Summary: The Urgency Of Intersectionality

Beyoncé Knowles’s Lemonade video album brings the words of Beyoncé into a visual media and shows the viewer a deeper meaning behind the album. After this video came out many articles came forward analyzing Lemonade. One article, in particular, that was intriguing is Bell Hooks “Moving Beyond Pain.” Hooks starts her article saying that the Lemonade video was created as a money-making, business strategy, but as the text continues the reader can conclude that “Moving Beyond Pain” is actually about African American women, and women in general, standing up for themselves.

Intersectionality is a framework that must be applied to all social justice work, a frame that recognizes the multiple aspects of identity that enrich our lives and experiences. This framework synthesizes and complicates oppressions and marginalization’s. In the article, “Why Intersectionality Can’t Wait” Kimberle Crenshaw talks about how the purpose of intersectionality has been lost. Intersectional somehow creates an environment of bullying and privilege checking. This society cannot afford to have movements that are not intersectional because all races need to be embraced and have equality.

For the purpose of this thesis, the term, intersectioanlity will be discussed in this subchapter. Intersectionality, a feminist sociological theory, is a term coined by a famous researcher Kimberlé Crenshaw in her essay entitled Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics (1989). The notion is connected with different forms of oppressions experienced simultaneously by African American women. In her essay, Crenshaw compares discrimination to traffic. She states that women can be victims of discrimination and its consequences that may come from many directions, which she called in her research as an intersection of gender,

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.

There’s a scene at the beginning of the movie when the women were approach by a police officer. Being approached by the police officer terrified the women and made them feel as if they needed to be on their “best behavior” because of the brutality and harassment African Americans have received from the police force. During the civil rights movement blacks were beaten, water hosed, and attacked by dogs for standing up for what they believed in and no legitimate reason. Today that is still a problem in society. The police brutality and harassment worsen over the years compared to the civil rights movement era. In

If people would open their eyes and realize that we are the issue, by the labels put on everyone. It is not hard to see how each and every group of people, rather it be race or gender is being discriminated. This documentary will be for those who are still confused of the idea of equality and basic respect among millions. This documentary will clarify so many different aspects of life, and how people are treated poorly for no reason. This will focus on Women, LGBT, and Black lives matter specifically. The conclusion of the civil rights movement in today's world was not hard to reach, considering black lives matter and multiple other issues were just viral. There are multiple statistics based on African Americans get higher prison time or convictions. While the Civil rights movement was put in place to help African-Americans get equal rights, how come the black lives matter had to come back into play. The main focus would definitely be black lives matter, because there are so many discrepancies on social media, news outlets, and Television based around those controversial issues. As for evidence to support the documentary, there are multiple statistics and court cases to support the idea of

In the 1950’s and 1960’s, African Americans faced discrimination against whites. Oppression is surrounding the nation, segregation was in schools, diners, buses, etc. the documentary follows the journey to a prize, though the actual prize isn’t limited to equality, but to the aspects of equality itself. Mentally, the prize is respect, dignity,

The Blacklist, a feature documentary on HBO, delineates a group of phenomenal African-American celebrities, luminaries, and personalities that gave insight into their own personal struggles and accomplishments as black people. They also talked about their beliefs and desires as well as the people and encounters that influenced and fascinated them. I watched the video two times over in order to grasp the powerful and insightful concepts that the interviewees spoke on. It showed me that as people of color we all go through strikingly similar experiences and have similar desires, regardless of our popularity.

At the surface, Beyoncé’s new video might seem like an attack on police, due to the sinking of the police car and seemingly anti-police imagery. I believe, however, that in her video she is instead advocating black pride while sending a self-empowering message. Following a surprise release on Saturday February 6th 2016, Beyoncé shocked the world with her edgy and powerful music video made available for free download on Tidal. (Natalie, 2016) She then performed her new song during her guest performance at the Super Bowl Halftime Show. The video contained many elements such as the #blacklivesmatter movement, Martin Luther King reference, Katrina devastation of New Orleans, black empowerment, police brutality, unity, and the empowerment of women.

The viewer follows the story of a young African American male who is seen as “normal” through societies eyes, but as the video progresses the real story and challenges faced are shown. Gender stereotypes and expectations are shoved in his face at a young age by media, his parents and his friends. He tries to conform to societal expectations by giving the girl

This is also showed at 2:15 of the video speech. By using the past, present, and future to show that it has taken very long for colored people to be, are still not free, and will, hopefully, one day be free makes a large impact on the viewers/readers.

There were several key message I took from this film. I think the most glaring was the absolute lack of care and fairness that these women received from everyone involved in their cases. They were, for all intents and purposes, treated like their lives didn’t matter nearly as much as the men with whom they had shared their bed. When the one man beat that poor woman to within an inch of her death, and he walked free, that said so much about how society values women as a whole.

These women often discussed about everything related to the black woman including hiring black women in their companies. Black women look out for one another. They also shared the experiences and challenges as a black woman in the business world and how they deal with it on a daily basis.

There are many interpretations of intersectionality, but without a doubt, the critical theory of intersectionality is based on the understanding that oppressive institutions within society take different forms for specific cultural and social positions of individuals and groups. Among the concerns in the article, Joan Simalchik and Hunter College Women’s and Gender Studies Collective discuss the ways in which intersectionality provides a better understanding of how relations of power and privilege and the intersection of gender and race influence women’s everyday lives.

This video relates to several chapters in our sociology book, the main chapter being chapter ten, race and ethnicity. This movie focused on the struggle in our country with discrimination of those