SOC 225 Chapter Notes - Chapter week 11 pt 1/2: Patricia Hill Collins, White Privilege, Heterosexism
Collins, Patricia Hill. 2016. “Toward a New Vision: Race, Class, and Gender as Categories of Analysis and
Connection.” Pp. 539-549 in Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Social Class: Dimensions of Inequality and Identity
Toward a New Vision: Race, Class, and Gender as Categories of
Analysis and Connection
● While many of us have little difficulty assessing our own
victimization within some major system of oppression, whether it
be by race, social class, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity, age
or gender, we typically fail to see how our thoughts and actions
uphold someone else’s subordination
● Race, class, and gender are interlocking categories of analysis
that together cultivate profound differences in our personal
biographies
○ We must conceptualize these categories to transcend the
barriers created by our experiences with race, class and
gender oppression in order to build the types of coalitions
essential for social change
○ Shift out discourse away from additive analyses of
oppression
■ Rethink dichotomies
■ See how these dichotomies play out in society
● Types of oppression
○ Institutional dimension of oppression
■ Heterosexism assumed
○ The symbolic dimension of oppression
■ Widespread, soceitally sanctioned ideologies used
to justify relations of domination and
subordination comprise the symbolic dimension of
oppression
○ The individual dimension of oppression
■ We all live within institutions that reproduce race,
class and gender oppression. Even if we never
have any contact with members of other categories,
we all encounter images of these groups and are
exposed to symbolic meaning attached to those
images
}e.g., white feminism pointing to
oppression of women but neglect to
recognize their white privilege
} see the connections between these
categories of analysis and the personal
issues in our everyday lives
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Toward a new vision: race, class, and gender as categories of analysis and. 539-549 in race, gender, sexuality, and social class: dimensions of inequality and identity. Toward a new vision: race, class, and gender as categories of. Race, class, and gender are interlocking categories of analysis that together cultivate profound differences in our personal biographies. We must conceptualize these categories to transcend the barriers created by our experiences with race, class and gender oppression in order to build the types of coalitions essential for social change. Shift out discourse away from additive analyses of oppression. See how these dichotomies play out in society. }e. g. , white feminism pointing to oppression of women but neglect to recognize their white privilege. } see the connections between these categories of analysis and the personal issues in our everyday lives. Widespread, soceitally sanctioned ideologies used to justify relations of domination and subordination comprise the symbolic dimension of oppression.
