Title: How is Race, Class and Gender Interconnected In Understanding Oppression? – CUNY Leadership Fellows
Headings: How is Race, Class and Gender Interconnected In Understanding Oppression?
How is Race, Class and Gender Interconnected In Understanding Oppression?
Content: One solution is to start early. We must start early in teaching children at a young to interact with other children from diverse backgrounds. As a result, when the children become adults, most will be exposed to different people of racial, class, religion and genders so that they can recognize their own biases and take steps so that they do not oppress others. Some major themes of Race, Class, and Gender by Patricia Hill Collins are slavery, race, class, gender, oppression, systematic relationships of domination and subordination, dichotomous thinking. White privilege, hierarchies, individual biographies, images, and institutions. White privilege is a result of the history of slavery, contemporary laws, racist ideas, and practices. I have never heard about White privilege until I reached college. I think it is because I never met and interacted with a white student. Collins mentions that race, gender, and class are always interconnected and you cannot separate them. People have multiple identities and may be oppressed because they have those identities.