Download or read book Intersectional Advocacy written by Margaret Perez Brower and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-04 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A call to action to redraw policy boundaries until they transform U.S. democracy to be more inclusive, equitable, and just.

Download or read book On Intersectionality written by Kimberle Crenshaw and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major publishing event, the collected writings of the groundbreaking scholar who "first coined intersectionality as a political framework" (Salon) For more than twenty years, scholars, activists, educators, and lawyers--inside and outside of the United States--have employed the concept of intersectionality both to describe problems of inequality and to fashion concrete solutions. In particular, as the Washington Post reported recently, "the term has been used by social activists as both a rallying cry for more expansive progressive movements and a chastisement for their limitations." Drawing on black feminist and critical legal theory, Kimberlé Crenshaw developed the concept of intersectionality, a term she coined to speak to the multiple social forces, social identities, and ideological instruments through which power and disadvantage are expressed and legitimized. In this comprehensive and accessible introduction to Crenshaw's work, readers will find key essays and articles that have defined the concept of intersectionality, collected together for the first time. The book includes a sweeping new introduction by Crenshaw as well as prefaces that contextualize each of the chapters. For anyone interested in movement politics and advocacy, or in racial justice and gender equity, On Intersectionality will be compulsory reading from one of the most brilliant theorists of our time.

Download or read book Affirmative Advocacy written by Dara Z. Strolovitch and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States boasts scores of organizations that offer crucial representation for groups that are marginalized in national politics, from women to racial minorities to the poor. Here, in the first systematic study of these organizations, Dara Z. Strolovitch explores the challenges and opportunities they face in the new millennium, as waning legal discrimination coincides with increasing political and economic inequalities within the populations they represent. Drawing on rich new data from a survey of 286 organizations and interviews with forty officials, Strolovitch finds that groups too often prioritize the interests of their most advantaged members: male rather than female racial minorities, for example, or affluent rather than poor women. But Strolovitch also finds that many organizations try to remedy this inequity, and she concludes by distilling their best practices into a set of principles that she calls affirmative advocacy—a form of representation that aims to overcome the entrenched but often subtle biases against people at the intersection of more than one marginalized group. Intelligently combining political theory with sophisticated empirical methods, Affirmative Advocacy will be required reading for students and scholars of American politics.

Download or read book The Intersectional Environmentalist written by Leah Thomas and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 2022 TIME100 Next honoree and the activist who coined the term comes a primer on intersectional environmentalism for the next generation of activists looking to create meaningful, inclusive, and sustainable change. The Intersectional Environmentalist examines the inextricable link between environmentalism, racism, and privilege, and promotes awareness of the fundamental truth that we cannot save the planet without uplifting the voices of its people -- especially those most often unheard. Written by Leah Thomas, a prominent voice in the field and the activist who coined the term "Intersectional Environmentalism," this book is simultaneously a call to action, a guide to instigating change for all, and a pledge to work towards the empowerment of all people and the betterment of the planet. Thomas shows how not only are Black, Indigenous and people of color unequally and unfairly impacted by environmental injustices, but she argues that the fight for the planet lies in tandem to the fight for civil rights; and in fact, that one cannot exist without the other. An essential read, this book addresses the most pressing issues that the people and our planet face, examines and dismantles privilege, and looks to the future as the voice of a movement that will define a generation.

Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Intersectionality in Public Policy written by Olena Hankivsky and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 755 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grounded in black feminist scholarship and activism and formally coined in 1989 by black legal scholar Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, intersectionality has garnered significant attention in the field of public policy and other disciplines/fields of study. The potential of intersectionality, however, has not been fully realized in policy, largely due to the challenges of operationalization. Recently some scholars and activists began to advance conceptual clarity and guidance for intersectionality policy applications; yet a pressing need remains for knowledge development and exchange in relation to empirical work that demonstrates how intersectionality improves public policy. This handbook fills this void by highlighting the key challenges, possibilities and critiques of intersectionality-informed approaches in public policy. It brings together international scholars across a variety of policy sectors and disciplines to consider the state of intersectionality in policy research and analysis. Importantly, it offers a global perspective on the added value and “how-to” of intersectionality-informed policy approaches that aim to advance equity and social justice.

Download or read book The Politics of Intersectional Practice written by Ashlee Christoffersen and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2024-05-23 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is increasingly recognized that, to achieve social justice, policies and organizations need to apply an intersectional approach, rather than addressing inequalities separately. However, intersectionality is a challenging theory to apply, as policy makers and practitioners often navigate the confines of divided policy areas. This book examines the use of intersectionality in UK policy and practice, with a specific focus on NGOs, outlining five distinct interpretations of intersectional practice and their implications. Drawing from extensive fieldwork with a diverse range of equality organizations, this book offers invaluable insights into how policy and practice can be organized in more (and less) intersectional ways.

Download or read book Gender Intersections and Institutions written by Louise K. Davidson-Schmich and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2020-03-06 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Germany serves as a case study of when and how members of intersectional groups—individuals belonging to two or more disadvantaged social categories—capture the attention of policymakers, and what happens when they do. This edited volume identifies three venues through which intersectional groups are able to form alliances and generate policy discussions regarding their concerns. Original empirical case studies focus on a wide range of timely subjects, including the intersexed, gender and disability rights, lesbian parenting, women working in STEM fields, workers’ rights in feminized sectors, women in combat, and Muslim women and girls.

Download or read book Intersectionality and Social Change written by Lynne M. Woehrle and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-17 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 37 asks, what can the emerging discipline of intersectionality studies contribute to our quest to understand and analyze social movements, conflict and change? Through the intersectional lens questions often ignored and populations traditionally marginalized become the heart of the analysis.

Download or read book Critical Applied Linguistics written by Hayriye Kayı-Aydar and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly accessible, up-to-date introduction provides an overview of critical applied linguistics through an intersectionality framework. The book reflects recent developments through a discussion and evaluation of key questions, diverse perspectives, and practices for social change. As it unpacks different forms of marginalization and privilege, it relates them to language use, critical pedagogies, and critical intersectional advocacy in applied linguistics. This book is a source of reference for all applied linguists; undergraduate/graduate students in applied linguistics, TESOL, and other relevant programs; classroom teachers; and language teacher educators. It aims to foster critical reflection, critical thinking, and intersectional advocacy. Examples, suggested readings, discussion questions, and questions for reflection not only help personalize the content but also enable the reader to further understand what motivates research, critical practice, and social action in critical applied linguistics.

Download or read book Intersectional Pedagogy written by Gal Harmat and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intersectional Pedagogy: Creative Education Practices for Gender and Peace Work teaches educators to use innovative learning methods to encourage students to rethink culture, gender, race, sexual orientation, and social class with a deep awareness of accessible language as a means of communication across disagreements. With a focus on emancipatory critical pedagogy, as well as tools to promote sustainable peace and human rights advocacy, the book's main objective is to examine and present methods that can help students address rapidly changing social situations. Recent developments under discussion include the #MeToo and #WhyIDidntReport campaigns to counter sexual violence, campaigns to support refugees and migrants, and other human rights issues. The book examines how theory can be translated into practice and how various dilemmas pertaining to young people navigating a changing world can be successfully addressed in the classroom. This book is an ideal reading for researchers and postgraduate students in education. It is written for practitioners in peace education and for those within traditional and alternative academia who wish to promote intersectional awareness in their teaching. Chapters 1 and 2 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Download or read book Gendered Mobilizations and Intersectional Challenges written by Jill Irvine and published by ECPR Press. This book was released on 2019-07-27 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A long and ongoing challenge for social justice movements has been how to address difference. Traditional strategies have often emphasized universalizing messages and common identities as means of facilitating collective action. Feminist movements, gay liberation movements, racial justice movements, and even labour movements, have all focused predominantly on respective singular dimensions of oppression. Each has called on diverse groups of people to mobilize, but without necessarily acknowledging or grappling with other relevant dimensions of identity and oppression. While focusing on commonality can be an effective means of mobilization, universalist messages can also obscure difference and can serve to exclude and marginalize groups in already precarious positions. Scholars and activists, particularly those located at the intersection of these movements, have long advocated for more inclusive approaches that acknowledge the significance and complexity of different social locations, with mixed success. Gendered Mobilizations and Intersectional Challenges provides a much-needed intersectional analysis of social movements in Europe and North America. With an emphasis on gendered mobilization, it looks at movements traditionally understood and/or classified as singularly gendered as well as those organized around other dimensions of identity and oppression or at the intersection of multiple dimensions.

Download or read book Audacious Voices written by Holly Blake and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspiring and hopeful, Audacious Voices is a collection of twelve stories from alumnae/alumni of WILL*, a feminist model for education. Each author featured in this book is working, in their own distinct way, to make their communities more equitable—and their stories illustrate how different elements of the WILL* program influence and inspire them to act with such intentionality. Author-activist Courtney Martin writes in The New Better Off that the times we live in may break our hearts, but they don’t have to break our spirit; it’s that spirit that these stories capture, alongside the power of a feminist educational program that engenders such spirit. Emphasizing hope, empathy, resiliency, and solutions by showcasing the transformative power of inclusive leadership, advocacy, and mentorship, Audacious Voices reminds us that real change is possible, even in the current political climate.

Download or read book Meeting Families Where They Are written by Beth Harry and published by Disability, Culture, and Equit. This book was released on 2020 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The authors examine the importance of equitable family advocacy in special education professionals' work, in order to redress inequities that often challenge children's and families' rights to sufficient and equitable educational outcomes. Harry and Ocasio-Stoutenburg draw on intersectionality to inform the work of advocacy. In the words of the authors, "our purpose is to change the language of advocacy from its original meaning of one who speaks for-to one who speaks with." Advocacy is not a "one size fits all" kind of work. The authors examine the socio-historical context of advocacy work, its further development in the Civil Rights Era, and provide grounded examples of doing advocacy work at the school/community level, as well as at the policy level. The book intends to provide a working model of co-constructed advocacy to benefit all families"--

Download or read book Intersectional Class Struggle written by Michael Beyea Reagan and published by AK Press. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative study, explores the relevance of class as a theoretical category in our world today, arguing that leading traditions of class analysis have missed major elements of what class is and how it operates. It combines instersectional theory and materialism to show that culture, economics, ideology, and consciousness are all factors that go into making “class” meaningful. Using a historical lens, it studies the experiences of working class peoples, from migrant farm workers in California’s central valley, to the “factory girls” of New England, and black workers in the South to explore the variety of working-class experiences. It investigates how the concepts of racial capitalism and black feminist thought, when applied to class studies and popular movements, allow us to walk and chew gum at the same time—to recognize that our movements can be diverse and particularistic as well as have elements of the universal experience shared by all workers. Ultimately, it argues that class is made up of all of us, it is of ourselves, in all our contradiction and complexity.

Download or read book Dara Baldwin written by Eva Campbell and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2024-05-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered what it truly means to fight for justice at the intersections of race and disability? Can one person's voice ignite a movement for inclusivity in a world that often overlooks the most marginalized? "Dara Baldwin: The Advocate for Change, Intersection of Race, Disability, and Justice" explores the profound impact of Dara Baldwin, a towering figure in the disability rights movement who challenges societal norms to advocate for those at the intersection of race and disability. This biography delves into Baldwin's inspiring journey, her strategic battles in the halls of Washington D.C., and her passionate advocacy that seeks to reshape how society views disability and racial justice. Through her story, readers gain unique insights into the challenges and triumphs of building movements that aim to be truly inclusive. Baldwin's experiences offer not only a reflection on what has been accomplished but also a forward-looking perspective on what still needs to be done. Her narrative is a compelling testament to the power of resilience and dedication in the face of systemic inequities. This book is more than just a biography-it's an essential guide for anyone looking to understand the complexities of advocacy, intersectionality, and social justice. It is an invitation to learn from Baldwin's extensive experience and to take inspiration from her unwavering commitment to change. Get on this enlightening journey with Dara Baldwin to understand the crucial role of intersectional advocacy in achieving social justice. Let her story inspire you to be part of the change we all wish to see in the world. Get your copy today and join the movement towards a more equitable society.

Download or read book Emerging Intersections written by Bonnie Thornton Dill and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States is known as a "melting pot" yet this mix tends to be volatile and contributes to a long history of oppression, racism, and bigotry. Emerging Intersections, an anthology of ten previously unpublished essays, looks at the problems of inequality and oppression from new angles and promotes intersectionality as an interpretive tool that can be utilized to better understand the ways in which race, class, gender, ethnicity, and other dimensions of difference shape our lives today. The book showcases innovative contributions that expand our understanding of how inequality affects people of color, demonstrates the ways public policies reinforce existing systems of inequality, and shows how research and teaching using an intersectional perspective compels scholars to become agents of change within institutions. By offering practical applications for using intersectional knowledge, Emerging Intersections will help bring us one step closer to achieving positive institutional change and social justice.

Download or read book Complicating Advocacy with Intersectional Technofeminism written by Sarah J. Warren-Riley and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As digital modes of distribution proliferate, so do the options for participating in advocacy. Given that advocacy increasingly transpires on digital and social media platforms and results in offline organization and actions, it is crucial at this juncture to develop a framework designed to grapple with the complexity of these efforts and their effects. My research theorizes a socially just framework for advocacy enacted in digital and socially mediated spaces, as well as in everyday mundane texts. Specifically, in this dissertation project, I challenge the advocacy-as-always-already-good paradigm and propose a complex approach to analyzing and doing advocacy. The framework I propose is informed by an intersectional technofeminist rhetorical methodology that seeks to assist advocacy researchers and practitioners working toward social justice in identifying the potentials and constraints of advocacy in digital/socially mediated and classroom spaces and ensuring socially just results. Specifically, this framework asks researchers and advocates to examine advocacy through a lens focused on the complicated ways in which these efforts: (1) intersect and interact with individual bodies, lived experiences, and societal power dynamics; (2) emerge from and spawn additional advocacy efforts; and (3) illuminate and exacerbate the unequal platforms of various publics both within and beyond technologically mediated communication spaces.Chapter I provides an overview of the project, the research questions guiding this project, and exigencies for engaging in this work. Next, I offer working definitions of the foundational concepts and a literature review that establishes how this research contributes to technofeminist, advocacy, and social justice scholarship in rhetoric, composition, and technical communication studies. Chapter II builds my intersectional technofeminist rhetorical methodology for interrogating digital advocacy, explains the framework's features, discusses the methods employed to mobilize this framework, and acknowledges the benefits and limitations of using this approach. Chapter III illustrates one potential for utilizing an intersectional technofeminist approach through the analysis of an extended case study of several distinct interactions of the #MeToo movement across various platforms and cultures. Chapter IV applies an intersectional technofeminist methodology to another extended case study of a different interaction of the #MeToo movement to show how this framework can demonstrate the complexity of advocacy efforts when they intersect with institutional power centers. Chapter V outlines potential pedagogical approaches to enacting an intersectional technofeminist rhetorical approach to using advocacy and social media in the classroom. In the final concluding chapter, Chapter VI discusses implications for the public and for the disciplines of digital rhetorics, public rhetorics, and technical communication. Additionally, I forecast potential future work that might arise from the intersectional technofeminist rhetorical approach that I have developed in this dissertation.