Identity Diversity And Intersectionality

The film is called the Urgency of Intersectionality by a speaker named Kimberle Crenshaw. The director has done a fantastic job with this film I find it very powerful and touching. I feel like this film is a part of a movement because at the beginning of this film Kimberle Crenshaw asked the audience to stand up, and she said to stand up if anyone in the audience know who these people are. Then she started to naming each individual who were African-American males who were the victims of police brutality. As she spoke on she then proceeded to name the African-American women who were also victims of police brutality for the past two years. Then the audience began to sit down.

Crenshaw et al (2013). Toward a Field of Intersectionality Studies: Theory, Applications, and Praxis. Chicago: The University of Chicago

I attended the Gender, Labor and Politics event provided by the Black Studies Project at UC San Diego. During this event, I was able to hear about the research done by three black women in which they examined the intersectionality of black women in America during different time periods. There were three speakers but I found that the research done by Sarah Haley brought forth the most relevant and interesting information.

Within the community the problem of intersectionality takes place because there are black girls who experience more problems in their delinquent years. Many young black girls are “affected by social problems” (1507) that are presented to them by the communities. 70 percent of these black girls have been “exposed to some form of trauma” (1529). Most of the girls “are more likely to receive harsher punishment than boys for similar offenses” because of their inability to act like ladies. Juveniles are often treated like adult criminals but they cannot afford “the same due process rights as adult criminals” (1514). Whenever black girls are presented to the judge they have a hard time making a first impression because they are do not act like

“Intersectionality is defined as how systems of inequality mutually constitute and reinforce each other (Anderson, 2015).” It is important to understand that gender, race, class and sexuality work simultaneously in interlocking systems of oppression that create inequality. Injustice is not caused by a singular force so it would be a mistake to only examine one variable at a time. For example, if it were true that the Caucasian male was not questioned or arrested on the basis of his skin color than there would not be any Caucasian males in prison for theft.

Crenshaw, Kimberle. 1991. “Mapping the Margins of Intersectionality, Identity Politics and Violence Against Women of Color”. Standford Law Review. Vol. 43, No. 6-1241-1299. The article analyzes how structural intersectionality, political intersectionality and representational intersectionality marginalize women of color within antiracist, feminist movements and organizations. She denotes the dynamics of structural intersesectionality during her visit in women’s shelter. The author illustrates other forms of domination that women of color experience when they go to the shelter. Because women with low socioeconomic groups face a lot of physical assault that send them there, they become double victims of the justice system. For instance, Kimberle (1991) reveals how counselors who provide crisis services to women of color report that a significant proportion of the resources allocated to them must be spent handling problems other than rape itself (p.1250). This example demonstrates how bureaucratic structure of this agency does not address the needs of racially underprivileged women. Instead, its reforms and resources are created for white middle class women. In this context, of structural

Describe the person; based on the concept of intersectionality, what can you share about their identity?

And sometimes they experience discrimination as black women- not for the sum of race and sex discrimination, but as black women” (Crenshaw, 1989 pg. 385). These structures of oppression work together to exclude and harm people in a way that eliminates their chances of a equal opportunities to those that aren’t affected by the concept of intersectionality.

It provides firsthand experience to “Lesbians in Revolt”, “A Black Feminist Statement” and “A Culture of Romance”. Black Feminist is a political statement of intersectionality. Intersectionality is a fairly new focus, even though in all of these work, but especially in “A Black Feminist Statement”, intersectionality is discussed. Kimberlé Crenshaw, the executive director of the African American Policy Forum and a professor of law at Columbia University, said it best in the Washington Post on September 24, 2015. “Intersectionality was a lived reality before it became a term”. One of the women in my group described exactly what all three of these works tried to emphasize. Being in marginalized group is a battle in America, being in apart of many marginalized groups is a constant war. This was a common sentiment. Even a s young adults people are tired of being in a constant fight for their rights, however they will never give up the fight for equality. Thar resilience is exactly what Charlotte bunch is expressing in Lesbians in revolt, lesbianism is a threat to male supremacy. This is true of all intersectionally marginalized people, to the class of people who deny our rights. Brunch highlights that supremacy is expressed through ideological, political, personal, and economics means. All these things make a person and what they struggle to fight. The Combahee river collective expressed that one of the biggest problems of organizing black feminist is trying to fight oppression on a full range of oppression. What we have learned in class has been lived by many of these people. If it hasn’t been lived, they are aware of struggle and any are willing to fight for all of their

black women could not relate to the white women that were speaking out about it

The theory of intersectionality as a research tool has practical implications in political practice and public policy. This allows for greater efforts to be made to address the structural disparity between women’s rights based on factors such as race, class, sexuality, ability and so on. The importance of implementing intersectionality, as a feminist theory, within these spheres is that significant changes can occur and this can allow for more adequate policies in regards to women’s needs. There has been further discussion surrounding how developing ideas of intersectionality towards these structures and institutions will allow for further debunking of politicized identities, which I will further discuss in this essay as posing a limitation

The upcoming analysis of intersectionality threatens the hetropatriarcy society we live in. The idea of hetropatriarcy falls back to colonization by the Europeans. The colonization created the notion of gendered conquest. The Europeans created stereotypes and disregarded

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Lawson, A., & Schiek, D. (2011). European Union Non-Discrimination Law and Intersectionality : Investigating the Triangle of Racial, Gender and Disability Discrimination. Burlington, VT: Routledge.

Race, class, and gender should not define who a single person is, yet every day we are put into single categories based on what we were born as.  Intersectionality works towards social justice, and helps people specifically understand human differences.  I deal with sexism and racism daily.  I am always being told that just because I am a woman I can’t do the same things as a man.  Typically, when a man is demanding he's known as being "the boss" but when a woman does the same she's "a bitch."  Growing up I was very privileged in having the chance to attend a Catholic grammar school and a Catholic High School.  Normally when I tell people that aren’t from Catholic schools where I attended (an all-girls Catholic High School) I get told "you