<div>Over the past twenty years the concept of intersectionality,” first coined by the scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw, has emerged as an influential approach to understanding discrimination and exclusion in our society, whose members can experience bias in multiple ways—as a consequence of race, gender, sexual orientation, or a combination of these. And as the<i>Washington Post</i> reported recently, the term has been used by social activists as both a rallying cry for more expansive progressive movements and a chastisement for their limitations.” As a new wave of activism seeks to challenge entrenched discrimination in America, few concepts have acquired such relevance, or have been so widely debated.<br><br>In this incisive introduction to Crenshaw’s work, readers will find the key essays and articles that have defined the concept of intersectionality collected together for the first time. This new account covers the trajectory of the subject as it has evolved over the course of two decades and radically changed the face of social justice activism, and it includes a sweeping new introduction by Crenshaw. For anyone interested in movement politics and advocacy,<i>On Intersectionality</i> is compulsory reading from one of the most brilliant critical race theorists of our time.<br></div>