I also agree that intersectionality have a huge influence in the struggles that Laverne Coz is facing right now. In her speech, she listed some of her multiple identities such as being born as African American transgender woman, comes from a working class background, and raised by a single mother. All these identities intersect with one another causing discriminations. In her speech, she points out the obstacle that the transgender are facing in the community. Also in regards to the definition of a woman provided by Sojourner Truth and Simone de Beauvior, Laverne Coz has her own definition of what is a woman. She became a woman not because she was born as one, but because she chose to be one. She made into a woman not in reference…
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…
Institutional racism has shaped inequality with the help of cultural factors. People have become colorblind because of the success of some African-Americans. Oprah is the richest African-American in America but she ranks at number 221 of Forbes 2014 400 richest Americans with three billion dollars. (Forbes, 2014, 1) We also have an African-American in the highest office in the world, The White House. For some reason this has led to the belief that African- Americans are no longer struggling. For some reason when one succeeds that means we all have but that is so far from the truth. As Michelle Alexander puts it, “The fact that some African Americans have experienced great success in recent years does not mean that something akin to a racial caste system no longer exists. No caste system in the United…
Inequality between men and women in the United States has been going on for as long as know, but in Robert M. Jackson’s Destined for Equality he argues that gender inequality is greatly declining. He asserts that women’s status has risen continuously over the last two centuries due to the changes in modern political and economic organization even if most businessmen and individual politicians believed that women should still remain in their traditional roles. Furthermore, Jackson shows that the government and modern enterprise is not fostering inequality through his examples that he provided to supports his claims and that in fact they are all going toward a gender-neutral approach in improving women’s status.…
In Iris Young’s article “Five Faces of Oppression”, she describes oppression as something that happens when people are put into classified groups, becoming excluded and despised. Young believes that “it is foolish to deny the reality of groups”. She also states that not every group is oppressed and to be oppressed a group must be subjected to one or more of the five conditions or the faces of oppression. They are exploitation, marginalization, powerlessness, cultural imperialism, and violence. In exploitation, capitalism is used to oppress, keeping the rich at the top of the scale and the poor at the bottom.…
This proposed study will be relevant for a myriad of reasons. This study will examine the consequences of the marginalization of African American and other minority informal elder caregivers within formal eldercare services and healthcare environments and its effects their mental and physical health. Mohr and Purdie-Vaughns (2015) state this behavior is intersectional invisibility. The authors describe this conduct as a failure of some people to fully view individuals that have intersecting identities as members of their groups.…
(Monk, 2011, p. 96). Carastathis (2014, p. 307) added that representational intersectionality deals with women of colour and the production of their images drawn on gender and race concepts and also the marginalisation of…
The United States is a diverse country, racially and ethnically. Six races are officially recognized: White, American Indian and Alaska Native, Asian, Black or African American, Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander, and people of two or more races; a race called "Some other race" is also used in the census and other surveys, but is not official. The United States Census Bureau also classifies Americans as "Hispanic or Latino" and "Not Hispanic or Latino", which identifiesHispanic and Latino Americans as a racially diverse ethnicity that composes the largest minority group in the nation.…
As we know it is very statistical for people of the dominant race to have a high position in the work force and usually people who have this position tend to look down to people who they believe are less than them. Especially in the workforce this is one place where it was always competitive and constantly having the knowledge that if you're not doing what needs to be done, you can easily be replaced without any hassle. In addition the factors that are related to work most prominently has three main components which include race, gender, and education. Unlike others some would disagree and say that I’m wrong and the factors to getting a job just deals with education, and in that manner they would be considered wrong. Moreover I say this because…
The word oppression still exists in the everyday lives of women but has changed its tyrannical implications, meaning there is no dictator to influence or force negative actions toward women gender. According to Iris Young, the author of the chapter Five Faces of Oppression, the word oppression has come to represent communities and individuals that are being discriminated by the way society is structured, rather than a single leader oppression. Most people do not think women are subjected to discrimination but it still exists, yet women individually have proven that they are able to overcome it.…
When I first became knowledgeable about intersectionality, I thought of the phrase “white privilege”. I thought about how, in modern time, most individuals truly do not think about how their race, religion, gender, language, and other aspects of their identities impact their daily lives. While I have experienced brief moments in my life where my identities came to light, I never considered how these “labels” benefit me or even make me vulnerable. All of my identities inform my worldview, and just looking through one may not identify my true privilege or vulnerability. Through my identities, I am influenced in the way I see the world.…
Throughout the course of C&T 235, I have learned a vast amount of information regarding the aspect and ideas of race. During the first few weeks of class we dissected races and talked about all the stereotypes about it. We even talked about white privilege which was a term I was aware of from other classes that I have taken here at The University of Kansas. I had prior knowledge of this term, but this class allowed me to really unpack and understand the meaning of this concept. The term white privilege addresses the ways or means that white individuals benefits from not being the racial minority group.…
In our everyday lives we come across barriers, barriers of inequality, barriers of exclusion, barriers that prevent us from accomplishing our goals and ambitions. However, do we let these obstacles get in the way of our wants and desires or our basic rights and privileges? No, we do not. We work as individuals and together to encourage positive change in today’s society. People of the past and present have demanded equality and the right to be included in things rightfully owed to them, resulting in either an influential change that is usually beneficial or occasionally, a hindrance.…
Reflection 11 #Intersectionalcrips was associated with the Disability intersectionality summit but also became something of a response to Disability too white which was created by a Vilissa Thompson that adressed the fact that Disability representation in the media academia government and the non profit sector is over whelming white,straight,is, (often) males so #intersectionalcrips became a way to call attention to and amplify, the ways in which people with multiple marginalized identities experienced disability and how those intersect with their identities. A guy on twitter he wrote his point of view #intersectionalcrip he said that his point of view does not include his own experience as queer disabled person but also (more importantly he thinks) amplifying the experiences an work of disabled activists of color. From a pragmatic point of view, he said that he would really like it if he hashtag #Intersectionalcrips & #Disabilitytoowhie were to get through to some of the large disability & influenced them to be more inclusive with hiring & representation.…
The topic of intersectionality was discussed in our daily interactions during our week 5 discussion. The term intersectionality was actually first coined in 1989 by black legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw within her essay Black legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term “intersectionality” in her profound essay, “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics.” Instersectionality is a sociological theory that discusses how we face discrimination that overlaps minority classes such as race, gender, age, ethnicity, health and other characteristics. Most people usually apply this to only women but it actually applies to all people who suffer…