AFAM 2000H Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Eth, Heterosexism, Intersectionality

• School: University of Georgia
• Department: African American Studies
• Course: AFAM 2000H
• Professor: Gardner

Document Summary

A faithful, obedient domestic servant; represents formative yardstick used to evaluate all black women"s. The black mother figure in black homes; bad black mother; spending too much time away from home, cannot properly supervise children and are contributing factor to children"s school failure - overly aggressive. African americans can be racially stereotyped as being lazy by blaming black welfare mothers for failing to pass on the work ethic. Welfare mother has no male authority figure to assist her. typically portrayed as an unwed mother. How these intersecting forms of domination are actually organized to oppress women of color. Actual experience or organized both terms used by collins to examine how oppression affects black women. An approach that captures how everyone has multiple identity memberships and that these crisscross and create very different realities for people with varying combinations and statuses. How we read the map or how they look at oppression.