Intersectionality

Purpose of the Study There are numerous studies that have focused on the African American male and to their development and persistence from a quantitative standpoint. A few qualitative studies have used Critical Race Theory (CRT) as a theory. African American Male Theory (AAMT) is a relatively new theory that has been identified and would be an additional piece of work to add to the study. Even though CRT and AAMT are similar, there has not been much investigation related to using AAMT…

In the United States the gay rights movement has undergone huge advances within the last century. These advances range from a variety of social topics including the legalization of gay marriage, allowing individuals to openly serve in the military, and even gain the basic right to lead and volunteer for a boy scout troop. In fact, most of these advances stem from legislation and social protest/movements within the past twenty years. With all of these monumental and speedy advances with gay…

The weeks where we learned about whiteness and the property value of whiteness helped me learn about myself and learn from myself. One thing I learned about myself, which was the toughest thing to learn about myself, but it is getting easier to accept is that I fit into the category of a closet racist like Paul Gorski talks about in his article “Language of Closet Racism: An Illustration”. It was hard to accept at first because I always believed that I was a person who never discriminate against…

The Dinner Party and Second Wave Feminism The 1960’s and 70’s was a period defined by change. During the civil rights movement, the American population became increasingly aware of the struggles of minority groups. This newfound awareness paved the way for second wave feminism. The objective of second wave feminism was the liberation of women, with respect to reproductive rights and sexuality among other things, and the primary means of expression of these ideals were through protest,…

I first became familiar with the relationship between feminism and disability when I was assigned reading from the anthology Feminist Disability Studies. With essays from writers such as Rosemarie Garland-Thomson and Alison Kafer, it is an incredibly powerful collection, demonstrating how the interests of feminist theory and disability studies overlap. And yet, despite the efforts of these scholars and disabled feminists in academia and in activist groups, disability does not seem to be on the…

 Karen D. Pyke and Denise L. Johnson, “Asian American Women and Racialized Femininities: “Doing” Gender Across Cultural Worlds,” Gender & Society, 2003. Incorporating race and sexual orientation in a social constructionist system, the creators analyze the way that second-age Asian American young ladies portrayed over ethnic and standard settings, and in addition their presumptions about the idea of Asian and white femininities. This study of meetings with 100 little girls of Korean and…

there would be a loss of black pride in African American communities. The methods that DuBois implemented in his examination of the Seventh Ward are similar to those still used in sociology today, but differs as DuBois did not focus as much on intersectionality as prevailing approaches do. This is justified, as DuBois spent his life trying to get African Americans to be recognized as…

doctors and male doctors make about $20,000 more than women doctors. We often hear about the wage gap between men and women but I was shocked about how huge the wage gap was between black and white doctors. This is even worse when you consider Intersectionality, black women could potentially get paid some where between $20,000-80,000 less than her fellow doctors. They gave three possible reasons for the age gap between men and women. One reason was women are less aggressive when negotiating…

Grass Ceiling “Are you kidding me?” I groaned boisterously as the last remaining trimming string snapped and the weed whacker gradually churned to a stop. I had been so consumed by my thoughts of planning my senior speech, crafting my life plan of becoming a nurse anesthetist, and figuring out what I wanted to eat for breakfast, I failed to notice my quickening pace and that I had outworked the machine. It was a humid Sunday; the grass was still wet with morning dew when I had abruptly woken up…

The Hidden Treasure of Black ASL: Its History and Structure, by Carolyn McCaskill aims to highlight the significance of black ASL culture, its historical timeline, and its detailed and distinctive linguistics from mainstream ASL. With this, McCaskill challenges the complexities of mainstream ASL by focusing on Black and brown individuals who are hard of hearing. The motif of the author is clear, Caroline begins to empower black ASL, by stressing the importance of highlighting passed-down, black…