The American professor and critical theorist Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the word intersectionality as a term to use for many types of discrimination. She offered a definition to gender oppression, inequality in work places and society in the lives of black women; particularly in the US, a defined word that many can identify and relate to in the world today. To explain how she defined such multi categorized pattern of bias activity she used the idea of a traffic intersection. “an analogy to traffic in an intersection, coming and going in all four directions. Discrimination, like traffic through an intersection, may flow in one direction, and it may flow in another (…) But it is not always easy to reconstruct an accident: Sometimes the skid marks
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“Black feminist politics also have an obvious connection to movements for Black liberation, particularly those of the 1960s and I970s […] There is also undeniably a personal genesis for Black Feminism, that is, the political realization that comes from the seemingly personal experiences of individual Black women's lives. Black feminists and many Black women who do not define themselves as feminists have all experienced sexual oppression as a constant factor in our day-to-day existence” (The Combahee river collective). They state that black feminist groups started in the 1960s, over the years the black feminist movement has been over shadowed and slowed by white people and their ideas and tactics to farther advance their endeavors. Going back to the notion of intersectionality, Combahee river collective undertook the issues of racism in the lives of black women. In their testament, they convey the oppression black women faced on daily basis, and how they are the last to succeed in society due to …show more content…
She explains how we cannot define discrimination in one word. Such writers as audre lorde, Adrienne rich, bell hooks and the Combahee river collective anticipated that discrimination among women in the US is more than just gender based. They also believed that discrimination among black lives ran rampant due to the confusion of what “feminism “stood for. As Crenshaw, these critical theorists also predicted race, gender, classism would also play a huge roll in the feminist movement across the
“Black feminist politics also have an obvious connection to movements for Black liberation, particularly those of the 1960s and I970s […] There is also undeniably a personal genesis for Black Feminism, that is, the political realization that comes from the seemingly personal experiences of individual Black women's lives. Black feminists and many Black women who do not define themselves as feminists have all experienced sexual oppression as a constant factor in our day-to-day existence” (The Combahee river collective). They state that black feminist groups started in the 1960s, over the years the black feminist movement has been over shadowed and slowed by white people and their ideas and tactics to farther advance their endeavors. Going back to the notion of intersectionality, Combahee river collective undertook the issues of racism in the lives of black women. In their testament, they convey the oppression black women faced on daily basis, and how they are the last to succeed in society due to …show more content…
She explains how we cannot define discrimination in one word. Such writers as audre lorde, Adrienne rich, bell hooks and the Combahee river collective anticipated that discrimination among women in the US is more than just gender based. They also believed that discrimination among black lives ran rampant due to the confusion of what “feminism “stood for. As Crenshaw, these critical theorists also predicted race, gender, classism would also play a huge roll in the feminist movement across the