SOC101Y1 Chapter Notes -Affirmative Action, Civil Rights Act Of 1964, Intersectionality
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Perspecitive on intersections of race, ethnicity, gender and other grounds: latinas at the margins. This article proposes an alternative approach to discrimination claims. She uses the intersectional approach as a vehicle and focus on the lived realities of racially or ethnically defined women specifically latinas. An intersectional approach recognizes the unique experience of the individual based on the intersection of all relevant grounds gender, color, ethnicity class, immigrant status & disability. Traditional top-down rigid legal prescriptions are insufficient to solve these complex matters of intersectional oppression. The idea is to create judicial standards that require more proactive anti-discrimination programs and laws. I argue that latinas have unique vulnerabilities and are more likely to experience multiple forms of discrimination because they have multiple identities. This article presents a narrative of the latina experience within the intersectional framework. The concept of intersectionality have been defined as the oppression that arises out of the combination of various forms of discrimination.
