SOC210H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Serena Williams, Interlocking, White Supremacy
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If class prvidgel then would have other resources and wouldn"t have need to seek shelter at battered women shelter. If white, would have had more class privige and would not have faced racial discrimination in employment, so they would have had more resources: racism, classism and sexism cannot be separate. Matrix of domination: patricia hill collin, brings together a number of concepts, positionality, white privilege, discourse (orientalism, colonialism, black/white binary, fixed, discrete categories. But what is problematic with having additive models of inequality: additive models are about either/or. Examples: master of none, shows we as society, we think things in an additive way, you black, you"re a woman, and you"re gay now. Intersectional analysis in practice: can we eradicate racism without eradicating capitalism, no, but not that simple. Is racism an important component of capitalism: yes. Japaense, not only wealthier than other racisl groups, they make 3. 7% more than their white counterparts.
