I have chosen to write about intersectionality, a study introduced to contemporary feminist theory by Kimberle W. Crenshaw. The study consists of “various ways in which race and gender intersect in shaping structural, political and representational aspects of violence against women of color etc.
Structural intersectionality in regards to racism contributes to the silence of violence; as in the issue raised regarding the marriage fraud provision of the Immigration and Nationalities act. This act involved immigrants who remained properly married to united citizens for 2 years in order to become permanent residents in the United States. Most endured battery, extreme cruelty and were reluctant to leave due to fear of being deported etc. Congress …show more content…
In addition, unlike the issue regarding rape crisis services, I personally recall having knowledge about a trend of immigrants buying their way into the United States in exchange for citizenship in the 80’s. In many cases the citizen(s) would receive thousands of dollars in cash upon their arrival, after the marriage ceremony was completed, some would move on with their lives and others would live together in separate beds. After several months prior to the date of the annulment period the couple would get an annulment or divorce.
On the other hand, political consequences occur with feminist failure to interrogate race, which means that the resistance strategies of feminism will often replicate and reinforce the subordination of people of color, and the failure of antiracism to interrogate patriarchy means that antiracism will frequently reproduce the subordination of women. These mutual elisions present a particularly difficult political dilemma for women of color. Adopting either analysis constitutes a denial of fundamental dimensions of our subordination and precludes the development of a political discourse that more fully empowers women of
Structural intersectionality in regards to racism contributes to the silence of violence; as in the issue raised regarding the marriage fraud provision of the Immigration and Nationalities act. This act involved immigrants who remained properly married to united citizens for 2 years in order to become permanent residents in the United States. Most endured battery, extreme cruelty and were reluctant to leave due to fear of being deported etc. Congress …show more content…
In addition, unlike the issue regarding rape crisis services, I personally recall having knowledge about a trend of immigrants buying their way into the United States in exchange for citizenship in the 80’s. In many cases the citizen(s) would receive thousands of dollars in cash upon their arrival, after the marriage ceremony was completed, some would move on with their lives and others would live together in separate beds. After several months prior to the date of the annulment period the couple would get an annulment or divorce.
On the other hand, political consequences occur with feminist failure to interrogate race, which means that the resistance strategies of feminism will often replicate and reinforce the subordination of people of color, and the failure of antiracism to interrogate patriarchy means that antiracism will frequently reproduce the subordination of women. These mutual elisions present a particularly difficult political dilemma for women of color. Adopting either analysis constitutes a denial of fundamental dimensions of our subordination and precludes the development of a political discourse that more fully empowers women of