Intersectionality is based on the idea that not all women have the same gendered constructs. Women’s experiences are influenced and shaped by constructs relating to gender AND race; gender AND sexuality; gender AND class status; gender AND citizenship. We begin by looking at the intersection of gender AND race with examining the social constructs of black women. After exploring Week 8’s selections, explain why intersectionality is an important framework to apply to gender? What do we have to lose if we neglect an intersectional perspective?
Readings:
Kang, et al. Unit II “Race”
Kendall, “Race, Gender and the Social Construction of Mental Illness in the Criminal Justice System”
Intersectionality
Intersectionality is a term that is caught on in the last few years, but what does it even mean and what is it got to do with women`s rights? Intersectionality is the concept that all oppression is linked. More explicitly, the Oxford Dictionary defines intersectionality as “the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantaged.” Without an intersectional lens, our efforts to tackle inequalities and injustices towards women are likely to just end up perpetuating systems of inequalities. Feminist writer Zoe Samudzi reminds us that “intersectionality is such a vital framework for understanding systems of power, because `woman` is not a catchall category that alone defines all our relationships to power.”
Longfellow’s Unique American Hero in Evangeline
A one of a kind American saint unique in long individual in Evangeline: The clarification of Adam’s long individual in the United States is something else. Through the portrayal of the story sonnet Evangelin, the idea of American Adam can be seen in different manners. R. W. B. Lewis investigated the journey for American Renaissance journalists and made a one of a kind American writing in the 1955 content “American Adam in the Nineteenth Century: Innocence, Tragedy and Tradition”.
In 1847, the American writer Henry Wadsworth Long Fellow distributed a long story sonnet about the ejection of the Acadians called Evangeline, delineating an imaginary individual Ivagne. Phosphorus’ quandary. This sonnet got in vogue and got acclaimed. Evangeline oak is a vacation destination in Louisiana. The melody “Acadian Driftwood” recorded by The Band in 1975 speaks to the development and Acadian development. Antonine Maillet composed a novel called Pélagie-la-Charrette because of huge wreck. It was granted to Prix Goncourt in 1979. Fantastic PréPark is Canadian National Historic Site of Grand-Pére, Nova Scotia State and is protected as a landmark to the outcast. It incorporates the commemoration church and the sculpture of Evangeline, the subject of long individual verse. In 2018, Canadian history specialist and writer A.J.B. Johnston distributed YA’s epic called The Hat, propelled by the occasion in the Grand Prix of 1755.
On the off chance that the understudies meet a long individual before attending a university, at that point the writer they know isn’t in this assortment: Evangeline, “Ha Faasha’s melody”, “Million’s romance”. This long individual’s assortment is our “revisionist” long individual in the second 50% of the twentieth century and nearly perceives renowned journalists who may have thought of them, aside from sonnets like “Hymns of life” can not. On the off chance that verse understudies don’t really peruse Long Fellows, he just tuned in to him (in an ordinary case) and they need to know why he is so celebrated.
These are a ton of extraordinary writers. Long Fellow is one of only a handful barely any writers who joined new works. He made a few best sonnets ever. Sonnets of the Evangeline, Haihuasha tunes, and long individual stories, for example, Miles Stendish’s tribute give a sentimental perspective on the early American history and vote based goals. Evangelin is perhaps the longest sonnet at any point composed by an essayist. It is mainstream through the differentiation everything being equal. It is perused, cherished and thought in an unassuming bungalow (Wagonknecht P.85). Evangelin is difficult to misrepresent his style at home and abroad, which is the principal long verse that rose above his own time in American writing (Wagonknecht P.85)