What is Intersectionality?

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1. Intersectionality is a theory in sociology that defines multiple threats of discrimination that have a likelihood of occurring when a person’s identity overlaps a number of minority classes in the society for instance gender, race, health, ethnicity among other identity markers (Collins et al., 46).
2. Intersectionality theory dictates that people are often disadvantaged by various oppression sources for example race, and class and the more the minority classes an individual’s identity falls in, the higher the chances of intersectionality occurring. Intersectionality brings to light the fact that these identity markers do not exist independently and the more the markers an individual has, the more the oppressed they become. For example, back adult male worker and white female worker earn $0.74 and $0.78 respectively per one dollar earned by a white male worker. Black women who are faced with more identity markers s are more oppressed as they earn a mere $0.64.
3. From the infographic about CCCOnline, I feel that I am represented in all aspects that have been presented.
4. I would add the category of individuals living with a disability. Many people living with disability face various forms of oppression in their daily lives. Many organizations are reluctant to hire them and even after hiring them, the working conditions are never favorable for persons living with disability.
5. I wouldn’t say that some pieces of my identity are privileged as I fell that everybody deserves an equal chance in whatever they are going for.

I would be comfortable living with myself knowing that my identity helped me secure a good job even if I was underqualified for it.
6. What Kimberle Crenshaw means by saying “if you stand in a path of multiple forms of exclusion, you’re likely to get hit by both” is that individuals who have many identity markers are more likely to be oppressed than those with few. Being a black male person an individual will be oppressed in the society hence being a black female one will be more oppressed.
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Collins, Patricia Hill, and Sirma Bilge. Intersectionality. John Wiley & Sons, 2016.