Intersectionality

called intersectionality. Intersectionality enables one’s critical thinking about a person’s interconnected multiple identities and also goes into a deep investigation about how these identities are interwoven into society’s power structures as to discover the roots of inequality. This is accomplished by embarking into an in-depth analysis of the concepts of power, such as zero-sum, empowerment and hierarchies of privilege. As Bromley has thoroughly supported and emphasized, intersectionality…

violence against women are Radical Feminism and Intersectionality. This essay will explore how both theories illuminate the gender inequality of violence against women and how they…

6). This Black community was seen as disposable and disregarded (Pulido 2016, 6). . Many human lives were neglected based on race and income because those individuals couldn’t afford to relocate for fresh water. This is another case where Intersectionality would shine some light on the privileges and opportunities that were taken from the people of Flint,…

Women and Religion is a very complex topic and is different for every religion and personal experience. Two memoir that were assigned throughout the semester show personal stories of women trying to find their place within their religion or religions. Other readings that related to these two personal stories are about veiling and how society is taking a view and a market on veiling of Muslim women within the western culture and within Islam. The first memoir that was assigned within class was…

identity. We looked at events that occurred throughout the United States and at the University of Colorado Boulder. We also did some research on specific events that occurred in Colorado as our final project. All of the events were focused on intersectionality of race, sexual orientation, gender choice, colonialism, cultural appropriation and ethnocentrism. One of the most interesting and new information that I learned in this class was the story of “Los 5 de Boulder”. We looked at newspapers…

Paper 4: Assessing Critical Public Policy Scholarship Anne Schneider and Helen Ingram authors of Policy Design for Democracy, state that Critical Theories Public Policy is concerned with “.....oppression and domination in modern advanced societies and a commitment to radically participatory, non hierarchical forms of political, economic, and social interaction” (Schneider and Ingram, 1997, p. 51). This critical perspective challenges the scientific knowledge being superior to other categories…

of Black Feminist Thought For this week, we read Combahee River Collective, “A Black Feminist Statement,” “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color,” by Kimberle Crenshaw and the book Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics by Joy James. Our discussion focuses on feminist thought and intersectionality. The Combahee River Collective’s aim was to combat the oppressions experienced by all women of color and to acknowledge the…

Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where we have to sleep with our telephones off the hooks because our lives be threatened daily, because we want to live as decent human beings, in America? -Fannie Lou Hamer, 1964 Democratic Convention Introduction Fannie Lou Hamer fought all of her life for equality. She fought to live in a society where she was afforded the human rights she deserved – the human rights she was promised by the United States Constitution. Hamer who…

Intersectionality must be understood and utilized to eliminate biases in public health and health care systems so that they can deliver cultural competent solutions to combat the high prevalence of HIV in the black gay male population. According to Hancock, “Paradigm intersectionality seeks to jettison the additive-binary-zero-sum calculus, conceptualizing individuals, for example, as bundles…

Matthew Desmond explains the concept of intersectionality and how being a white female is different than being a black female. Intersectionality is overlapping social identity, race, age, income, gender, and related systems and looking at it as one. As a woman, I can say that I have different privileges than males. As a white, middle-class,…