Intersectionality

The web definition for intersectionality theory is defined as he interconnected nature of social categorization such as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or groups, regarded as creating overlapping and independent systems of discrimination or disadvantage. In simplistic form, notion that is constructed by mutually reinforcing vectors of race, gender, class, and sexuality. It is a useful strategy for linking the grounds of discrimination to social, economic, political…

The South-East Asian Refugees’ Experience of Intersectionality in America Intersectionality has been widely used by social scientists to explain social identities in relation to systems of oppression. Some of the areas the term has been applied include race, gender, and class due to their interconnectivity. From Eric Tang’s “Organizing in Poor Immigrant Communities: Starting from Scratch in the Bronx”, “How Refugees Stopped the Bronx from Burning,” and Maliha Safri and Julie Graham’s “The…

expanded my outlook on many different situations such as immigration, child labour, and identity. One discussion that stood out to me was the discussion about intersectionality. Intersectionality would be defined as a framework for describing a person or social problem that provides fuller and more complex understandings…

obtain different identities, which subject them to different groups. Sometimes the accumulation of different identities puts an individual in privileged and unprivileged states. The Intersectionality of identities may cause…

The first example from this semester 's reading that expanded my understanding of intersectionality is Andrea Smith’s (2015), Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide. One of the pieces of valuable information I learned during our study of Native American is that sexual violence is a tool of racism (p. 29) and that the United States government condoned abuse, rape and murder of Native Americans when they knowingly concealed guilty rapists and murders. A decision that rendered…

Intersectionality, as described by Patricia Hill Collins, is “involving interlocking systems of oppressions that reinforce each other in a matrix of domination” (Collins, 2000). This intersectionality includes four important oppressions that reinforce one another: race, gender, class, and sexuality. Prime examples of these intersections can be found within the three waves of feminism. These intersections are also connected to power in many ways, and where the power lies. It is important to…

The concept of intersectionality “is the insight that different forms of inequality should not be analyzed separate and distinct from each other, but instead as interacting or intersecting with each other” (Smiet, 2015, p. 10). In order to understand fully the experiences of marginalized groups, there must be an examination of the intersection of race, gender, class, religion, and sexual orientation (Schramm-Pate, 2017). During the 19th century, the abolition and suffrage movements excluded…

How Intersectionality is Reflected in the Media The media has just recently (in the past years) started picking up on queer and transgender representation. There are shows like Modern Family, Glee, and How to get Away with Murder that have gay couples as reoccurring cast; in these shows there are topics about common struggles in the LGBT+ community discussed. Although this is progression, there is not enough intersectionality portrayed within the media. Intersectionality is a huge determining…

will focus on why we, as society, must look at gender through the eyes of race and racism. I will do this by explaining the concept of intersectionality and its effect on gender oppression. Before I explain how different racial groups experience gender oppression, we must first understand intersectionality. According to Patricia Hill Collins, intersectionality is described as the combination of factors such as: race, gender, sexuality, socioeconomic class, and nationality, and how it works…

According to Uwujaren and Utt (2015), intersectionality is the connected nature of race, class and gender. These categories apply to any individual or group and are interdependent systems of oppression and discrimination (p.2). By applying an intersectional view to men and women, we can see that race and normative femininity both play large roles in how people are treated when they are victims or offenders of crime. Chann and Chunn (2014) state that racialized men and women are assumed to be…