SOC 525 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Patricia Hill Collins, Michael Vick, Golfweek
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Convicted for 21 months for running a dog fighting ring. Challenge: to think about how race, class, and gender are working through the take up of this case. Kelly tilgham, golf news anchor, suspended for saying they should lynch him in the back alley . Golf-week magazine reports on tilgham"s comment caught in a. Noose, tilgham slips up and golf channel can"t wiggle free! . Identities are made up of different categories of analysis. Additive analysis identities are made up of different factors that can be analyzed. We need to begin to see how these factors come together, how they intersect. As a women of color, i cannot separate the two targets of oppression (being female, being african american) Oppression is structured along three main dimensions institutional, Collins does not agree with an additive analysis because it implies a dichotomous process (this or that) Of additive analysis race, plus gender, plus sexuality, plus religion, etc.