Sociology / Unit 7 Soc 1052 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Intersectionality
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The idea
Intersectionality, from Crenshaw and extended by Collins, holds that race, class, and gender cannot be separated when explaining a person's experience.
In practice
The prejudice a poor Asian woman faces is not the sum of separate racial, gender, and class prejudices; it is one combined experience.
Where people slip
Intersectionality describes how disadvantages combine, and it is not a ranking of which disadvantage matters most.
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