MCGS 310Z Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Intersectionality, White Privilege, Reverse Discrimination

• School: Chico State University
• Department: Multicultural and Gender Studies
• Course: MCGS 310Z
• Professor: Susan Frawley

Document Summary

Intersectionality: interconnected nature of social categorizations regarded as intersecting of oppression/discrimination. Race, sex, nationality, ethnicity, abilities, class, gender, age, religion, etc. Privilege: special rights granted to particular person/group of people, certain segments of the populations treatment over others. Power: the ability to do something or act in a paricular way. Heteronormative: set of lifestyle norms that hold people into distinct and complementary genders with natural roles in life. Held together by power cont to operate bc of guilt. To erradicate the oppresion we must challenge the systems that maintan them. Discrimnination agaginst memebrs of a dom or maj group.