Understanding intersectionality
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Intersectionality refers to the overlapping and interdependent nature of social categories such as race, class, and gender and how they contribute to systems of oppression, discrimination, and disadvantage. Specifically, intersectionality is the study of how an individual's social and political identities combine to create different modes of discrimination and challenges. It recognizes that people face discrimination from multiple sources that are interconnected and cannot be examined separately.
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Understanding intersectionality
- 2. The root of the word intersectionality is intersect—to cross, to meet, to overlap, or to mix.
- 3. An intersection is a place where two or more roads meet, especially when at least one is a major highway; junction.
- 4. Intersectionality regarding a person’s identity is the overlap of an individual’s various social identities.
- 5. Intersectionality is the study of overlapping social identities and related systems of oppression, domination, or discrimination.
- 6. Notion of oppression within society—such as racism, sexism, classism, ableism, homophobi a, transphobia, xenophobia and belief- based bigotry—do not act independently of each other.
- 7. This framework can be used to understand how systemic injustice and social inequality occur on a multidimensional basis.