Blog 4 Krenshaw

 Extended comments:

I chose to do an extended comments post about Angeline’s post because it was very interesting and added a new element to think about intersectionality from that wasn’t mentioned in the article by Krenshaw.  Angeline mentioned how a big reason for women of color and people who fall in multiple oppressed groups to face discrimination more than others is due to a lack of an authentic effort to fix injustices, leaving room for people to “fall through the cracks”.  She mentioned how when efforts are made, by companies for example, to diversify their company their only intentions are to look good in the public’s eye so they will not be called out as racist and unjust.  This lack of authenticity makes for weak surface level attempts to create diversity in a workplace, inevitability still discriminating against certain groups, which oftentimes are people who fall into the intersectionality group.  Angeline argued that companies should support diversity if they truly believe in it and not to lie and halfheartedly support it when they do not believe it is important, which I agree with.

Here is a link for different lesson plans on teaching intersectionality

https://www.learningforjustice.org/magazine/summer-2016/toolkit-for-teaching-at-the-intersections

Blog 5 - Tatum

Quotes:  “A white male student in the class responded to this discussion with frustration in his response journal, writing, “It’s not my fault that Blacks don’t write books”. Had one of his elementary, high school, or college teachers ever told him that there were no Black writers? Probably not. Yet because he had never been exposed to Black authors, he had drawn his own conclusion that there were none” (Tatum 85).  In this example of prejudice we can see how racism is formed from a combination of two factors, one being the lack of exposure to information about minorities and races not in power, and two is the conclusion we draw from that misinformation/lack of information.  We can also see how this would create a spread of misinformation and prejudice, because the more racist ideas get spread the more it will become common.  When this student becomes older he may still not believe that there are black writers and share this view with his kids which will sway their beliefs. 

Ben L. video analysis