PHIL 242 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Identity Politics, Intersectionality
6 Dec 2015
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Kimberle williams crenshaw, mapping the margins terms: identity politics. Background: intersectionality to engage in politics on the basis of identity that one holds founded on a shared experience of injustice identities are often constituted of intersections of different strands. Intrinsically negative frameworks: identity categories are the effects of injustice, there are parts of identity that are not viewed as negative, identity politics tend to ignore differences within groups. Tension among groups aims: extend description and show how they are marginalized in communities that claim to represent them, in context of sexual violence. How they are addressed in social political environment structural intersectionality: intersection of race and gender. Patterns of subordination that intersect women"s experiences immigration status, subordination by men, etc. Experience of the place you live is mediated by institutions.
