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Intersectionality/Power
This section is focused on the concepts of Intersectionality & Power, navigable by level of proficiency:
- Beginner: "Demonstrate the vocabulary necessary to engage in diversity and social justice conversations."
- Intermediate: "Identify and articulate one’s own positionality in relation to social systems and structures."
- Advanced: "Apply the multiple relationships between intersectionality and power with an eye towards producing equitable change."
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Intersectionality Resources
From Domains/Dimensions Related to Diversity:
Students will investigate the different dimensions of identity, and be able to understand and apply key DSJ terms/language through diverse perspectives. Students will be able to understand the vocabulary necessary to engage in diversity and social justice conversations in a thoughtful and productive manner. In addition, students will consider how it can be linked in concrete manifestations to diversity, equity and inclusion.
- Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics
Crenshaw, Kimberle (1989), University of Chicago Legal Forum: Vol. 1989, Article 8. - Borderlands: la Frontera
Anzaldúa, Gloria (1987), San Francisco: Aunt Lute - The Complexity of Identity: "Who Am I?"
Tatum, Beverly Daniel (2000), from Readings for Diversity and Social Justice - Don't Cancel Your Class!
from The Brook Center for Empowerment and Wellbeing - LGBTQ Core Vocabulary
from the Safe Zone Project - LGBTQ Vocabulary Extravaganzafrom the Safe Zone Project
- Understanding the Complexities of Gender
Killermann, Sam (2013), TEDxUofIChicago - The Genderbread Person v3from It's Pronounced Metrosexual
- The Myth-Busting History of Edna GriffinSwalwell, Katy & Gallagher, Jennifer (2019), from Civil Rights Teaching
- #LastWordsSpotts, Kim (2018), from DC Black Lives Matter Week in Action
- Beginning with Disability: IntroductionDavis, Lennard J. (2018), New York: Routledge
- Beginning with Disability: Reassigning MeaningLinton, Simi (2018), New York: Routledge
From Domains/Dimensions Related to Diversity:
Students will be able to analyze how culture and diversity are connected to structured inequalities, disproportionate power relations, systematic and social oppressions, and privilege, in both their contemporary and historical expressions. Students will also be able to describe how intersectionality shapes one’s perceptions, understanding, and actions in interaction with others.
- Privilege, Oppression, and DifferenceJohnson, Allan G. (2001), from Privilege, Power, and Difference, Boston: McGraw-Hill
- Getting off the Hook: Denial and ResistanceJohnson, Allan G. (2001), from Privilege, Power, and Difference, Boston: McGraw-Hill
- Belonging: a Culture of Placehooks, bell (2009), New York: Routledge. (OhioLINK record).
- Don't Cancel Your Class!from The Brook Center for Empowerment and Wellbeing
- Race & Privilege: A Social ExperimentRegardless of Race (2016), CNA Insider
- Privilege for Salefrom the Safe Zone Project
- Dear White, Straight, Cisgender, Man People: You Are Privilegedfrom It's Pronounced Metrosexual
- 30+ Examples of Male Privilegesfrom It's Pronounced Metrosexual
- 30+ Examples of Heterosexual (Straight) Privilegesfrom It's Pronounced Metrosexual
- 30+ Examples of Middle-to-Upper Class Privilegesfrom It's Pronounced Metrosexual
- 30+ Examples of Christian Privilegesfrom It's Pronounced Metrosexual
- 30+ Examples of Cisgender Privilegesfrom It's Pronounced Metrosexual
- Sometimes You're a CaterpillarRamsey, Franchesca (2015)
From Domains/Dimensions Related to Diversity:
Students will be able to apply concepts of intersectionality and power to multiple social contexts through perspective-taking exercise, reflection, and analysis. In addition, students will be able to critique differences in power and/or positionality using multiple aspects of identity as needed to respond to complex social situations.and how these perceptions are perpetuated historically.
- Defective and Deficient: White Supremacy and Disability Oppression Tangled TogetherClare, Eli (2019), Understanding and Dismantling Privilege 9(1): 1-7
- And the Youth Shall Lead Us: 16 Stories of Young People on the Frontlines of U.S. Social Movementsfrom Civil Rights Teaching
- Resistance 101: A Lesson on Social Justice Activists and StrategiesMenkart, Deborah & Acosta, Allison (2018), from Teaching for Change.
- Raise Your Voice: the Role of Media in Black ActivismReinhard, Rachel B. (2016), UC Berkeley History-Social Science Project
- Responding to Racism (Lesson 6.1)from Creating Cultural Competencies
