The Center for Collaborative Study of Trauma, Health Equity, and Neurobiology

Intersectional Discrimination

INTERSECTIONALITY is the complex and cumulative way that one person or group may experience multiple types of discrimination
(such as discrimination based on race + gender + sexual orientation + economic class).

 
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RESOURCES

TED Talk:  The urgency of intersectionality.   (YouTube video 18 minutes)

Law Professor, Kimberle Crenshaw, JD looks boldly at the reality of race and gender bias - to understand how the two can combine to create even more harm (CUMULATIVE TRAUMA)

BLACK GIRLS MATTER:   According to the US Department of Education 2016, Black Girls were:

  • four times more likely to be arrested; 

  • three times more likely to receive corporal punishment; 

  • three times more likely to be referred to law enforcement; and

  • twice as a likely to be physically restrained than white girls

LINK:  Black Girls Matter:  Pushed Out, Overpoliced and Underprotected
from the Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies - and - the African American Policy Forum

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