Kimberle Crenshaw's Concept Of Intersectionality?

The debate on race has been a complex topic raising many conflicts for many years, for it differentiates the views of society on human beings. For decades, there have been a great number of researches on race, where anthropologists and geneticists have proven that there are no differences between what society calls ‘races’. There is one race; it is the human race. We all possess the same physical attributes that make us humans: a body with limbs, eyes, nose, ears, etc.…. As a way to group and classify humans based on color, hair and facial features, racial categories are explained as reasons of identity, a sense of order to help us understanding our world and the different people living in it but it has nothing to do with biology. The different skin tones …show more content…
The article argues that the discrimination women of color face are a combination of racism and sexism, not one or the other. For Crenshaw, the term “intersectionality” is a simple word with a great number of meanings, because “it managed to encompass in a single word the simultaneous experience of the multiple oppressions faced by black women’. It’s the way women of color experiences life based on different identities. She discusses how white women get more benefits than women of color, simply because of a number of different factors. Intersectionality is set to draw attention to the forgotten or invisible women of color. The level of violence black women are facing is not only limited to conjugal violence, but also due to police brutality, no matter their ages, locations and conditions. Crenshaw argues that while such stories about women being killed while black are real, there is a lack of media attention and society outcry that could shed light on the violence, humiliation and oppressions women of color face, and to bear witness to the problem in order to fix the