WGS200Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Afro, Dragon 2, Bell Hooks
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Intersectionality: race, place, class how they intersect: power, context, agency. Essentialism: reduces people and concepts to an essential trait, stereotype of one particular factor. 1: define context, what is the specific situation, specifies social, cultural, historical situation. Identity and intersectionality: postionality p. 47, where you are from and where you are now b, situated knowledge . P. 51-52: not secret group of powerful, social customs, historical processes. Institutional power d: hard to fight the powers of institutions because it comes with the gravity of history, saying it"s always wrong or correct, that"s how it"s always done normalizing. Issues: self-reflexivity, critical self reflection of your own position in life, postionality, simultaneously experienced i. Identity issues are experienced at the same time at all times (our class, race, etc. : defined by context, one of the identities will hold more, normalized patterns of speech, be careful of how we speak.
