: American Quarterly
Author: Jennifer C. Nash
Language: English
Subfield: Gender Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Gender equality
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4417192170