SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Critical Race Theory, Intersectionality, Social Inequality
19 Dec 2020
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Development of critical theories of race and racism. These theories started to develop in the 1990"s. As these theories developed they established commonalities with critical race theory, but also they were a number of differences between them. While theorizing race and racism, both approaches seek to advance social justice and reduce or eliminate social inequality. concept of intersectionality. Critical race theory and critical theories of race and racism both draw upon the. Intersectionality has been used in third wave feminism to address difference among women, but the concept has also been used in contemporary theories addressing race and the experience of minorities. The idea is that minorities exist at the intersection of identities that shape their experiences with oppression. They are going to experience multiple identities, about how they are going to experience oppression. Example: some who is black, female and from the working class have three intensities which intersect.
