Crenshaw's Theory Of Intersectionality
Yes, the level of disapproval I anticipate would depend on which racial group is considered. My father doesn’t mind if we are friends with black or Hispanic people, but he and I have always had arguments when I was growing up about interracial relationships and marriages. He simply doesn’t agree, although he is more open-minded to it now than he ever has been. My mother is pretty much an open-minded person and is nonjudgmental against any race, so I think she wouldn’t judge my choice of friends etc. My grandparents just plan out disagree with dating ANY OTHER RACE at all. Especially Asian people, they were part of/working the Vietnam War so they really have bias against anyone that is Asian or looks like it. They also grew up during the times of slavery and all
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For Marx, issues related to race and ethnicity are secondary to class struggle (Boundless, 2016) It’s my belief that my parents and grandparent’s generations believed that people of different races were from a lower social class, therefore shouldn’t be treated as equal. Intersectionality is a feminist sociological theory first highlighted by leading critical theorist thinker Kimberlé Crenshaw (1989). The theory proposes that different biological, social, and cultural factors, such as gender, race, and class, do not operate in isolation of one another. Rather, they are inter-related, forming a system of oppression that consists of different forms of discrimination (Boundless, 2016). I believe that black men were looked at during both of their generations as someone who lusted after a white woman because she was purer and beautiful unlike a black woman which was used for work and abused commonly by the white man. I know that my father’s generation didn’t quite see the different races as week and unequal as my grandparents did, but again their thoughts and feelings were passed
For Marx, issues related to race and ethnicity are secondary to class struggle (Boundless, 2016) It’s my belief that my parents and grandparent’s generations believed that people of different races were from a lower social class, therefore shouldn’t be treated as equal. Intersectionality is a feminist sociological theory first highlighted by leading critical theorist thinker Kimberlé Crenshaw (1989). The theory proposes that different biological, social, and cultural factors, such as gender, race, and class, do not operate in isolation of one another. Rather, they are inter-related, forming a system of oppression that consists of different forms of discrimination (Boundless, 2016). I believe that black men were looked at during both of their generations as someone who lusted after a white woman because she was purer and beautiful unlike a black woman which was used for work and abused commonly by the white man. I know that my father’s generation didn’t quite see the different races as week and unequal as my grandparents did, but again their thoughts and feelings were passed