In the article titled “Why Intersectionality Can’t Wait“ Kimberlé Crenshaw writes, “intersectionality has been the banner under which many demands for inclusion have been made, but a term can do no more than those who use it have the power to demand” (Washington Post). In this statement Crenshaw says that intersectionality is a term that has given people who experience overlapping systems of discrimination a platform but it does not eliminate social injustices. Intersectionality is a term Crenshaw coined to describe the multiple injustices people face but she says it does nothing to portect them. In the Ted talk titled “The urgency of intersectionality, Crenshaw explains how the courts ruled that combining the overlapping of injustices of Emma…
Intersectionality is an analytic framework which identifies how interlocking systems of power impact those who are most marginalized in society. Intersectionality considers various forms of social stratification and identity, such as class, race, sexual orientation, age, disability and gender, do not exist separately from each other but are complexly interwoven. Law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw coins the term “intersectionality” through this story from the courts. In DeGraffenreid v General Motors, a group of Black women sued the company alleging discrimination against Black women in the company’s seniority system. The court found against the women.…
The article Intersecting Oppressions by Patricia Hill Collins was very interested. After reading this article I feel that there is some problem when it comes to your gender, race and your social class. I don’t feel like everyone has the same advantaged in education as most kids have. When it comes down to your gender you may not be given the same opportunities as the other race meaning male to female. When it comes to race I feel like everyone would be classified by the color of your skin and that really not face so you will not be given the opportunity as some of a different race.…
Kimberlé Crenshaw, a black scholar, who coined the term “intersectionality” in her essay from 1989, “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics”, in which she attests that black women are the most oppressed people in American society. A black woman might be discriminated in ways that neither fit into legal categories of “sexism” nor “racism”. She explains that sadly the legislation has generally defined sexism constructed on an assumed position to the injustices confronted by all females (including white), while defining racism to advocate to those confronted by all Blacks (including men). This failure within the legislation captures Black…
Kimberle Crenshaw coined the term intersectionality in this very essay. Her usage of the term was in conjunction with Black women in the United States and how they are being oppressed because of their race and gender. Crenshaw focuses on gender and race in this very paper, she argues that race and gender should be looked at as cohesive terms, rather than different frameworks in cases that involve Black women that encounter a combination of sex and racial discrimination. This is looking more beyond than racism and sexism, it is building solidarity between the lines of structural differences. Crenshaw uses the metaphor of traffic intersection and crossroads to better illustrate the meaning of intersectionality.…
A few examples exist of the usefulness of using intersectionality can be found in the novel Lucky. Some may argue that these examples are non-existent but they are possibly just hard to interpret. Since this piece is a memoir, it illustrates real life encounters of intersectional analyses. The first example of using an intersectional perspective in this work is in the first chapter. The author describes her rape and assault, but without describing the assailant himself.…
· If the interviewee has experienced discrimination and how it has affected them physically or mentally…
I will attempt to relate my experiences to this article and figure out whether it supports or opposes the literature discussed so far. The key argument in the text revolves around intersectionality. Collins (2000) describes intersectionality as a combination…
She did not make it seem like everyone else is this she made a point of saying we are ALL this way. Hankivsky uses evidence collected from a wide range of sources to make her points about how intersectionality is important and needs to be considered more. She includes pictures, charts, graphs, and a variety of statistics to back up her claims. Her points were logical and credible and did the job that she set out to do, which was to educate the reader about the usefulness and principle of intersectionality. Barsky’s chapter, Theory, Values, and Ethics, made the point that social workers use theories that are drawn from other fields, such as psychology, medicine, law, and many others.…
In the novel Bodega Dreams intersectionality functions in the way the characters envision themselves achieving their definition of success and how they will achieve it. Intersectionality is the “interlocking inequalities of race, gender, ethnicity, and class that create a matrix of domination within which privileges and disadvantages are unequally distributed among people” (Intersections of Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Class, 02/14). Even though two of the book’s characters Julio (most commonly known as Chino) and Edwin Nazario use their masculinity to obtain what they desire, each individual is gifted with dissimilar traits of masculinity that aid in achievement of what they yearn for. All while consuming the hardships of growing up in the Puerto Rican community of East Spanish Harlem.…
Discriminate people on the grounds of age, gender, race, sexuality or ability can damage persons self esteem and reduce their ability to develop and maintain a sense of identity. When people are affected by discrimination they experience anger, humiliation, frustration and a feeling of hopelessness. They are made to feel worthless and at less value than others.…
These are all bound together and inseparable elements. These foundations are largely materialist, describing disadvantaged identities as historically constituted, rather than innate. Focusing exclusively on one dynamic while ignoring the intersections of other structures of disadvantage often produce biased and inaccurate generalizations. Intersectionality recognizes that multiple oppressions are not each suffered separately but rather as a single, synthesized experience. Rather than having any unified canon, this concept draws primarily from direct experiences of the…
Intersectionality is a feminist framework that strives to illuminate the relevance of social location in relation with practices of discrimination and inequality. Basu states the roots of intersectionality originate from the issues of non-inclusive feminism—the beginning of women’s rights in the Western world only included white, middle class women while continuing to oppress these marginalized groups (Basu, 1995). Through systems of discrimination such as racism and colonialism, certain people face different sets of prejudices. To counter these social injustices, the Intersectional Feminist Frameworks stresses the importance of women’s varying histories create multiple identities that allow them to achieve different, unequal hierarchal power.…
Discrimination means many different ways that people can discrimante against another person e.g you could be discriminated against because of your age (to old or to young) different colour of skin your religion as you pray to a different god or believe in different things. Or even for having a disability or even a talent or mental imparements or not able bodied.…
“White privilege”. A controversial topic but no less of a social issue. Eric Liu had achieved the status of “honorary white”. With this “high” ranking come certain rights, privileges that make life in the Western world somewhat “simple.” Liu provided examples of what comes with these privileges. “I have never once been the victim of blatant discrimination, I have been in the inner sanctums of political power.” and “I expect my voice to be heard.” White privilege is being treated with more respect than people of ethnic background, it is the lack of diversity in politics and media and what makes a colorful world black and white. Striving to assimilate in order to sit on the “white” pedestal is what caused Liu and his parents to think of their past as “dirty”.…