Abstract
In addition to race, other personal characteristics also can lead to oppression. Social subsets such as ethnicity, gender class, and ability status also are important in establishing one’s place in society, and ultimately one’s sense of self. The overlapping and entwining of race with all of these social subsets determines the degree of discrimination one experiences in society. This chapter focuses as well on the structural and institutional intersection of discrimination. Racism, the overarching form of oppression, is examined by using Critical Race Theory to understand the interface of societal institutions with intersectionality. An analysis of racism illuminates the intersection of social subsets and there is discussion about how racial oppression is related to issues of power and cultural sway. The intersectionality of various forms of oppression is further explicated by examining the interconnections between cultural subsets and identities and the forces of colonization and immigration.
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In our text, we use “they” or “them” or “their’ rather than the singular pronoun because this is the pronoun convention currently preferred by members of the transgender community
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Tourse, R.W.C., Hamilton-Mason, J., Wewiorski, N.J. (2018). Intersectionality: The Linkage of Racism with Other Forms of Discrimination. In: Systemic Racism in the United States. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72233-7_7
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