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Intersectionality: Crenshaw & Rich - Coggle Diagram
Intersectionality: Crenshaw & Rich
What is the problem Crenshaw is laying out? What's at stake?
"the issues and problems that Black women face" and the issue of being pushed aside. "Black women are theoretically erased" (139)
the limits of "single axis-analysis"
imagine a basement (151)
"in other words, in race discrimination cases, discrimination tends to be ievewed in terms of sex- or class-privieged Blacks; in sex discrimination cases, the focus if on race- and class-privieged women" ( 140) -- this model of approaching oppression in segments breaks folks into groups and ranks oppressions/disciminations
from UNDISTRACTED--anti-racist discrimnation under the law has a fraught history of being resistant to but reinscribed within white supremacist traditions
how does "intersectionality" think about the practice and history of law?
how does the educational
system
think
hi, hello, yes, justice isn't happening
What is the framework/methodology Crenshaw proposes to think through this problem?
"bottom-up" approaches (145)--if employees could see collective claims and justice could be awarded, it could lead for more justice/equity
What evidence/examples does Crenshaw use to think through this problem?
DeGraffeneid v General motors: gm didn't hire Black women in until the 1960s, but then lost their jobs based on seniority (141)
"they should not be allow to create a "super-remedy" (141)--you can be discriminated as a woman. Or a person of color. But not both. This is the erasure that women of color can't exists
"sex and race discrimination doctrine are defined respectively by white women's and Black men's experiences" (143)
Moore vs Hughes helicopters: issues of equity and promotion
"the curious logic in
Moore
reveals not only the narrow scope of antidiscrimination doctrine and its fauilure to embrace nitersectionality" [...] "the centrality of white female experiences in the conceptualization of gender discrimnation" (144)
payne vs Travenol (pg 146)
"“Black women could not possibly represent Black men adequately”--men can set the standard for racial discrimination
furthers erasure, creates silences
What solutions does Crenshaw offer us moving forward?
"Intersectionality": "grasp the the importance of Black women's intersectional experiences" ("unique compoundness of their situation") (150
"Consider an analogy to traffic in an intersection, coming and going in all four directions." (149)--we need to see many different
ways
of oppression
What does "intersectionality" feel like/hear liek in pop culture/outside the classroom
braided/intertwined, it's how we go through life, we hear it in classrooms and tools
think Frye's birdcage with "intersecting" oppression