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Intersectionality And Borderlands Theory Paper

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This section of the course is about gender and nation, which involves imagined communities, different kinds of feminism and slavery. To understand how we are and where we come from, our identity, we have to look at different aspects such as race, gender, class, culture, history = storytelling, nations and languages, just to mention some important aspects. All of these aspects interacts in shaping a person’s identity and what we believe to be true. Even though every single aspect is important my choise of keywords for this paper are, intersectionality and borderlands. Intersectionality - a theory about how various forms of discriminatory power structures interact in a community. The theory states that it is not enough just to look at one power …show more content…

Even if the black women were involved and fought for feminism, they found that they also had to fight against white women, although they struggle for female freedom and rights they had entirely different agendas. On top of that, black women also had to fight against racism. Black women felt betrayed when they discovered that the system they have believed in did not treat them equally and perhaps would never do so. ”…Feminism as a political ideology advocating social equality for all women …… While the established definition of feminism is the theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes, white women liberationists used the power granted them by virtue of their being members of the dominant race in American society to interpretfeminism in such a way that is was no longer relevant to all women. And it seemed incredible to black woman that they were being asked to support a movement whose majority participants were eager to maintain racial and class hierarchies between women.”(384) This theme can also be found in the article “Ain´t I a woman?”, the author talks about the feminist movement which has had minimal effect on black women. The author uses the following metaphor to describe her view or perspective of the equal rights for black women or rather the lack of

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