Examples Of Multiethnic Feminism

Multiracial/Multiethnic feminism conceptualizes that gender is intersected by ethnic, racial, social class, gender discrimination and other aspects of socio cultural categories. The theory “focuses on the combined effects produced by gender, racial, ethnic, and social class disadvantages” (Lorber, 232), which effect men and women differently. The ultimate goal of multiethnic feminists is to highlight the importance of considering all forms of oppression including such as ethnicity, race and social class as one single complex system interconnected with gender and indicates that gender cannot be separated form other forms of domination. This theory asserts that gender is constructed by a range of interlocking inequalities; what Patricia Hill Collins calls a Matrix of Domination. “The matrix of domination is a hierarchical stratification system that explains issues of oppression that deal with race, class, ethnicity and gender
In general, women of colour provide services to their privileged White counterparts. For example in a documentary called My Mother, Your Nanny (2009), an Asian woman comes abroad to Canada to take care of a White family’s kids and leaves her own children behind. This is due to the few resources and access the radicalized group has; hence depend on their privileged counterparts. Multiracial/Multiethnic feminism is also evident within the US since presidency came into play in 1789. As of 2009, the United States of America has not had a radicalized female or male member as a President when Barack Obama was elected as the first African American and radicalized President of the US after two hundred and twenty years of Presidency. Another example that is encountered in the US is how citizenship was defined as white male property owner. In this example we see that white males, patriarchal oppression is presented to white women and women and men of