GENDER 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: White Privilege, Male Privilege, Intersectionality
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We believe that sexual politics under patriarchy is as pervasive in black women"s lives as are the politics of class and race. We also often find it difficult to separate race from class and sex oppression because in our lives they are most often experienced simultaneously. crcs. Multiracial feminism is an attempt to go beyond a mere recognition of diversity and difference among women to examine structures of domination, specifically the importance of race in understanding the social construction of gender. zinn and dill. From an analysis of male privilege to an understanding of white privilege. I will review here several types or layers of denial that i see at work protecting and preventing awareness about, entrenched male privilege. Then i will draw a parallels, from my own experience, with the denials that veil the fact of white privilege.
