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Read the excerpt from legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw's 1989 essay:

'With White women as the starting point for feminist theory and Black men as the starting point for antiracist politics, Black women are frequently excluded from both. This exclusion is reinforced by the belief that the disadvantages of race and gender are mutually exclusive—that is, that they occur along single, non-overlapping axes.'

Which of the following concepts did Crenshaw introduce to address the exclusion described in the excerpt?

  1. A
    Pan-African emigrationism
  2. B
    Mainstream second-wave feminism
  3. IntersectionalityCevap
  4. D
    Black Power nationalism

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Intersectionality
The correct answer is intersectionality. Legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw coined this term in 1989 to describe how race, gender, and other social categories intersect to shape the unique experiences of discrimination faced by Black women, who are otherwise marginalized by movements that treat race and gender as mutually exclusive.

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1
Analyze the excerpt to identify the core issue being described.
The excerpt explains that Black women are excluded from mainstream feminist theory and antiracist politics because these frameworks treat the disadvantages of race and gender as separate, single-axis issues.
Understanding the critique of single-axis frameworks helps identify the specific analytical concept designed to correct it.
2
Identify the concept introduced by Kimberlé Crenshaw to address this problem.
Kimberlé Crenshaw introduced the term intersectionality to describe how multiple forms of discrimination overlap and interact.
This concept directly aligns with the description of overlapping axes of oppression.

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Intersectionality and the critique of single-axis frameworks in Black feminism.
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