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Intersectionality (Evaluation)

 * Intersectionality: Intersectionality
 * Is the article's content relevant to the topic? Yes, the content is relevant and related to the topic.
 * Are some areas under- or over-developed? I believe the the transnational intersectionality section is severely underdeveloped and needs to be explored.
 * Is it written neutrally? Yes, because it includes criticism and sources that discuss the works of other black feminist.
 * Does each claim have a citation? Are the citations reliable? Yes, there is an abundance of sources that I plan to individually review.
 * Does the article tackle one of Wikipedia's equity gaps (coverage of historically underrepresented or misrepresented populations or subjects)? It covers historically underrepresented/misrepresented population considering that intersectionality applies to oppressed persons placed at a variety of disadvantages.
 * What can you add? Consider posting some of your ideas to the article's Talk page. I will add a section discussing the three different forms of intersectionality and discuss intersectionality before it was given an actual name. Also the in practice section will be completely revised because the title and content needs improvement.

Bibliography (Draft)

 * Kimberlé Crenshaw, “Mapping the Margins”
 * Jennifer Nash, Re-thinking Intersectionality
 * Linda Black and David Stone, Expanding the Definition of Privilege: The Concept of Social Privilege
 * Brittney Cooper, Intersectionality Oxford Entry

Different forms of intersectionality
Intersectionality demonstrates a multifaced connection between race, gender, and other systems that work together to oppress while allowing privilege. Intersectionality is a notion that provides reasoning for certain instances of oppression in society. Intersectionality originated from critical race studies and entails the interconnection of gender

and race. Intersectionality is relative because it displays how race, gender, and other components that operate as one to shape the experiences of others. Crenshaw used intersectionality to denote how race, class, gender, and other systems combine created intersectionality and shaped the experiences of many by making room for

privilege. Crenshaw used intersectionality to display the disadvantages caused by intersecting systems creating structural, political, and representation aspects of violence against minorities in the workplace and society.

In Kimberle Crenshaw's, Crenshaw Mapping Margins, she uses and explains three different forms of Intersectionality to describe the violence that women experience. According to Crenshaw, there are three forms of intersectionality: structural, political, and representational intersectionality.

Structural intersectionality is used to describe how different structures work together and create a complex which highlight the differences in women of color experiences with domestic violence and rape. Structural intersectionality entail the ways in which classism, sexism, and racism interlock and oppress women of color while molding their experiences in different arenas. Crenshaw's analysis of structural intersectionality was used during her field study of battered women. In this study, Crenshaw uses intersectionality to display the multilayered oppressions that women who are victims of domestic violence face.

Political intersectionality highlight two conflicting systems within in the political arena which separates women and women of color into two subordinate groups. Women of color experiences differ from that of white women and men of color due to their race and gender often intersecting. White women suffer from gender bias and men of color suffer from racial bias, however both experiences differ from that of women of color, because women of color experience both racial and gender bias. According to Crenshaw a political failure of the antiracist and feminist discourses was the exclusion of the intersection of race and gender that places priority on the interest of "people of color" and "women," thus disregarding one while highlighting the other. Political engagement should reflect support of women of color a prime example of the exclusion of women of color that show the difference in the experiences of white women and women of color, is the women's suffrage march.

Representational intersectionality advocates for the creation of imagery that is supportive of women of color. Representational intersectionality condemns sexist and racist marginalization of women of color in representation. Representational intersectionality also highlights the importance of women of color having representation in media and contemporary settings.