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The Chicago Black Panther Party was doing intersectionality with feminists, a group of Puerto Rican activists called the Young Lords and poor whites known as the the Young Patriots in the 60s.
There's a decent documentary on it called The First Rainbow Coalition that was produced by the Zinn Project.
also American Revolution 2 is a great docu
i do consider second half 20th century as "recent" and the sort of activism of that period as directly related to modern intersectionality.
e: not that this is irrelevant, anyone with a smidgeon of questions abt this topic need to go to these sources. this is where intersectionality was born and its the coolest
The term is new but the concept is not. It picked up in liberal academic circles because they're constantly rediscovering things that communists and anarchists already knew 150 years ago and forcing it through the lens of liberal "progress" as if it's a brand new insight. The important part is to remove the socialism aspect.
It ends up working as a form of recuperation, a toothless mimic of organising for social change that is frequently wielded against socialists that say, "economics too" (which, incidentally, was included in the original liberal definition).
Anyways I still use the term to communicate with liberals as a shorthand for "I'm not a reactionary, how about you?"