Critiques of Media and Scholarship
Crenshaw criticizes this report for suggesting the deterioration of Black families was due to the Black man, failing to account for patriarchal biases.
What is Daniel Moynihan's report?
Crenshaw uses this analogy to describe how Black women’s harm can come from multiple directions, sometimes making it difficult to identify the source.
What is a car accident at a four-way intersection?
This 19th-century Black feminist, mentioned by Crenshaw, emphasized that her entry into spaces represented the entry of the entire Black race.
Who is Anna Julia Cooper?
Crenshaw criticizes this type of antidiscrimination doctrine for failing to combine classes and only addressing harm when it is identified by the discriminator.
What is the single-axis antidiscrimination doctrine?
This concept, critiqued by Crenshaw, involves analyzing discrimination based on only one identity category at a time.
What is the single-axis framework?
This news report, discussed by Crenshaw, claims that Black women’s alleged sexual irresponsibility contributes to family deterioration, blaming welfare policies.
What is Bill Moyer’s "The Vanishing Black Family"?
Crenshaw illustrates how this type of exclusion happens in both feminist and antiracist movements, leading to the marginalization of Black women's experiences.
What is the marginalization of Black women?
According to Crenshaw, this historical figure faced opposition from white feminists who were concerned her focus on slavery would detract from feminism.
Who is Sojourner Truth?
In Crenshaw's analogy, disadvantaged individuals are stacked in this location, with the least disadvantaged reaching the top floor first.
What is a basement?
Crenshaw uses this type of analogy to explain the complexities faced by Black women in the context of intersectionality.
What is a four-way intersection analogy?
This scholar’s work is critiqued by Crenshaw for addressing the economic decline affecting Black men while ignoring Black women workers.
Who is William Julius Wilson?
Crenshaw argues that current antidiscrimination doctrine reflects an uncritical acceptance of this, leading to inadequate protection for multiply disadvantaged groups.
What is the dominant conception of discrimination?
Crenshaw critiques feminist discussions on this issue for focusing on norms that primarily regulate white women's sexuality, ignoring how these norms apply differently to Black women.
What is rape?
Crenshaw argues that the current legal framework often centers discrimination around the experiences of these two groups.
Who are white women and Black men?
According to Crenshaw, this contradiction arises from attempts to fit Black women's experiences into both single-axis frameworks and broader discrimination categories.
What is the contradiction between being treated as the same and being treated as different?