Intersectionality

Question 1

What are the core ideas of intersectional frameworks?

Answer 1

• Social inequality
• Relationality
• Power
• Social context
• Complexity
• Social justice

Question 2

What occurred in 1851?

Answer 2

Sojourner Truth held a Women’s Convention speech in Ohio and how black women do not experience the same chivalry white women do (white women worried she would divert attention from suffrage to slavery)

Question 3

What occurred in 1977?

Answer 3

The Combahee River Collective Statement

Question 4

What was My Brother’s Keeper

Answer 4

Obama made an initiative to help and empower young black boys but did not help black or brown girls- 200 black men signed a petition to include girls and women

Question 5

Definition of Intersectionality

Answer 5

The theory that the overlap of various social identities, as race, gender, sexuality, and class, contributes to the specific type of systemic oppression and discrimination experienced by an individual

Question 6

No hierarchy of oppression

Answer 6

Oppressed just as much for being lesbian than being black

Question 7

Who is more likely to attend poorer schools?

Answer 7

African-Americans and Latinos and then white people leave the school which negatively effects funding- curriculum should focus on intersectionality