Intersectionality

Question 1

what is social stratification?

Answer 1

a system by which a society ranks categories of people in a hierarchy

Question 2

what is intersectionality according to Kimberle Crenshaw?

Answer 2

when groups of people experience serious disadvantages because they are only looked at from the perspective of one single categorical axis

Question 3

what means to be multiply-burdened?

Answer 3

falling into more than one disadvantaged category

Question 4

what is the integration paradox?

Answer 4

when individuals that are most “rooted” experience discrimination most

Question 5

why does intersectionality happen?

Answer 5

relative deprivation- realise they are disadvantaged
making people more aware of political and social discussions about integration, migration, racism
second generation- feel the weight because they are born and bred in and may feel they are citizens of and part of the society

Question 6

origins of intersectionality

Answer 6

o The challenge to second wave feminism from black feminism
o Commonality of gendered experience put into question
o Focus on exclusions
o Focus on feminist complicities
o Focus on multiplicity
o Black lesbian feminist writers
o Critical pedagogy
o Black feminist activist theory
o Vast literature
o Concerned with both the experiential and the structural