I also agree that intersectionality have a huge influence in the struggles that Laverne Coz is facing right now. In her speech, she listed some of her multiple identities such as being born as African American transgender woman, comes from a working class background, and raised by a single mother. All these identities intersect with one another causing discriminations. In her speech, she points out the obstacle that the transgender are facing in the community. Also in regards to the definition of a woman provided by Sojourner Truth and Simone de Beauvior, Laverne Coz has her own definition of what is a woman. She became a woman not because she was born as one, but because she chose to be one. She made into a woman not in reference…
Linda Chavez is a prominent Hispanic-American conservative Political Columnist. She has written many political columns over the years, using her personal experiences and political expertise to develop a rapport with her readers. Ms. Chavez utilizes several sound writing techniques to engage the reader. She employs factual evidence, appeals to logic and appeals to emotion.…
Miss F is 23 year old Hispanic female who presents today complaining of sharp, epigastric abdominal pain of 3-4 months duration. The pain has not changed or worsened acutely;. The pain is located in the epigastric region and left upper quadrant of the abdomen. It does not radiate. The pain is relatively constant throughout the day and night but does vary in severity. She rates the pain as 5/10 and remains the same. She…
Before intersectionality, individuals were forced to assign themselves to only one identity at a time (Phoenix, 2006). As such, a black, Muslim, female with a low socioeconomic status previous to intersectionality would have had to choose one of her identities to associate with- whereas now she would be able to assign herself to each of these identities and present herself as a product of the way they mesh together. Feminist literature describes that whilst most women understood and accepted the dominance approach that describes males’ social power over women, the ‘hegemony of feminisms that is constructed primarily around the lives of white–middle class women’ was rarely discussed before intersectionality (Baca Zinn & Thornton Dill, 1996).…
Cesar Chavez was the leader of a union. He dedicated his life to help the farm workers and get them their fair rights. Cesar Chavez was born on March 31, 1927, and was a labor organizer, he formed the UFW in 1965 and many farm workers joined and fought for their rights. Cesar Chavez helped many people and will always be remembered as a Hispanic leader.…
some sense of these examples from novels such as The Great Gatsby and Bodega Dreams. During the early 1920’s, The Great Gatsby takes place in Long Island, New York where the community mostly consist of rich white people. Then there’s Bodega Dreams which sets in the 1990’s in Spanish Harlem, New York where the community would mostly consist of latinos/latinas. The two novels present us with examples of how race can impact our society.…
An example in the health care context is that in a walk-in clinic a nurse lets people with a heterosexual orientation get seen before people of a homosexual orientation, instead of making everyone equally wait their turn. This would be a sign of the nurse not giving the people of homosexual orientation have an equal chance at being seen by the doctor. This is lack of equality and also discrimination of sexual orientation. In order to correct this, the nurse needs to set out the order of who gets to see the doctor first either by time they have been waiting or the direness of their injuries, this way she is not discriminating or taking away the equality of people within the clinic as she is not basing the waiting list on factors such as gender, race, sexual orientation, e.c.t.…
Housing and community- this could link in well with another type of poverty and low income based problems. If someone is living in cramped conditions were they have to sleep in the same room as a…
The definition of intersectionality states that it is the social theory suggesting various socially and culturally constructed categories of discrimination interact on multiple and often simultaneous levels, contributing to systematic social inequality.…
U.S. Census Bureau (2001) - Overview of Race and Hispanic Origin, Retrieved July 3, 2010 from http://www.census.gov/prod/2001pubs/c2kbr01-1.pdf…
The importance of an intersectional mindset is key to seeing why previous researchers have fallen short in their findings, as well as how to successfully move forward. I draw from Kimberlé Crenshaw’s term “intersectionality” coined in 1989. While this term often used in the field of women’s and gender studies, the nature of the concept is crucial to understanding the current issue of Pennsylvania gerrymandering. Crenshaw states that issues of oppression must be looked at, through the intersection of identities because “we don’t live one issue lives,” (The Urgency of Intersectionality).…
My first example of institutionalized discrimination exists in the public school system. There is a huge educational gap among urban public schools and suburban public schools, essentially, among white and minority students. In many states, educational systems have imposed standardized testing as a requirement for graduation from high school. I believe that these implementations are a strategic effort to weed out minorities from achieving higher education and decrease the opportunity to move up in social class. Though state educational systems cannot formally institute discriminatory practices, they can subtly implement requirements such as these testing procedures. As a product of an inner city urban public school, I have experienced this first hand. Guiner and Torres (2009) discussed that a lack of education hinders social mobility, which essentially reinforces racial inequality.…
In Adrian’s case, he was discriminated against for being gay and having AIDS,which was generally associated with homosexuals. He lived in San Francisco for a while where having AIDS and being gay was common, but when he contracted HIV he came back to his home town to die. Adrian’s family who is very wealthy does not want him around because of having AIDS. He is discriminated when he also goes to live with ___. While living in the black side of town, Adrian is constantly denied basic rights and normal privledges that most humans, even the blacks at the time, were given. An example would be when he wanted to go to the library. Adrian wanted to go to the drug store to pick up some wine but wasn’t strong enough to walk there or was safe at the time of night. Adrian’s care taker called up her neighbor from across the street to do it. Every thing was going smoothly until Adrian tried to hand the man money. This is discrimination because of the fact that the man didn’t take the money because he was infected with AIDS. Another time was when he wanted to go to the library and couldn’t get there because it was across town and once again was not strong enough to get there. Adrian’s caretaker called up a taxi service for him but the taxi driver wouldn’t allow him into the car because he had AIDS.…
Race, class, and gender all contribute but are not necessarily equally visible/important in certain contexts (ex. in South America, racial oppression is more dominant whereas in Haiti, social class oppression is more dominant); however, the fact that one category has a larger impact in certain situations does not undermine the theoretical importance of assuming race, class, and gender as categories of analysis. Race, class and gender are all present in a given setting even though one category may be more visible or appear more important than others.…
The economic class that people belong to affords them certain privileges or disadvantages, depending on their status. For someone who is middle class or above, there are resources available that they can use in order to improve their experience. Middle class people of color are afforded this same kind of access, which they can use as well, but it is not quite the same as for those who are white. Often, people of color have to access and show their resources more than white people since they are mistreated and often assumed to be of a lower class, and therefore unable to take any actions.…