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SECTION I – Policies, practices, procedures and laws (PPPL) Intersectionality is “[a]n interdisciplinary approach that considers”(Hancock 2005) two or more intersections of race, class, gender, sexuality, and disability as “simultaneous processes” (Holvino 2010) that identify and rank members of society through systems of power and social relations (Jones 2003; McWhorter 2004) and influences “political access, equality and the potential for any form of justice (Hancock 2005). In addition to the definition of social structure: "rules [policies, practices, procedures, and laws] regulating the allocation of power and resources along race/gender lines" (Nakano Glenn 2004). A few examples of how the application of social structure existed historically can be seen in Black codes and Jim Crow laws, however, the most recent application is racial profiling. In order to understand how intersectionality applies in real world systems within PPPL one can draw attention to political and structural inequalities (Cho, Crenshaw & McCall 2013). Two recent examples: Voting Rights Act Section 5: On June 25, 2013 The United States Supreme Court invalidated the formula used to determine which states are covered by Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. This decision no longer requires pre-approval by certain states to change voting rules. According to the Brennan Center for Justice, Section 5 blocked laws in 2012 that restricted voting rights for minority American citizens; communities of color, elderly, disabled, and college students, in Texas, South Carolina and Florida. In the aftermath the Department of Justice is seeking to block North Carolina restrictive voting laws. http://www.brennancenter.org/newsletter/voting-newsletter-doj-challenges-north-carolina-restrictions School-to-Prison-Pipeline: Zero tolerance policies in schools have led to a significant increase in disciplinary actions that involve the presence of law enforcement officers. In some states, such as Mississippi, one school district has police arrest students for minor classroom behaviors and a district in Alabama has a police officer onsite in their high schools (Elias 2013). There are disproportionate numbers of racial minorities and children with disabilities who are subjected to this institutional system of structural inequality. http://www.tolerance.org/magazine/number-43-spring-2013/school-to-prison

SECTION II – Applications of intersectionality Some scholars have called for a wider net to be cast to include the practices in the political world (Hancock, 2007; Holvino, 2010), education (McCall, 2005; Jones 2003; Cooper 2009), healthcare (Kelly 2009) (Viruell-Fuentes, Miranda & Abdulrahim 2012), employment, wealth, and property (Ladson-Billings & Tate IV 1995). Within the institution of education, Jones’ (2003) research on working class women in academia discusses the notion of meritocracy through the ranks of social strata but becomes further complicated by race and the additional external forces that oppress. In the systems of healthcare and people of color, researchers found that six months post 9/11 an increase in poor birth outcomes of children with parents with “Arab” or “Muslim” sounding names and how immigration policies also directly impact the fundamental causes of disease (Viruell-Fuentes, Miranda & Abdulrahim 2012), Additionally applications with regard to property and wealth can be traced to the American historical narrative that is filled “with tensions and struggles over property-in its various forms. From the removal of Indians (and later Japanese Americans) from the land, to military conquest of the Mexicans, to the construction of Africans as property the ability to define, possess, and own property has been a central feature of power in America…[and where] social benefits accrue largely to property owners” (Ladson-Billings & Tate IV 1995) that is visible through generations to date. One would apply the intersectionality framework analysis to various areas where race, class, gender, sexuality and ability are affected by policies, procedures, practices, and laws in “context-specific inquiries, including, for example, analyzing the multiple ways that race and gender interact with class in the labor market; interrogating the ways that states constitute regulatory regimes of identity, reproduction, and family formation..” (Cho, Crenshaw & McCall 2013); examining the inequities in “the power relations [of the intersectionality] of whiteness.. [where] the denial of power and privilege .. of whiteness, and middle-classness..” thereby not addressing “the role of power it wields in social relations (Levine-Rasky, 2011).

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This website is based at the New York University School of Law that offers a legal challenge to policies, laws and practices that institutional structures construct. For my analysis on voting rights issues to show an example of political inequality. http://www.brennancenter.org/issues/voting-rights-elections, and http://www.brennancenter.org/newsletter/voting-newsletter-doj-challenges-north-carolina-restrictions Crenshaw, K. (1991). Mapping the margins: Intersectionality, identity politics, and violence against women of color. Stanford law review, 1241-129. As the scholar to introduce the theory of intersectionality Crenshaw follows up in this article a discussion on how identity politics of women of color is still being marginalized within groups of gender and race and to further explore the issues related to violence against women of color. Elias, M. (June 06, 2013). The School-to-Prison Pipeline. Teaching Tolerance, 52, 43, 39-40. 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Social Science &amp; Medicine, 75, 12, 2099-2106. Analysis through the lens of intersectionality on how structural racism impacts the health of immigrants and generations of people of color through access and disease. CNoemiM (talk) 00:47, 17 November 2013 (UTC)