WGS101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: One-Drop Rule, White Privilege, Burqa
6 Jan 2018
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A collection of people that have certain traits or characteristics in common but tend not to interact or have a connection beyond [the category]. Terminology changes over time based on different categories (geography) Education should be a practice of freedom or conformity. Institutional power: allows people to enter physically. Coined in 1989 by critical legal race scholar kimberle williams crenshaw. She brought a case to court where black females were not paid up to standard because there was not a category for gender arguments while there was for racial. Three key features (systems of oppression, complex identities and social inequalities) Looking at the inner section of who we are (women of color, lesbian, bisexual, immigrant, poor women, disabled) No one fits in one category, everyone is complex and multiplicity. Provides a theoretical lens (a way of looking at the world) Feminism offers us a lens of how society is organised in a particular way.
