Crenshaw

1. After reading the article by Crenshaw, I would define intersectionality as a concept to describe race and racism and how they are related and looked at when put together. Intersectionality is important when trying to understand racism and race relations because they go hand in hand and when you understand them together, you better understand the overall idea of them. An example of inequality that is intersectional is racism intersecting with sexism. This is actually an example from class,…

popular culture and in popular contemporary thought. Cultural notions depict black women as sexualized and racialized Jezebels, unfit mothers, welfare queens, and even the impetus for social and moral decline. In response, the authors Kimberlé Crenshaw, Karen McCormack, and Loretta J. Ross use their texts Mapping the Margins, Stratified Reproduction and Poor Women’s Resistance, and The Color of Choice to dismantle, challenge, and disrupt these dominant misconstructions and fallacies through…

As Crenshaw mentions, to categorize and to name is an exercise of power (Crenshaw, 1991, 1297). It is not my intent to suggest it is inherently wrong to acknowledge Crenshaw’s contribution to intersectionality, or in fact, her coining of the phrase. Nor am I suggested that Crenshaw’s work on intersectionality is not valuable and significant. Rather, what I seek to trouble is the social and material consequences of the categorization process (Crenshaw, 1991, 1297). Put another…

Most often female employees are offered a lower salary than their male counterparts for the same job position and equal qualifications. Women in Asia countries earn 54 to 90 percent less than their male counterparts. Most corporations in Asia have no female employee in the senior management. Only 1.1 percent of female across Asia hold a powerful position in corporations such as Chief Executive Officer. In Hong Kong over forty percent of companies have no female on the board of directors. Given…

true. As a result, I have decided to give an insight on the prophetic book of Joel and the message behind this book. In a book titled “Joel: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary,” “the book of Joel consists of seventy-three verses” (Crenshaw, 11). In Crenshaw’s introduction he gives the idea that the book of Joel is clearly written by the prophet, Joel, himself (2008). However, there is no clear indication to tell us exactly when this book of Joel was actually written by the…

oppressions has a couple relations to “intersectionality”. Intersectionality is related to Frye’s bird cage theory because Kowalski and Thompson mentions that the intersectionality theory arose to address black feminism and anti-discrimination law (Crenshaw, p. 172). The cage wires on the bird cage can represent all the hardship these oppressed groups have to face. For example, if a transgender Hispanic women goes out in public, the bird cage wires in her cage would be close together because of…

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…

color have their rights taken away because of stereotypes; women become vulnerable to punishment and constant surveillance. Crenshaw stated, “intersectionality also points to the relationships between established hierarchies that structure the relative vulnerabilities of subjects to the public and private exercises of social power” (Crenshaw, 2012, 1426). By stating this, Crenshaw is concluding that race, gender, and social class intersect to make unjust hierarchies for women and especially…

Oppression can be defined in many ways. The merriam-webster dictionary defines oppression as unjust or cruel exercise of authority or power. A deeper definition of oppression was provided by Marilyn Frye in the reading “Oppression.” Frye defines oppression as the experience of being caged in; all avenues, in every direction, are blocked or booby trapped (Frye, 1983). Race, class, gender, and sexuality systems are all systems of oppression that will be identified in this paper. Race, class,…

different parts of the world. You have individuals who have moved from rural community come too mobile, Alabama where it’s an urban community and a different panorama. I interviewed three individuals who lived in different parts of Alabama. Tykeylia Crenshaw is from Greenville, Alabama, which is a rural community; Erica Staley, is from Andalusia, Alabama a rural community, and Chalnadra Gooden, is from Hoover, Alabama, which is an urban community outside of Birmingham. Moving to Mobile, Alabama…