What is intersectionality? Is it a Marxist view of society? Is that a bad thing?
“Crenshaw argued that the court’s narrow view of discrimination was a prime example of the “conceptual limitations of single-issue analyses” regarding how the law considers both racism and sexism. In other words, the law seemed to forget that black women are both black and female, and thus subject to discrimination on the basis of both race, gender, and often, a combination of the two.
For example, DeGraffenreid v. General Motors was a 1976 case in which five black women sued General Motors for a seniority policy that they argued targeted black women exclusively. Basically, the company simply did not hire black women before 1964, meaning that when seniority-based layoffs arrived during an early 1970s recession, all the black women hired after 1964 were subsequently laid off. A policy like that didn’t fall under just gender or just race discrimination. But the court decided that efforts to bind together both racial discrimination and sex discrimination claims — rather than sue on the basis of each separately — would be unworkable.”
Here is Kimberlé Crenshaw discussing her theory of intersectionality.
https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/5/20/18542843/intersectionality-conservatism-law-race-gender-discrimination
https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1052&context=uclf
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/nov/12/kimberle-crenshaw-the-woman-who-revolutionised-feminism-and-landed-at-the-heart-of-the-culture-wars?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR2MxVgvz5rlFtZePL8lOyY2ItNopYQ-JiMLK7UGhwCOF2HaypNDpsisSJ0#Echobox=1605177454
https://www.ted.com/talks/kimberle_crenshaw_the_urgency_of_intersectionality/transcript#t-1113210
https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/3/15/14910900/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-transgender-women-comments-apology
see also https://stuartwiffin.substack.com/p/mcintosh-and-white-privilege
