Watch Kimberle Crenshaw’s TEDTalk titled “The Urgency of Intersectionality”


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Watch Kimberle Crenshaw’s TEDTalk titled “The Urgency of Intersectionality”


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Responses should be in depth

First, review on Race/Ethnic Inequality and Gender Inequality.

Then, watch Kimberle Crenshaw’s TEDTalk titled “The Urgency of Intersectionality” :

Reply to this post with the answers to the questions below.

  1. What is your initial reaction to this video? Does she present information that has re-framed your perspective on the problem of police violence? Is her framing of the problem based in objective arguments or subjective ones?
  2. Based on what you’ve read/watched/discussed in this class so far, explain the concept of intersectionality in your own words. How does this relate to the concept of the sociological imagination? Or the ‘triple bind’ faced by women of color as discussed in your textbook?
  3. Which one of the three sociological frameworks (conflict, structural functionalism or symbolic interactionism) do you think Crenshaw is operating from? Why? Be specific and thorough in your response.