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Ericka Davis
Dr. McCormick
WGST 30303
10 February 2019
Ericka, see my comments below and in blue throughout and at the end of your essay.
The Urgency of Intersectionality and From a Native Daughter Synthesis Essay
Intersectionality is a sociological and critical theory about how an individual can face
multiple threats such as oppression, domination and discrimination when their various
biological, social and cultural identities overlap such as gender, race, sex, wealth, age, ability,
sexuality and many other characteristics. Intersectionality maintains that oppressive
institutions such as racism, classism, ageism and countless more “isms”, are interconnected
and do not act separately of one another.
[Good opening explanation.]
The idea of
intersectionality applies to both genders but is traditionally applied to women.
Looking at
both texts
[Go ahead and give the name of the specific texts]
and how they create a deeper
understanding of what experiences of women of color face across boundaries of identity,
location and other areas.
[This last sentence is a fragment.]
What is feminism? Depending on who you ask, you will get different answers. Each
one of these answers will differ depending on whether they are male, female, liberal,
conservative, black, or white. Some questions that need to be answered when trying to
understand more about feminism are: does feminism differ when race overlaps with gender
and what struggles do black women and other women of color must overcome that white
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women do not? When you Google search words like feminism, black feminism, and
intersectionality, a plethora of information is thrown out at you, some negative and some
positive. That is because there are so many different personalities of feminism, but again it is
all dependent on the one who it affects.
According to the Cambridge Dictionary, feminism is
the belief that women should be allowed the same rights, power, and opportunities as men
and be treated in the same way. Black feminism is the battle of African-American women
against the issues of not only gender, but also class and race. The struggle is in the effort to
establish the African-American woman as an independent person, who is not dependent on
any other person except herself.
So, what is intersectionality? Intersectionality is the concept
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