Set 3: Central Ideas (Advanced)

PASSAGE

The following text describes Intersectionality. Coined by legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw, intersectionality is a framework for understanding how various social and political identities (such as race, class, gender, and sexuality) combine to create unique modes of discrimination and privilege. It argues that systems of oppression are interconnected and cannot be examined in isolation. For example, the experience of a black woman cannot be understood merely by adding the experience of 'blackness' to 'womanhood'; rather, the intersection creates a distinct experience of prejudice that differs from black men or white women.