CHICANO 10A Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Audre Lorde, Critical Inquiry, Intersectionality

• School: UCLA
• Department: Chicana and Chicano Studies
• Course: CHICANO 10A
• Professor: J O H N S O N

Document Summary

Kimberle williams crenshaw is the author of this theory. A way to understand related system of oppression, a way of seeing power as multi-dimensional, a matrix. A critique of the usual way of seeing power which was often perceived as unitary and one dimensional. Reflects the intersection of multiple forms of discrimination. There is no such thing as single issue struggle because we do not live single issue lives audre lorde. Emerges in response to the shortcoming of the women"s movement. Black female workers-single focus lenses on social inequality don"t address complex social problems. People begin to use this as a tool of critical inquiry to transform power relationships. Intersectionality in either case is never fixed. An intersectional theory emerging from the experiences of women of color whose multiple communities experience complex set of reproductive oppressions. The impacts of race, class, gender, and sexual identity oppressions are not additive but integrative.