WMGS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Living Wage, Mexican Americans, Social Inequality

• School: StFX
• Department: Women’s And Gender Studies
• Course: WMGS 101
• Professor: Nancy Forestell

Document Summary

A professor at ucla school of law and columbia law school. A scholar in the field of critical race theory. Has published and consulted widely in the areas of race and gender based discrimination in the law, especially in the workplace. Keep in mind video from last week, the danger of a single story. When viewing someone"s life through an intersectional lens, there is no one- way to reduce his or her life to a single story. There is not just one aspect of their identity. Everyone"s lives are formed by experiences of multiple stories. A way of analyzing relationships between gender, race, class, sexuality, abili- ty, and other socially constructed categories of difference. How those relationships result in social inequality and privilege. The idea existed before that, multiple identities intersect in people"s lives. Crenshaw she was a scholar of gender and race and how they intersected.