Intersectionality: The Importance Of Gender

MIDTERM PAPER # 1 In this response, I will focus and convey the importance of gender in the eyes of race; how it affects woman of color who are affected by racism and murders, how girls are not allowed to be sexual and only aspire to their dreams and lastly how patriarchy sees gender and race. Intersectionality is a theory in which race, poverty and patriarchy work as one in the oppression on women. The kind of oppression these women have shapes them into a feminist that realizes and fights for those who experience the same issues. Those issues of race and patriarchy status make the women realize how gender and violence are created and fought for in their own way. There are several principals to Intersectionality, the first being there is …show more content…
The group of girls grew up in South Philadelphia, which may have had an influence in their ideas and how they handled the criticism from their parents. The girls, who were all quite young in the beginning of the film where already having issues with figuring out their sexuality; since South Philadelphia is portrayed with being a bad community due to drug abuse and gang violence this could have affected how the girls grew up. The girls were all different races; Anna a Vietnamese America, De’Yona an African American, Lisa an Italian American and Reline a European-Native American. Each of the girl’s race shows throughout the documentary how different each girl was raised and how they were treated in their area. Anna was brought up to only care about school and not care at all about boys, she was told by her father to not be a hoe or slut so that strayed her away from boys for a while. Anna’s Asian father thought it was normal and perfect for his son to come home with a different girl daily, but if Anna was seen even looking at a boy she would be told to stop being a hoe and to think about school which is obviously unfair because a girl should also be allowed to explore her sexuality. Her fathers race culture conflicted Anna’s freedom in South Philadelphia, since her father was not brought up there his strictness brought back his daughter and not have her explore her sexuality. De’Yona cared about gospel singing more than she cared about boys, she was determined to succeed and become a famous gospel singer. She struggled in the documentary with the death of her cousin, which was never explained in the documentary, but it could have been gang related. De’Yona struggled with the death of her cousin so she had trouble continuing through high school. In the location that these girls were born in is not the best, but they