Mohr and Purdie-Vaughns (2015) relate this behavior to intersectional invisibility. The authors define it as the general failure of people to fully recognize individuals with intersecting identities as members of their constituent groups (Mohr & Purdie-Vaughns, 2015). In addition, the authors theorize that people who have multiple subordinate group identities such as African American women and African American gay persons are inclined to be labeled as non-prototypical members of each of the groups to which they belong (Mohr & Purdie-Vaughs, 2015).
