HREQ 1800 Lecture 18: Hreq 1800 - Lecture 18 Youth Inequalities Part 2

• School: York University
• Department: Human Rights and Equity Studies
• Course: HREQ 1800
• Professor: Professor L.Visano

Document Summary

The importance of intersectional concepts (race, gender, class, sexuality, age, dis/ability) intersecting/ interlocking oppressions expressed along cultural lines. Hybridized identity comes out of the notion of a third space . Concept of a third space demonstrates how intersecting and learned ideologies and discourses of race, class, age and sexuality are part of one"s identity construction . Bhabba (1994) argues that this space challenges the notion of cultural totalization the. Self" intersects with one"s personal self-reflexive interpretation and understanding of interlocking oppressions. How race", gender, sexuality, and class shape one"s position insider/outsider dilemma from multiple entry points. the everyday lived experience engaging in, and working through multiple oppressions. Emmett till, a 14-year-old chicago native who was violently killed in 1955. Trayvon martin, a 17-year-old african american boy 2012, Crime: a surveillance video showing michael brown committing strong arm robbery at a nearby convenience store. Crime: michael brown did not have his hands up when he shot six times by officer wilson.