WMST 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Intersectionality, Viola Davis

• School: George Mason University
• Department: Women and Gender Studies
• Course: WMST 200
• Professor: Rachel Lewis

Document Summary

Term introduced by allison jagger and paula rockenberg. Multiracial feminism: is a separate type of feminism that is more uni ed than white feminism. The only thing that separates women from women of color is opportunity. Mapping the margins: intersectionality, identity, politics, and violence against women of color. The objective presented: exploring the race and gender dimensions of violence against women of color. Unemployment, poverty, discrimination, class oppression, gender, legality circumstances ( deportation) Some domestic violence shelters have turned women away because they can not speak english. Political interests of woc are put in danger by political strategies that suppress and ignore intersectional issues. Tendency within antiracists discourse to regard violence against woc as a manifestation of racism (some people won"t release statistics because it will shed a bad light of moc. Having to go to racist systems for help i. e. police. The interests of colored women are heavily jeopardized by political strategies that attempt to suppress intersectional issues .