{"id":161,"date":"2018-01-28T16:38:44","date_gmt":"2018-01-28T21:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/?p=161"},"modified":"2018-01-28T16:38:44","modified_gmt":"2018-01-28T21:38:44","slug":"intersectionality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/2018\/01\/28\/intersectionality\/","title":{"rendered":"Intersectionality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In this Ted Talk, Kimberl\u00e9 Crenshaw explores the topic of intersectionality. According to Crenshaw, \u201cintersectionality\u201d is the overlapping of race, sex, gender, class, ethnicity, and politics that result in several levels of social injustice. Crenshaw argued that \u201cin the same way\u00a0that intersectionality\u00a0raised our awareness to the way that black women live their lives,\u00a0it also exposes the tragic circumstances\u00a0under which African-American women die\u201d. Crenshaw comments on the dynamic nature of intersectionality as it encourages awareness to these social issues, but it reveals the tragic reality of many African-American women and minority groups. Crenshaw\u2019s talk reminded me of Gloria Anzaldua and her poem \u201cWho are my People,\u201d where she discusses her own struggles as a lesbian, woman, Hispanic, American, and catholic. Anzaldua explores how her different \u201cidentities\u201d are often don\u2019t agree with each other and the internal struggle she faces. Despite knowing the term \u201cintersectionality,\u201d Crenshaw\u2019s talk was eye-opening for me since I did not know the names of the women who suffered police violence. Americans don\u2019t recognize the problem of African-American women subjected to police violence because the media doesn\u2019t emphasize women suffering from police brutality. The media, similar to many Americans, don\u2019t acknowledge or understand intersectionality and the pressure it causes to those who identify with several different social, racial, and political groups.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-162 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/files\/2018\/01\/Crewnshaw-post-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/files\/2018\/01\/Crewnshaw-post-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/files\/2018\/01\/Crewnshaw-post.jpg 754w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this Ted Talk, Kimberl\u00e9 Crenshaw explores the topic of intersectionality. According to Crenshaw, \u201cintersectionality\u201d is the overlapping of race,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2675,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[68407],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-representation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2675"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}