CHI 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Rosa-Linda Fregoso, Hispanic And Latino Americans, Femicide
2 May 2018
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4/17/18 – INTERSECTIONAL IDENTITIES
Defining Intersectionality
• The interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender as they
apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent
systems of discrimination or disadvantage (Crenshaw, 1989, 1995, P Hills Collins, 2000).
• Avoids homogenizing POC as within group diversity occurs due to color, class, ethnicity, gender,
sexuality, and ability (among other variables).
Why is an intersectional understanding important?
• Black feminist legal scholar Beverly Crenshaw, among others, highlighted the inadequacies in
the legal system of considering Black women and other WOC solely on the basis of race, without
aalzig other fors of suordiatio.
• Patriia Collis uilt o Cresha’s ork ad proposed that itersetioalit is a aalsis
claiming that systems of race, social class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, nation and age form
mutually constructing features of social organization, which shape Black oe’s eperiee,
ad i tur, are shaped Blak oe Collis, 2000, 229).
Controlling Images as Tools for Oppression
• Collins argues that the media creates controlling images that help perpetuate oppression for
Blacks and other POC.
• These controlling images were created during colonization and slavery to dehumanize and
justify slavery, conquest, multiple forms of oppression that have become institutionalized.
• Controlling images are gender specific.
• These are more serious and pervasive than stereotypes.
o Cotrollig iage of lak oe as ith ad lak ales as riials.
o Bad hombres, burros (beasts of burden)
o Anchor babies
Chicanx Feminist Scholars
• Expand theories of intersectionality to understand the positionality of Latinx men and women
and the challenges for healthy identity development.
• Rosa Linda Fregoso questions the application of white feminist generalizations to women
worldwide, as they ignore the global context of WOC.
o For example, Fregoso interrogates why darker skinned, working class women of Mexico
were (and continue to be) more likely the victims of feminicide than more affluent
lighter skin Mexican women.
Application of Intersectionality Theory
• To better understand Chicano identity development and thereby challenge the controlling
images and stereotypes that affect Latinx males.
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Document Summary
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