Week Two Analytic Memo Please respond to the following prompt. Your analytic memo will be due at 11:59pm on Saturday of this week, meaning on Sunday at midnight it is late, and late work will not be...

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Title: Week Two: Analytic Memo
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Date: June 5, 2021
Subject: Intersectionality
Hello,
This memo is to inform about intersectionality, which is an analytical framework that helps to understand the approach how aspect of individual’s social and political identity combines to create different modes of discrimination and privilege. This is an interconnected nature of social categories, which include gender; race, sex and class, which are applied in each group or in an individual life and, these create overlapping as well as interdependency of discrimination or disadvantage.
It considers the overlapping identities of the individual and experience in order to understand the complexities of the prejudices they face. As stated by Coaston, the term intersectionality was coined in 1989, by Kimberle Crenshaw who is a civil right activist as well as legal scholar. These intersecting as well as overlapping of the social identities may be both oppressive as well as empowering. For example, a black woman might suffer from discrimination in her workplace or any kind of business-related zones.
However, it is to be noted that, it is not distinctly due to her race because the black men are not discriminated anyhow in business, nor distinctly due to her gender because the business again does not discriminate against the white women but due to the combination of these two factors. As stated by Harris and Leonardo, intersectionality broadens the perspectives of feminism, which focus on the experience of women who were both white and middle class to include the different experiences of women who are poor, women of color, immigrant women and other groups.
This is an analytical framework, which identifies the way; the interlocking system of power affect those, who belong to the marginalized society. This is an analysis, which consider all the factors, which can be applied to an individual in combination, rather than considering each factor in isolation. As mentioned by Costanza-Chock, Collin highlights the various intersection of social inequality and termed it as the matrix of domination, which defines the sociological...