Kimberle Crenshaw coined the term intersectionality in this very essay. Her usage of the term was in conjunction with Black women in the United States and how they are being oppressed because of their race and gender. Crenshaw focuses on gender and race in this very paper, she argues that race and gender should be looked at as cohesive terms, rather than different frameworks in cases that involve Black women that encounter a combination of sex and racial discrimination. This is looking more beyond than racism and sexism, it is building solidarity between the lines of structural differences. Crenshaw uses the metaphor of traffic intersection and crossroads to better illustrate the meaning of intersectionality.…
It is up to those identities to help create a purpose to allow their identity to become more apparent. She ends that as people we get to choose our family. That we have the opportunity to build our happiness with the people we get to choose and who enhances it. I wanted to ask Janet “You talk about intersectionality, and how can society make intersectionality more of an apparent identity, so society does not have to eliminate the separation on what issues to fight for (e.g Trans and Black issues).” Janet had brilliant and eloquence on presenting her book and talking about her experience. The take away message is that society cannot separate issues because one issue is connected to several other issues that are not being identified. Society has to incorporate intersectionality into the fight for social…
Intersectionality, as described by Crenshaw and Spelman, is the notion that the identities of a person are interdependent on one another and thus cannot be fully separated. Spelman uses an analogy of people entering doors (identities), trying to prioritize which of them they identify with most. We cannot choose, for these identities are interdependent. For example, race directly affects the experience of being a woman. To be a woman who is Black involves different strife, experiences, and thus identity, than a woman who is White. Because of this, Crenshaw argues, the needs of a Black woman are inherently different from that needs of a White woman. Essentialism, the idea that all persons of an identity group hold a universal truth about them, is thus disputed by Crenshaw. She claims that issues portrayed to be issues of all women turn out to be only the issues of select women, who are particularly white. As we set forth to fix issues facing women, then, issues faced by the Black woman become ignored, either leaving her behind or further harming her.…
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).…
These are all bound together and inseparable elements. These foundations are largely materialist, describing disadvantaged identities as historically constituted, rather than innate. Focusing exclusively on one dynamic while ignoring the intersections of other structures of disadvantage often produce biased and inaccurate generalizations. Intersectionality recognizes that multiple oppressions are not each suffered separately but rather as a single, synthesized experience. Rather than having any unified canon, this concept draws primarily from direct experiences of the…
Intersectionality is a term that was first founded by American professor Kimbrle Creshnaw in 1989. According to Oxford Dictionaries, intersectionality is “The interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination…
Since the early stages of the desegregation of United States schools in the late 1950s and early 1960s, the unique challenges of black females have given researchers unique challenges, posed fundamental questions, and necessitated debate over the treatment of gender and race-based two-tiered patriarchies (Fordham 3). Despite the increased focus on the black experience in public schools due to the civil rights movements of the 1960s and increasing focus on racial equality in United States public schools, black females were often either misrepresented or unclassified as a distinct group. Because feminist epistemologies tend to be concerned with the education of White girls and women, and raced-based epistemologies tend to be consumed with the…
Intersectionality means the way terms of oppression interconnect. When applying for college, it will be helpful because colleges want to be more diverse. Colleges want to help people and they feel they need to help people that have been more oppressed. The majority of scholarships would possibly go to a lower class, disabled women or an Hispanic, transgender person. These people have overcome obstacles such as bullying and emotional abuse so affirmative action would be put into affect to get them into action.…
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TDA24-1 Understand the importance of promoting equality and diversity in work with children and young people…
It is important to reflect upon how gender roles and expectations have changed in accordance to other issues such as age, social background/class, race and disability, this is called intersectionality. Intersectionality is a term coined by Kimberle Crenshaw (1989), an American professor and noted that feminist theory focused on white, middle-class females and it disregarded different groups of women who have different ‘layers’ of life to contend with. A modern example how this issue has changed and progressed in the last 30 years is Dame Tanni Grey- Thompson. She is an 11 gold Paralympian who, through her determination in the face of her disability, Spina Bifida has made her an international sporting hero and increased awareness of Paralympic…
1. Identify the current legislation and codes of practice relevant to the promotion of equality and valuing of diversity.…
Codes of practice and charters: codes of conduct established by professional bodies; General Social Care Council/Care Council for Wales/Northern Ireland Social Care Council codes of practice and rules of conduct for social care workers and employers; charters, eg entitlement to services Organisational policies and procedures: positive promotion of, eg individual rights, advocacy, work…
Intersectionality for Black Feminist became a source of knowledge for those who have multiple and overlapping identities. Black feminist writings have increasingly become more visible to the public and their writings have a narrative structure, focusing on the idea of hybridity. Black feminist experiences can show many other oppressed groups the universe of domination that has existed in society and their institutions. Intersectionality works together with Black feminism to resist such dominations…
Diversity means differences and variations, within in people for example different races, beliefs, physical appearances, age, capabilities, customs and gender and class.…