User:Snazzysugarplum/Violence and intersectionality (2)
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IntersectionalityTheory is the examination of the interconnection of race, class, and gender during instances of discrimination and/or bias. Kimberlé Crenshaw, a feminist scholar, is widely known for developing the theory of intersectionality in her 1989 essay "Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics[1].Crenshaw's analogy of intersectionality to the flow of traffic explains, "Discrimination, like traffic through an intersection, may flow in one direction, and it may flow in another. If an accident happens in an intersection, it can be caused by cars traveling from any number of directions and, sometimes, from all of them. Similarly, if a Black woman is harmed because she is in the "intersection", her injury could result from sex discrimination or race discrimination."[2]
Black women have been victims of violence and abuse since their African decedents first arrived on the shores of North America in 1619, as kidnapped human chattel, in the Transatlantic slave trade. The intersection of gender among enslaved Black women was an imperative factor of the different treatment they experienced compared to enslaved Black males[3]. In the 1960s, during the beginning of second-wave feminism finally addressed the voice of Black women and women of color in contrast to the first wave, where it initially focused on the struggles of white middle class women.