Intersectionality
This legal scholar coined the term "intersectionality" in 1989
Who is Kimberlé Crenshaw?
Fabienne Snowden is an assistant professor in this department at Medgar Evers College, CUNY.
What is the Department of Social Work?
the terms Black, Black American, and African American refer to
people with
African ancestry who identify or are identified as being Black?
refers to a group of people who are defined
as being different from the elite and other marginalized groups on the basis of per-
ceived physical characteristics (Kinloch, 1974)
race?
Features attractions like Coney Island, Prospect Park, and the Brooklyn Bridge
Brooklyn?
Intersectionality examines how these factors affect a person's access to opportunities and privileges.
What are social identities (such as race, gender, class, sexuality, disability)?
is a dynamic social construct
that has no genetic or biological basis but is used to characterize groups of people
(Omi & Winant, 1994)
What is race?
These terms are used interchangeably to refer to people who were born and raised in the United States and can trace their heritage to those of African ancestry who migrated here from the Caribbean, South America, Africa, and other parts of the African Diaspora (Gomez, 2004) or were forced to migrate to the United States while enslaved (Byrd & Clayton, 1992).
Black, Black American, African American
are conceptualized as people of European ancestry who were born and raised or migrated to the United States who identify or are
identified as White (Hughey, 2012).
Whites and Euro-Americans
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Queens?
Intersectionality was added to this dictionary in 2015.
What is the Merriam-Webster Dictionary?
socially defined and
has no biological basis. Ethnicity refers to a group of people who are defined by
perceived cultural differences such as religion or nationality (Kinloch, 1974). Race
and ethnicity can result in “rigid social differentiation, exploitation, and bitter
conflict” within a racialized society (Kinloch, 1974 p. 53).
What is ethnicity?
refers to the global dispersion of people who were formerly concentrated on the continent of Africa (Emory
University, 2013; Palmer, 1998).
The African Diaspora?
is a term
that is utilized by people from Latin America (or of Latinx American ancestry) to
assert their independence from Spain and acknowledge their indigenous roots as
a means of resistance to oppressive, race-based structures (Garcia, 2012).
refers to all genders and gender nonconforming identities
Latinx
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The Bronx?
Intersectionality is described as an analytical framework for understanding how societies treat people based on these factors.
What are overlapping social identities?
Name two examples of groups often facing oppression in intersectional studies.
What are women of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, or low-income groups? (Any two of these or similar answers would be correct)
refers to communities of individuals and families that are the descendants of presettler and precolonial societies in the United States (United Nations, 2014) and where noted, throughout Africa (Diop,
1987).
Indigenous?
refers to the ethnicity of people who are members and descendants of the
Hispanic Diaspora and people identifying as Black Latinx, Indian Latinx, and/or
White Latinx (Garcia, 2012).
Latinx?
This College campus used to be the home of a state-supported institution for children with intellectual disabilities in the Willowbrook neighborhood of Staten Island in New York City, which operated from 1947 until 1987.
The school was designed for 4,000, but by 1965 it had a population of 6,000. At the time, it was the biggest state-run institution for people with mental disabilities in the United States. Conditions and questionable medical practices and experiments prompted US Senator Robert F. Kennedy to call it a "snake pit".The institution gained national infamy in 1972, when Geraldo Rivera did an exposé on the conditions there.
College of Staten Island (CSI)/Willowbrook State School
This term describes the situation where minority women suffer the full disadvantage of both minority status and being female.
What is double jeopardy?
This concept recognizes that certain individuals have advantages based on their social identities.
What is privilege?
used to collectively refer to Indigenous communities in North America are outdated and historically inaccurate (Indigenous Corporate Training, Inc, 2018).
Native and Native American?
These terms are used interchangeably and to
also refer to people who do not have European ancestry but identify or are iden-
tified as White (Gualtieri, 2009; Morrison & Chung, 2011).
Whites and Euro-Americans?
"My father married a pure Cherokee, My mother's people were ashamed of me... half breed"
Who is Cher?