DST 500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Mental Health, Counterhegemony, Eurocentrism

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Disability Studies
• Course: DST 500
• Professor: Danielle Landry

Document Summary

Concept used to describe the ways in which oppressive institutions are interconnected and cannot be examined away from one another. No factors in isolation, but all of them coming together in the context of the social world. Institutions intervening in our lives in different ways. Not only thinking about oppression, but also where we are allowed particular kinds of access. Kimberly crenshaw named intersectionality in the 1989. Talks about someone suing for discrimination the employer hired african americans, only for menial work, only men. The court refused to let emma to put two causes of action together because this would give her an advantage in court over white women and black men. Needing two frameworks of discrimination to explain their experiences. Making double discrimination legally inconsequential framing problem: the frame in which the court used to see emma"s case would not allow them to clearly see her story. Analogy of intersecting roads, in this case gender and race traffic.