Critical Feminist and Race Theory Flashcards
Haraway
Feminist objectivity and situated knowledges
Feminism has a critical vision that is interpretive and partiall
Collins
Standpoint theory - “…group location in hierarchical power relations produces shared challenges for individuals in those groups,” (201)
the outsider-within
Racism and heterosexim are inextricably linked in the US
- The urban prison, resistance, and narratives of deservingness
- Racism and heterosexism rely on segregation, disciplinary action/laws, and binary ideologies
- The “whitening” of LGBTQ and black churches
Omi and Winant
Neoliberalism
- Political movement based on free market capitalism that was borne out of the feat that marginalized people and their movements would take control of the government and make it socialist
“politics of resentment” and “premised on racial resentment” i.e. anti-welfare
Examples” tax revolt, producerism (hostile toward ‘unproductive’ classes)
Colorblind Politics
- Pretdening racial differences don’t exist, especially in the context of policy making
- Racial formation
- A way of “making up people” – race as a master category - - —Looks at the way race is defined and redefined along political and cultural lines
Crenshaw
Structural intersectionality
- The circumstances under which policies intersect with background structures of inequality to create a compound burden for particularly vulnerable populations
Political intersectionality
- The way individuals that experience intersectionality actively organize to challenge the conditions fo their own lives
Young
Five Faces of Opression
Exploitation – using the people’s labor to produce profits and not paying them appropriately, uses capitalism to further oppress marginalized groups, generates different classes of people
Marginalization – holding a group of individuals in the lowers social standing and on the fringes of society. Society sometimes wont even use these people for labor so they can’t be paid for work. Typically on the basis of race.
Powerlessness – some people have power in society and some do not, creates a dominant and subordinate class
Cultural imperialism - the culture of the ruling class as the central dominant culture, i.e. British colonization of India
Violence – members of groups live in fear, know they may face violence against themselves and their families for no other reason besides race/class/religion/etc
Du Bois
The veil
Double Consciousness
being ‘a problem’
Cho, Crenshaw, McCall
Three examinations of intersectionality – in academia, as a tool of analysis, as applied in social movements and other ‘real world’ circumstances
Intersectionality exists within the ‘very field of race and gender power that it interrogates’
Intersectional framing as “conceiving of categories not as distinct but as always permeated by other categories, fluid and changing, always in the process of creating and being created by the dynamics of power – emphasized what intersectionality does rather than what intersectionality is”
Structural intersectionality is inextricably tied to an analysis of power and political intersectionality is applied structural
Puar
Intersectionality + assemblage theory
- Holds that popular use of intersectionality uses white women as a comparison group thereby reinforcing them as normative
Assemblage theory
- Focused not on the pieces but the relationships between them
- Human body as just another actor
- Identity constantly created through interaction
Disaster Capitalism
“the constellation of government and economic policies and practices that have found ways to make disasters profitable as new sources of capital”
Contours of “chronic disaster capitalism”
- Individual suffering – chronic trauma, displacement, etc
- The workings of disaster capitalism tied to undermining of public infrastructures, privatization
- The ways displacement produces an ‘ongoing way of life’
