March Salon - Leslie McCall March 9, 2022
Salon Topic:
Researching intersectionality in contemporary U.S. politics and revisiting the complexity of intersectionality for research
Leslie McCall, PhD
Associate Director, Stone Center and Presidential Professor of Sociology and Political Science, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Professor McCall will talk about her current research on intersectionality in U.S. politics, and also about how she’s been thinking about the intercategorical, intracategorical and anti-categorical complexity approaches to intersectionality research that she outlined in her visionary 2005 article, “The Complexity of Intersectionality.”
Leslie McCall studies public opinion about inequality, opportunity and related economic and policy issues; trends in actual earnings and family income inequality; and patterns of intersectional inequality. She is the author of The Undeserving Rich: American Beliefs about Inequality, Opportunity and Redistribution (2013) and Complex Inequality: Gender, Class and Race in the New Economy (2001). In line with her 2005 article, she also maintains an interest in the conceptualization and empirical analysis of intersectionality from a social science perspective.
- Cho, S., Crenshaw, K. W., & McCall, L. (2013). Toward a field of intersectionality studies: Theory, applications, and praxis. Signs, 38(4), 785-810. https://doi.org/10.1086/669608
- McCall, L. (2005). The complexity of intersectionality. Signs, 30(3), 1771-1800. https://doi.org/10.1086/426800