intersectionality and not just race. The founders of the movement are queer Black females who recognize how racism, sexism, homophobia, and other systematic discrimination prevents America from living up to its potential. Many readers may not have known about the feminist grounding of #BlackLivesMatter philosophy, and so will learn a lot about the way the movement intends to create meaningful changes in the society. It would be helpful if Garza had mentioned specific legal or legislative action being taken to advance the cause, but in general the article does a… Continue Reading...
action to help people like Joe. Joe's case exhibits gaps in service delivery related to intersectionality and social class status. Guiding principles… Continue Reading...
intersectionality, showing how feminism and abolitionism converged in the nineteenth century, evident in multiple literary genres but particularly in autobiography. In this chapter, Conway claims, “women have come up with life histories which seem complementary to those of men,” but fails to expound on the claim and causing it therefore to lie flat (43). On the other hand, Conway does raise important questions related to identity construction: one of the core themes of When Memory Speaks. In spite of the weaknesses in Conway’s approach to the study of autobiography, the… Continue Reading...
one. Elliot’s book even raises the further question of intersectionality in Deaf culture to show how power and privilege are meted out. In other words, phonocentrism is another form of ethnocentrism.
One of the features of a phonocentric society is hearization. Hearization is the process of privileging one language over another, just as English is privileged over other languages. Instead of learning sign language(s), the phonocentric person expects the Deaf individual to conform to their system of coding and encoding. The process proves detrimental to psychological and social skills development, which is one of the reasons Elliot gravitated towards… Continue Reading...
that Hayden conveyed the intricacies of intersectionality: particularly between race, class, and gender. Imagery is central to Hayden’s delivery and to the conveyance of the main themes of “Those Winter Sundays.”
The title of the poem immediately envelops the reader in the narrator’s landscape: the cold, brutal “blueback cold” of the American Midwest (Hayden line 2). Hayden was himself from the Detroit area, and given the poem’s reference to the “cracked hands” that result from manual labor, it is likely the poem is semi-autobiographical (Hayden line 3). The narrator’s household is a poor one, bereft of… Continue Reading...
exactly what those flags and anthems represent in the first place. Second, I want to broach the subject of race and intersectionality to show that the attitudes towards Kaepernick reveal cleavages in American society. Kaepernicks actions demonstrate the need for meaningful dialogue plus original, creative solutions to the problem. One solution I propose is an extensive public relations campaign related to race and racism in America, targeting young people in particular. The anti-smoking campaign has been tremendously helpful in reducing the prevalence of smoking, and in the same way I believe that effective media and public relations can reduce the antagonism shown towards those like Kaepernick and movements like #Blacklivesmatter that… Continue Reading...
class, and gender. Critical race theory and intersectionality dominate the discourse in higher education, which is fine, but white guilt only perpetuates the belief that institutions of higher learning--and the entire process of academic inquiry--are inherently anti-colonial or simply apolitical. The myth that higher education bears no stamp of colonialism now clouds generations of subtle tyranny: the ways that academia has in… Continue Reading...
intersectionality like race or social class, as she is white and from a privileged background as is the father of her child, Pauli Bleeker (Michael Cera). By placing the female body and the female choice related to sexuality and childbirth at the center of the film, Reitman does create a feminist discourse. As Cohan and Hark points out, in film "traditionally the male body has been viewed as the norm; the female body a deviation,"… Continue Reading...
