Intersectionality: An Analysis Of Different Reactions Of Onlookers

Intersectionality is defined as “a way to describe and recognize the ways in which race, class, gender, and sexuality work together to shape our life chances, experiences, and positions within society” (Lecture, Barnes). It is the impact that one’s characteristics, including but not limited to race, gender, economic status, age, health and sexuality, has on their experiences and positions within life. The intersection of one’s characteristics impacts the life chances given to an individual. If one’s characteristics fall into a minority group within society, they tend to be marginalized and face more discrimination, than say a white, heterosexual, upper class, man in present day American society. This can also be seen within the Social Construct

Intersectionality has truly opened my eyes in cases where there is a possibility where two systems of oppression can be working together to make life a struggle for a certain group or race. In the political world when someone feels that they are being mistreated or being taken advantage of they make their voice heard. They search for the correct people to help them in their situation and once in court and they feel that they have been mistreated for example racially and gender discrimination the question now becomes well which one is it? Gender or race? It cannot be both. Well, why can’t we choose both options each is a brick in the wall of oppression that everyone has faced at least once in their life. Not to generalize the fact that people face more walls in their life than others based on certain privileges from the type of skin, class, or the global power of wealth and how much it is used for ill intentions. Intersectionality creates lenses in seeing the “bricks” of the wall, seeing what each one stands for and what it does to us. However, it also shows us where it is weak and way for us as scholars to find the weak points and change our groups future where we will no longer fear to speak about the injustices we see every day and will be able to fight and give knowledge to our “enemy” as well for they could see their error as well.

Intersectionality holds that the theories of oppression within society do not act independently of each other, but are interrelated. This creates a system of oppression that reflects the intersection of multiple forms of discrimination. An advantage would be recognizing that all people are at the center of multiple intersections of power, inequality and privilege. They are shaped by their class, race and gender. These categories represent our views of the world and our actions taken, and includes other peoples views of us. No one fits into just one category because we have multiple categories. Within our own identities, we form our opinions of what we constitute as legal or illegal, right or wrong, and necessary or unnecessary.

I liked one definition of intersectionality which I would like to put here. “Intersectionality seeks to provide a tool for analyzing the ways in which gender, race, class and all other forms of identity and distinction, in different contexts, produce situations in which women and men become vulnerable to abuse and discrimination.”(1). When we try to study how the intersection of race, gender, social class, effects humans and how are they connected then it means we are using intersectionality theory. For example what are the problems of white, young, female and what are the problems of black, young female. What will happen if we remove young from the equation and replace it with old? Inequality of gender is clearly defined but inequality of same sex is complicated. If we want to know the problems of women and man then we might just find some sex related issues. But when we talk about just men or women then it’s a different story. I heard that all men are created equal but people use different lens to see it. For example, some time man is called black man or white man, Muslim man or Christian man. They are all men but their gender intersects with other identities and makes them different from one another. When somebody is discriminated on the basis of color, we know this exist. Intersectionality tells us about other kind of discrimination. For example black man with different religion. It means same gender, same color, same language but different religion.

The central idea of this article is about the unfair treatment people are facing because of intersectionality. Such as Nicole, her grades are suffering, shes always late to class,etc. As The teachers dont dig deep into why she is late and her grades are suffering. They believe because she is a female African she is not doing well in her classes. What they dont know is that her socioeconomic status is low, and she has to take care of her two younger siblings.

Intersectionality has a significant impact on the feminist movement for several reasons; first is recognition of varying oppressions, second the inclusiveness of others facing oppression, and third how the recognition and inclusiveness can help reach equality. Intersectionality and the growing recognition of it has provided a better look at the amount of different oppressions that exist Through the understanding of intersectionality it becomes clear that race and sex are not the only factions that experience oppression, this awareness has led to the desire to “address a whole range of oppression.” (Combahee, pg. 4) Race and sex are no longer the sole focus of

Intersectionality is the concept that no one has a simple, uncomplicated identity based on race alone. Each African American male has an identity, which intersects with class, sex, sexual orientation, political orientation, disability and personal history informing each person's complex identity. Therefore, the theory

In this patriarchal and capitalist society, we are socially constructed to think we all have the same opportunity to succeed. Today, intersectionality issues play a huge role in society as it did fifty years ago. Intersectionality issues consist of discrimination by gender, race, age, religion, class, and even

According to our Prezi Presentation by Lisa Anderson on "Intersectionality", intersectionality was defined as, "How systems of inequality mutually constitute and reinforce each other"(2015). However, I would define intersectionality as a mutually linked constitution of communal classifications equal to class, race, gender with regards and applicability to a specified group and/or individual which produces both an extension and interconnected structure of bigotry, favoritism, hatred, inequality, prejudice, and/or a detriment as a whole. Intersectionality plays a critical role in our society due to its power within the myriad of the social groups and social locations (Anderson, 2015). Since, we, as people have the tendency to belong to more than one social group, intersectionality has the propensity of morphing into an ever larger societal issue due to the functions of power (Anderson, 2015).

Intersectionality refers to the idea of the overlapping social identities that one might have. This article explores the problems that arise when not having intersectional awareness. For example, it describes a situation in which a woman was turned away from a shelter for domestic violence victims due to her inability to speak English. Often times in history and still to this day, social movements advocate for progress in their area of interest while simultaneously stepping on other groups.

Four things I have learned in this course are, Intersectionality & Inequality, homosexuality is not truly legal in America. Also, the health disparities, health equity effects all ethnic groups in America. Also, to recognize and honor the Formation and Legacies of racial and ethnic Minorities; history. The inequality, injustice, oppression, are the last things a person would think, of America due to the “democracy.”

Intersectionality can help us better understand heinous acts against enslaved African American women, poor women of color, and poor white women who severed as experimental subjects and abused in medical science. This topic made me really think about how hormonal birth control pills were heavily tested on Puerto Rico women before they had any idea of the long term or short-term effects. The researchers knew they could get away with it because women were largely ignored in science and women of color even more so. They felt even if this pill harmed these women, they were treating it as if it were an animal study and better for the greater good of society. This is not just because they were women but also because they were poor women of color

Success Essay 4: Oppression and Intersectionality In today society discrimination is everywhere based on race, gender, sexual orientation, and religion. Such cruelty becomes even more complex when internationality includes in it. Internationality 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 or disadvantage. Three examples are given to explain the point.

In all cultures in the world there are a number of aspects which are the same among all. Some exist with varying levels of differentiation but some cannot be missed no matter the different cultures across the geographical and even continental divides. Intersectionality exists in all socio-cultures in the world and its depiction is quite easy to see in any one culture. In its definition intersectionality can be termed as social categorizations which apply to a given group of people or a specific individual which are also interconnected in nature and are regarded as interdependent systems of disadvantage or discrimination upon the individual or the groups of people (Williams, 2014). The social categorizations include race, class and even gender.

Intersectionality is the study of intersections between different disenfranchised groups or groups of minorities. The theory of intersectionality stems from various socially and culturally constructed categorical groups, who are discriminated against based on their race, class, gender or other social inequalities. Historically, these groups have interacted on multiple levels and are simultaneously oppressed, stigmatized, marginalized through many means, such as indentured servitude, mass incarceration, collateral consequences, etc. Additionally, the issues racism and sexism are intertwined on many levels, and cannot be abolished individually. Therefore, in order to eliminate these different types of oppressions, the system (body of government, society) should be made more