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Exploring The Role Of Intersectionality In The Great Depression

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Intersectionality is a concept that takes into account a person’s or group of people’s race, gender, age, and etc. People are more than just one aspect; there are many components that affect a person’s or a group of people’s experiences. African Americans have been grouped together as oppressed people struggling to be seen as equal to their white counterparts. However, there is so much more than just a “struggle to be seen as equal” to only white people. Black women struggled to be equal to black men; white men; and even white women, black men struggled to be equal to white men, lower-classed black women have struggled to be equal to middle-classed black women – the list could go on. Generalizing an entire racial group eliminates the possibility of internal struggles within the group itself. Intersectionality broadens and narrows one’s perspective by bringing about issues that many may have faced, but also issues certain genders and/or classes have faced – just based on their gender and/or class alone. However, intersectionality is not just used to break people a part, but to bring them together based on the different, yet similar experiences they had. The study of intersectionality is …show more content…

On a broad scale, the Great Depression affected black and white citizens. While unemployment was the most devastating problem, but certainly not the only one, it was one of the few problems African Americans would share with white Americans. Economically, African Americans also faced low living accommodations available to them and unequal pay. Politically, those who protested with sit-ins, were a part of black organizations or movements were assaulted, sprayed with water from hoses used by police, or even killed. Socially, there was segregation among black and white people and discrimination against black people at schools, the workplace,

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In the 1930s, something extremely unexpected occurred and caught everyone off guard. The Great Depression made the southern residents have to face many difficult challenges in addition to the other worries they might've had. The Great Depression caused many southern citizens to lose their jobs and be neglected based on the color of their skin, which resulted in a variation of different living conditions and lifestyles. The Great Depression made it extremely burdensome and harsh on African Americans, jobs and wages were often cut, and there was always a constant need of finding new ways to survive. First, the African American race probably faced the most challenges and difficulties during the Great Depression.

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