FEMST 60 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: White Supremacy, Power (Social And Political), Solitary Confinement
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Class or economic discrimination: poor, working immigrant women at bottom of labor market. State domination & discrimination in legal system: police, court system, and laws control, define & target poor, working class, immigrant communities and woc for engaging in criminal activities. Cultural, racial, and gender discrimination: woc work & live by defying white, middle class female gender roles. Movement: invisibility of violence when asian women are victims of hate crimes based on race, national origin, sexual orientation, religion, or any combo of these. ""protected classes : address everyday forms of resistance of asian women in marginal positions and how violence experienced by asian women results from multiple systems of domination. We too sing america: south asian, arab, muslim, and sikh immigrants shape our. Do you see how much i"m suffering here? p. 1-16: many transgender women in immigration detention; sexually assaulted & routinely harassed especially by male guards- face isolation & anxiety.
