Women of Color

Abstract

This keyword entry explores the multiple genealogies of the term women of color and the ways in which social activism, anti-coloniality, and solidarity movements produced the term. By situating the multiple genealogies of women of color, the article demonstrates both its political potential for addressing forms of silencing and erasure about the experiences and scholarship by women of color through an intersectionality approach. The essay offers examples of how attention to intersectionality offers nuanced understandings of women of color experiences as well as how ethnographic methods can become more attuned to our interlocutors and our own experiences as researchers.