Talking Data Equity with Dr. Lisa Bowleg
Resources from Dr. Bowleg’s talk:
Harriet Ann Jacobs (1813–1897)
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl — Harriet Jacobs (1861) — Documenting the American South full text | Project Gutenberg
Anna Julia Haywood Cooper (1858–1964)
• A Voice from the South by a Black Woman of the South — Anna Julia Cooper (1892) — Documenting the American South full text | Project Gutenberg
Patricia Hill Collins
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
Kimberlé Crenshaw
Columbia Law School
Introduction to Intersectional Qualitative Research— Jennifer Esposito and Venus E. Evans-Winters (2021)
Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples— Linda Tuhiwai Smith (1999)
• “The Problem With the Phrase Women and Minorities: Intersectionality—an Important Theoretical Framework for Public Health” — Lisa Bowleg, American Journal of Public Health, 2012 — PMC full text | AJPH (DOI)
• “A Framework for Applied Intersectionality Research (FAIR): Reframing Intersectionality as a Tool to Advance Health Equity and Social Justice Action, Not Just Empirical Research” — Lisa Bowleg, Annual Review of Public Health, 2025/2026 — PubMed | ITI FAIR page
• “Intersectionality’s Definitional Dilemmas” — Patricia Hill Collins, Annual Review of Sociology, 2015 — Annual Reviews | Open-access PDF
• The Combahee River Collective Statement (1977) — BlackPast full text | Library of Congress archive
• “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics” — Kimberlé Crenshaw, University of Chicago Legal Forum, 1989 — Chicago Unbound full text
• “Beside My Sister, Facing the Enemy: Legal Theory Out of Coalition” (the “ask the other question” essay) — Mari Matsuda, Stanford Law Review, 1991 — Link
• “The Complexity of Intersectionality” — Leslie McCall, Signs, 2005 — JSTOR | Open-access PDF
• “Practicing Intersectionality in Sociological Research: A Critical Analysis of Inclusions, Interactions, and Institutions in the Study of Inequalities” — Hae Yeon Choo and Myra Marx Ferree, Sociological Theory, 2010 — SAGE Journals | Open-access PDF
• “Structural Competency: Theorizing a New Medical Engagement with Stigma and Inequality” — Jonathan Metzl and Helena Hansen, Social Science & Medicine, 2014 — PMC full text
• “What is true community engagement and why it matters (now more than ever)” — Renata Schiavo, Journal of Communication in Healthcare, 2021 — Taylor & Francis
• “Quantitative Approaches to Structural Intersectionality Research: Conceptual and Methodologic Considerations” — Ariel Beccia and colleagues, 2025 — PubMed