DST 500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Intersectionality, Audre Lorde, Antonio Gramsci
17 Dec 2015
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Mainly pioneered by black women who felt excluded from conversations around race, class, gender etc. Different social oppressions aren"t better or worse than each other. Additive analysis doesn"t work, people aren"t more oppressed because they have more than one form of social oppression. Several social factors can converge to create a cumulative impact on a person"s social standing. Colonialism as hegemonic rule: the extension of a nation"s sovereignty over territory and people outside of its boundaries, the colonizer"s culture is viewed as superior to the culture of the colonized. Hegemony how the powerful stay on top. Uses system of power to promote the ideology of the dominant powers, and convincing the masses that the powerful"s message is good. Counter-hegemonic allows people to think counter to the ideology. Bcs mass exile of chinese lunatics" aboard the empress of russia feb. 9, Bc immigrants deemed lunatics" were sent back to china. When the economy goes down, places tend to place blame on.
