(Un)Doing Intersectionality in Education Research

• In Event: 68.061 - Roundtable Session 30
  In Roundtable Session: 68.061-2 - Intersectional Education Research Across Race and Gender Lines

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to explore how intersectionality is used to frame higher education research. We analyzed 91 higher education journal articles to explore how researchers “do” and “undo” intersectionality and, subsequently, how intersectional analyses influence a radical social justice agenda in education. Study findings guide implications for the continued use of intersectionality in higher education research and exposes not only where the field has been with the theory, but also, where the field should (and perhaps, should not) take intersectionality.

Authors

• Jessica C. Harris, University of California - Los Angeles

• Lori D. Patton, Indiana University