SOC379H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Intersectionality, Criminal Stereotype Of African Americans, Meritocracy
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Supplementary lecture material - #blacklivesmatter in a post-racial state. Kimberl crenshaw (1993) coined this term to address the ways that black women had and have been excluded from legal scholarship and feminist scholarship. It is used as a theoretical framework or methodological tool to examine how multiple intersecting identities compound and complicate advantage and disadvantage. For eg, beyonce"s racialized and gendered identity operate as a disadvantage, but her class status, light skin, and thin body privilege her in within our society. Scholar hillary potter (2013) uses crenshaw"s framework to address the study of crime. Potter advocates for a framework that examines how intersections of oppression (such as racial identity, class status, sexual orientation, gender etc) affect victitmization, law enforcement, policy, incarceration, victimization, policing etc. Using intersectional criminology academics and intellectuals can understand the ways that socially constructed identities affect crime.
