Understanding Intersectionality
The concept of intersectionality stands for experiencing discrimination based on several features of a victim with overlapping social identities, e.g. an old disabled woman of color, who is therefore doomed to contend with multiple marginalizations.
Consequently, many researchers regard this subject of cross-sectional study as the issue that needs to be examined from various angles. It includes the concepts of racism, sexism, feminism, homophobia, xenophobia, and many other examples of bigotry and bias. To exemplify this, Bell Hooks contemplates on the complexity of nature of woman's status. She refers to its constituent paradigms, namely sex, race, and class, as the means of determination of their "social identity" (Hooks 14262). Another scholar AnaLouise Keating claims that negotiations among similarities and differences represent a radical departure from conventional practices (Keating 14984). She is convinced it is crucial to explore differences and self-exposure "to discover and/or create commonalities"(Keating 14984).
Keating makes a significant conclusion that people should not reject differences which will not disappear just because of the fact of negligence. She claims that it is "a mistaken attempt to demonstrate solidarity"(Keating 14984). Thus, collaborative work needs to prevail over "exclusive, one-cause one-cure thinking" (Cayleff 14087). Supportive of this statement, M. Jacqui Alexander speaks of the importance of tearing down the walls of misunderstanding. He suggests to eradicate divisions and eliminate of hierarchies to promote social justice. A scholar notes it will make people "whole again … throughout the entire journey" (Alexander 14871).
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