GSFS 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Essentialism, Lorde, Sexualization

• School: McGill University
• Department: Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies
• Course: GSFS 250
• Professor: Marc Ducusin

Document Summary

Intersectionality: the creative function of difference: kara walker"s sugar sphinx , giant statue made of sugar and exhibited in an abandoned. Brooklyn sugar factory in june 2014: directly references the exploitation of black labour in the. Lesbian and feminist statement, but also anti- black. Because identity politics: frequently conflates or ignores intragroup differences, violence experienced by women is shaped by other dimensions of their identities, such as race and class . Ignoring differences within groups amplifies tensions among groups: implies that: Different kinds of privilege often work in concert; people can be privileged in multiple ways; someone privileged in one context can be disadvantaged in another: systemic definition of racism. Bonilla silva argued that we need to move away from racism as an individual psychological flaw. To combat the oppressive effects of racism, we need to adopt a structural theory of racism based on the notion of racialized social systems . The systemic concept of racism refutes notions of.