Race, Class, Gender And Sexuality, Ability, Ethnicity and the Intersectionality Theory

Assignment 4: Race, Class, Gender And Sexuality, Ability, Ethnicity
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Assignment 4: Race, Class, Gender And Sexuality, Ability, Ethnicity
Intersectionality theory is applicable to understand social inequalities by sexuality, class, ethnicity, gender, and race. It is based on the analysis of power relations and inspired by heterosexism, classism, patriarchy, and racism. Analogies are defined as the perspective held by a marginalized person or group (Stepan & Gilman, 2018). The metaphors describe the layered blanket of oppression that marginalized people encounter at the intersection of colonialism, racism, and patriarchy.
Each person or group is in a social position that entails an interreacting structure of oppression understood by the metaphor of intersectionality (Hartigan, 2005). This is where race and gender are treated as mutually exclusive. The first example is Ismamphphoa. Islamic women undergo discrimination because they are female and due to their religion (Elia, 2006). A second example is the meanings and labels assigned to whites who had relationships with Indians. These whites were regarded as getting at risk of being ethnically and morally redefined. In addition, these whites were considered to be disloyal to native-white conflicts (Nagel, 2003). Thus, due to intersectionality, native women are harmed either due to race discrimination or sex discrimination.
The settler colonialism and race/gender/sexuality interactions were also used to construct the Native Americans as "Other." The sexual depictions of the native Americans led to a general perspective about Indian life as culturally and morally inferior to American and European societies. The Indians were presented as sexually dangerous. This was used to justify the conflicts against the native communities and remove Indians from locations picked by whites for settlement. The Native Indians were regarded as an "Other" since they were ranked inferior sexually. The gender was also used to construct Native Americans as "Other." For example, white men with sexual relations with Indian women were regarded as risks to white morality and not white security. Sexual relationships with Indian women were regarded as degrading despite the widespread sexual contact between the two. Race intersections were also used to construct Native Americans as "other" base...