Understanding Intersectionality
This worksheet introduces Grade 8 students to the concept of intersectionality, exploring how different social identities combine to create unique experiences of discrimination and privilege.
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Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your ability. This worksheet will help you understand how different parts of a person's identity can affect their experiences in society.
What is Intersectionality?
Intersectionality is a framework for understanding how aspects of a person's social and political identities combine to create different modes of discrimination and privilege. It highlights how various forms of inequality (like racism, sexism, classism, and ableism) do not exist independently of each other but are intertwined and often experienced simultaneously.
1. Who coined the term 'intersectionality'?
Gloria Steinem
Kimberlé Crenshaw
Bell Hooks
Angela Davis
2. Intersectionality helps us understand how different forms of inequality are and often experienced simultaneously.
3. A person's experiences of discrimination can be more complex when they have multiple identities.
4. Explain in your own words why it is important to consider intersectionality when discussing social justice issues.
5. Intersectionality suggests that all people experience discrimination in the same way, regardless of their identities.
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False
Match each term with its definition.
6. Privilege
a. Unfair treatment of a person or group based on prejudice
7. Discrimination
b. A special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group
8. Identity
c. The qualities, beliefs, personality, looks, and/or expressions that make a person or group.
9. Think about a fictional character or a public figure. Describe how at least two of their social identities (e.g., race, gender, class, ability) might intersect to influence their experiences, opportunities, or challenges.