The Double-Fold Oppression Of Intersectionality. The American

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.

Nearly every aspect of American history involves white supremacy. Upon the discovery of the Americas, the Europeans believed they entered into a land inhabited by savages (Boyer 20). According to President Jackson, the mistreatment of the Indians was to “kill the Indian, but save the man” (Williams) in order to purify America. They were forced to adapt to the dominate society or be killed. According to Wiethaus, “the Trail of Tears is a story of tragedy far overshadows the longer term economic consequences of Indian land for the United States economy and the disruption of individual lives for those dispossessed of their homes” (29). The Columbian Exchange involved the slavery of Africans which later became an issue during the 1800’s once the colonies formed into states. African-Americans did not receive emancipation until after the civil war. Before then, slavery was at the heart of the Commercial Revolution which set the stage for the modern era of economic growth (Wright 14). During the 1800’s, states became divided upon the issue of being a Slave or Free State. After the Civil War, Johnson approved of the emancipation of slaves (Boyer 497). However, during the Reconstruction, “black codes” were constructed to prevent African-American to be considered worthy citizens. Many Acts were passed to give them equality, but they still received inhuman treatment (Boyer 509-511). It took years of marches, protest, and riots

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.

Nineteenth century America was a nation wracked by hypocrisy. While asserting notions of equality and liberty for all, the young land coveted these values for its white majority. African Americans, held in bondage for economic exploitation, were robbed of the principles of democracy and freedom so championed by the United States. This dissonance in American rhetoric was omnipresent, for slavery was a constant and fundamental aspect of life in both the North and South for decades. This duplicity of American equality was not lost on all whites, and a growing sect of reformers arose to combat the wrongs of African enslavement. These

Throughout American history, minority groups were victims of American governmental policies, and these policies made them vulnerable to barbaric and inhumane treatment at the hands of white Americans. American slavery is a telling example of a government sanctioned institution that victimized and oppressed a race of people by indoctrinating and encouraging enslavement, racism and abuse. This institution is injurious to slaves and slave holders alike because American society, especially in the south, underwent a dehumanization process in order to implement the harsh and inhumane doctrine. In the episodic autobiography Narrative of the

Intersectional oppression does not stop when felons are released from prison. It follows them even after they have served their time. Black people are much less likely to be hired for a job after they are released from, making them more likely to return to crime in order to make money, in fact, many are left with no other choice. Black people and Latinx people are also much more likely to be stopped by the police for “suspicious behavior” than whites, even if a white person had been doing the same thing in the same neighborhood. This makes former prisoners who are people of color much more likely to either become homeless or be arrested once again, trapping them once more in the unjust criminal justice system. Another strike against a former

This was the period of post-slavery, early twentieth century, in southern United States where blacks were still treated by whites inhumanly and cruelly, even after the abolition laws of slavery of 1863. They were still named as ‘color’. Nothing much changed in African-American’s lives, though the laws of abolition of slavery were made, because now the slavery system became a way of life. The system was accepted as destiny. So the whites also got license to take disadvantages and started exploiting them sexually, racially, physically, and economically. During slavery, they were sold in the slave markets to different owners of plantation and were bound to be separated from each other. Thus they lost their nation, their dignity, and were dehumanized and exploited by whites.

The two readings that I found to be most impactful was Ch.5 Race, Homeownship and Wealth and Ch. 27 Stressing out the Poor. I considered these two to be the most impactful simply because it was the most relevant to my life. In terms of intersectionality, In the reading Stressing out the Poor, it said that children with wealthier families were more exposed to literature compared to lower wealth families. This is where the intersection began, although my family is not wealthy by any means, they had always had the focus of exposing me to literature by bringing me to libraries and attempted their best parental practices by motivating me to achieve for success. I now understand that proper parental practices isn’t determined by the class or status

In the 1880s, Jim Crow legalized segregation between Blacks and Whites as well as prevented Blacks from obtaining social status. These acts allow Elites to express white superiority through “editorials, speeches, and sermons” (Buck, 99). Elites tried to persuade all Whites that they are in a category that outclasses other races. To take it further, Whites used the Jim Crow to lynch a multitude of Blacks. Jim Crow segregation made skilled, industrial labor available for Whites, leaving agricultural labor for other races. “Blacks were driven out of neighborhoods, jobs, farm ownership and sharecropping positions…” (Buck, 103).

In my paper I will discuss the correlation between the terms assimilation/assimilationist, intersectionality, and oppression. The videos and readings of unit five I believe each share in some aspects a strong correlation with the terms mentioned above. Moreover, the videos and readings each highlighted the aspects of queer politics. I will highlight the racism and the different levels of disparities queer people of color face within the queer community.

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.”

In the South African Americans were commonly victims of lynching in the 19th and 20th century in America. They were commonly accused of violent crimes and beaten, tortured, murdered, and often burned alive. In the years following World War l, millions of southern blacks and returning black soldiers flocked to the nation’s Northern cities for better jobs and to escape the torture of the South. Many whites Americans, fearful of competition for scarce jobs and housing, responded by attacking black citizens in a spate of urban race riots. In urban African- Americans enclaves. The 1920s were marked by the thriving of cultural expressions and a proliferation of black self-help organizations that accompanied the era of the “New Negro.” Many African-

Kimberlé Crenshaw is an esteemed civil rights advocate and law professor. Crenshaw introduced the concept of “intersectionality” to the acclaimed feminist theory close to 30 years ago in a paper written for the University of Chicago Legal Forum, describing the “intersectional experience” as something “greater than the sum of racism and sexism. (Crenshaw)” She wrote in terms of intersectional feminism, which examines the overlapping systems of oppression and discrimination that women face, based not just on gender but on ethnicity, sexuality, economic background and a number of other axes. She speaks on it in a sense that the term intersectionality provides us with a way to see issue that arise from discrimination or disempowerment often being more complicated for people who are subjected to multiple forms of exclusion because of the protected clauses they may possess. Crenshaw speaks on the “urgency of intersectionality” in her Ted talk. This as well as her spreading awareness for the #SayHerName campaign drives a tie between the necessity for intersectionality advocaism and the the occurrences of neglect and violence present in societal happenings today. The question that stands in the forefront of her work is how can we effectively apply an intersectional methodology to analysis of violence and other acts against people who are often being neglected of any sort of recognition in social issues today? Intersectionality is one of the better known concepts within the

Do you ever think about the women who work hard each day yet get paid less? What about women of color who experience racism along with sexism? Do you think feminism is here to help both sexes gain equality? Well, I can tell you, feminism is defined as, “The belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities.” So now you are probably thinking, “Okay well that sounds easy.” But really, feminism has so much structure to it. You need to understand the concept of intersectional feminism, equal pay, and women’s body rights.

The most critical social problem of the 21st century is Capitalism. Capitalism today is what use to be the color line as defined in the early 1900s by W. E. B Du Bois as: the question of the relation of the advanced races of men who happened to be white to the great majority of the undeveloped or half-developed nations of mankind who happen to be yellow, brown or black (Karenga). As Du Bois researched the color line, Capitalism in America is a systemic system of oppression transcended through time and space. In the 20th century, systems of systemic oppression were overt and known methods of suppression, alienation and repression, while today they are more covert in both practice and those who oppress.