WMNST 325 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Combahee River, Intersectionality
Document Summary
Little work analyzes how categories of identity, difference and disadvantage are associated with outcomes. Even less about how social categories rely on one another for meaning. Intersectionality- developed by feminist and critical race theorists to describe analytic approaches that consider the meaning and consequences of multiple categories of social group membership. Framework asks researchers to examine categories of identity, difference, and disadvantage with a new lens. Combahee river collective- group of black feminists wrote one of the first expressions of intersectionality. King showed that major us social movements organized on the basis of race, class and gender failed to consider the intersections of these categories. People expressing multiple traits were not served properly. As intersectionality started to spark, most groups focused on the multiple disadvantaged statuses and highlighted ways that analyses considering categories such as race and gender independently may be limited because individuals experience these statuses simultaneously.
