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Intersectionality as an Analytical Framework for Social Inequality

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Kimberlé Crenshaw coined 'intersectionality' in 1989 to explain how Black women's experiences of discrimination were often invisible in both feminist and anti-racist movements, because those movements focused on only one identity at a time.

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Have you ever felt that your whole identity is more than the sum of its parts? Why can't we simply add up race, gender, and class to understand inequality?