DST 500 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–1968), Maria W. Stewart, Intersectionality
12 Apr 2018
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Intersectionality can be traced back to the 1830s when african-american writer maria stewart pointed to the combined effects of racial and gender based oppression (which is now called intersectionality). The idea of gender being incorporated into ethnic studies and migration studies was first introduced in the early 1980s. Gender has become increasingly acknowledged as a central structuring feature of migration processes. Intersectionality takes into account different power relations which shape gendered experiences and migratory processes. It entails the multiple, intersecting sources of subordination and oppression and is based on the premise that the impact of a particular source of subordination may vary, depending on its combination with other potential sources of subordination. Intersectionality allows for the examination of lived experiences at the micro, meso, and macro level. It is used in a variety of disciplines as it takes into consideration the intersection of social inequality.
