Intersectionality Flashcards
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What is intersectionality?
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It is a group of people who share a number of characteristics associated with distinct marginalised groups of people, creating overlapping and interdependent discrimination or disadvantages
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What is intersectional discrimination? And what does it aim to do?
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- it is generally used to refer to situations which result from discrimination on the basis of various grounds which cannot be disentangled from
each other and which by being interconnected create unique forms of disadvantage - different from discrimination that is just based on cumulatively applied grounds
- seeks to reconseptualize the way we understand such intersectional discrimination to present a more accurate vision of the prevailing social inequalities that correspond with people’s lived realities
- aims to transcend intersectional discrimination and bring about social transformation
- ultimately trancend and transform these patterns of group disadvantage
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What is multiplle discrimination? And what are 2 forms of multiple discrimination?
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- it is an umbrella term for all instances of discrimination on several discriminatory grounds
- intersectional discrimination: 2 or more grounds interact in such a way that they are inextricable
- additive or compound discrimination: several grounds of discrimination operating separately, thereby being exposed to unique disadvantages and discrimination
4
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Where does intersectionality emerge from?
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- has its roots in black feminist activism, originally coined by critical race (critical race theory recognizes that rasism is embedded in laws, policies, and institutions that uphold and reproduce racial inequalities) scholar Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw in 1989
- 3rd wave feminism
- initial focus on the overlap of race and gender but applied in a much wider context today
5
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What are 4 key intersecting dimensions of racial discrimination?
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- individual
- institutional
- structural
- historical
6
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Why is the concept of intersetionality important?
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- fills in the protection gaps/people that fall between the framework
- it modifies our understanding of discrimination, that’s why we need it
- a response to a lived reality of some people
7
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What is an obsticle when faced with intersectionality in the UN human rights system?
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- there are different UN treaties, some general and some specific and all operating by themselves
- how the system is built up makes it difficult to tell who deals with an issue if you fall between different treaties?
