Oct 2 Flashcards
intersectionality from video
when multiple minoritized identities are present within one person
ie. gender, sexuality, race, body size
ie. Call Me By Your Name isn’t intersectional (white gay men) but Moonlight is
intersectionality defined
impact of living with multiple marginalized statuses
different forms of social oppression are NOT ADDITIVE
they intersect and are unique
categories that pertain to intersectionality
ability
mental health
gender expression
appearance
fertility
race
language
political affiliation
occupation
class
marital status
education
ehtnicity
nationality
sexual orientation
culture
personality
physical health
age
hobbies
general theory linking intersectional experiences to health
INTERSECTIONAL IDENTITIES (ie. indigenous, female & disabled)
leads to
HEALTH OUTCOMES
mediated by
DISCRIMINATION EXPERIENCES
what is the primary explanatory mechanism between health outcomes incurred by people with intersectional identities?
discrimination experiences
3 different ways of thinking about intersectional experiences
- interaction approach
- qualitative work
- within-group quantitative work
interaction approach
ie. moderation
quantitative approach
multiplying things together and seeing how the results for diff groups are diff
interested in all sorts of factors
race
racegenderdiscrimination
race*gender
gender
discrimination
and how all of these contribute to outcomes
limitations of the interaction approach
- when we start multiplying diff variable tgt it gets harder to get statistical power to identify EFFECTS
- sample size for interactions - need lots of people at EACH INTERSECTION in order to correctly predict
- don’t experiences look different and mean different things depending on one’s intersectional group identities?
- general items may not capture this
- diff groups are subject to diff stereotypes
qualitative work approach
getting people’s experiences in their own words - more rich, nuanced and detailed info than from self-report
ie. individual interviews, focus group interviews, analysis of forums/blogs/social media posts
between or within-group
often within-group
hearing about experiences from the source
more nuance than checking boxes
MEANING MAKING BEHIND EXPERIENCES
qualitative work approach allows for ______ _______ behind experiences
meaning making
ie. how getting followed around in stores MAKES YOU FEEL, what you THINK ABOUT IT, how you MAKE SENSE OF IT and DEAL WITH IT
qualitative work limitations
- generalizability
- isn’t goal of this work to generalize to large populations
- more of a deep dive into specific experiences of specific group - labour intensive
- structural issues
- less respected than qualitative work
- historically is less privileged than hard numbers and big numbers of people
within-group quantitative work
back to numbers, but deep diving into experience of group with a SPECIFIC INTERSECTION OF MARGINALIZED IDENTITIES
makes super unique measures, perfect for who we’re looking
more generalizable because it’s quantitative
targeted measures assessing experiences unique to intersectional identity groups under investigation
has the ADVANTAGES of qual (deeper dive) and quant (generalizability to group under study)
not as deep as qual - tells you about factors influencing disparities, but doesn’t highlight disparity itself since there’s no group comparison
within-group quantitative work doesn’t highlight disparity itself since…
there’s no group comparison
just looks at a single group
2 examples of gender x race intersectionality
Kerum et al - GENDERED RACIAL MICRO AGGRESSIONS SCALE FOR ASIAN AMERICAN WOMEN
Lewis & Neville - GENDERED RACIAL MICRO AGGRESSION SCALE FOR BLACK WOMEN
both of these are within-group quantitative
example of within group quantitative method: Gendered Racial Microaggressions Scale for Asian American Women
gender x race intersectionality
ASCRIBED SUBMISSIVENESS
- “others expect me to be submissive”
- “others have been surprised when I disagree with them”
ASIAN FETISHISM
- “others express sexual interest in me because of my Asian appearance”
MEDIA INVALIDATION
- “I see non-Asian women being casted to play female Asian characters”
ASSUMPTION OF UNIVERSAL APPEARANCE
- “others have talked about AAW as if they all have the same facial features”
