Intersectionality Terms Flashcards
Terms and definitions found in literature
Group Centered Intersectionality
emphasizes placing multiply-marginalized groups and their perspectives at the center of the research.
Choo & Ferree 2010
Process Centered Intersectionality
highlights power as relational, seeing the interactions among variables as multiplying oppressions at various points of intersection, and drawing attention to unmarked groups.
Choo & Ferree 2010
System Centered Intersectionality
No primacy is given to any particular identity.
For example, systems such as Welfare, prison, and child protection in BW
Choo & Feree 2010
Intersectional Invisibility
People with intersecting identities do not normally fit the prototype of the two separate identities and so they may be overlooked because they fit neither.
Carbado 2013
Colorblind Intersectionality
Instances in which whiteness helps to produce and is part of a cognizable social category but is invisible or unarticulated as an intersectional subject position.
Carbado 2013
Individual Racism
individual acts of bigotry, such as racial slurs or committing hate crimes.
Golash-Boza 2016
Institutional Racism
racism is a normative, societal ideology that operates within and among the organizations, institutions, and processes of the larger society.
Golash-Boza 2016
Aversive Racism
subtle, often unintentional, form of bias that characterizes many White Americans who possess strong egalitarian values and who believe that they are nonprejudiced
Often used in psychology
Golash-Boza 2016
structural racism
pattern of action in which one or more of the institutions of society has the power to throw on more burdens and give less benefits to the members of one race than another on an on-going basis.
Golash-Boza 2016
Microaggressions
daily, commonplace insults and racial slights that cumulatively affect the psychological well-being of people of color
Golash-Boza 2016
Racialized Social Systems
Societies in which economic, political, social, and ideological levels are partially structured by the placement of actors in racial categories.
Cited in Golash-Boza 2016
Jung’s Definition
Racism
structures of inequality and domination based on race. Structures refers to the reiterative articulation of schemas and resources through practices.
Cited in Golash-Boza 2016
racial ideology
set of principles and ideas that (1) divides people into different racial groups and (2) serves teh interests of one group.
De Jure Racism
racism enforced by law
De Facto Racism
racism enforced by practice only (not by laws).
