Merriam- Webster Dictionary defines identity as who someone is: the name of a person and the qualities, beliefs, etc., that makes a particular person or group different from others. Identity be constructed in many different ways including race and gender. Society forms identities for groups of people to “explain” and “understand” their differences. This can often lead to strict roles for individuals within a particular group. Identity is constantly changing within an individual, as a person grows older they may began to obtain different identities, which subject them to different groups. Sometimes the accumulation of different identities puts an individual in privileged and unprivileged states. The Intersectionality of identities may cause
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Intersectionality of identities can cause a recognition of position in society. The intersectionality of identities may cause the suppression of one. For example for many Black women, the importance of rights for Blacks is more important than women rights. Also, the oppression of Blacks may involve their children and family members, while the general perceived notion of women’s rights is only for women. Second, the exclusion of women of color during the Women’s Rights Movement caused women to have to fight for their rights in other spaces, this lack of intersectionality caused problems for both the Women's Rights movement and Civil Rights movements. The Women's Rights Movement was for the liberation of all women not just white women. While the civil rights movement was justice for all Blacks not just Black men. Audre Lorde writes in “The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House,” “Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of difference -- those of us who are poor, who are lesbians, who are Black, who are older -- know that survival is not an academic skill. It is learning how to take our differences and make them …show more content…
defines cultural identity in terms of one, shared culture, a sort of collective ‘one true self,’ hiding inside the many other, more superficial or artificially imposed ‘selves,’ which people with shared history and ancestry hold in common.(Hall, Unfinished Migrations :Reflection on the African Diaspora and the Making of The Modern World, 40) Our identities can sometimes be superseded by our bigger, categorical identity; such as race. Cultural identity, related to a shared experience. For people of African descent; “ forced labor, racial oppression, colonial conditions, and capitalist exploitation were global processes that incorporated black people through empire building”(Patterson and Kelley,Unfinished Migrations:Reflection on the African Diaspora and the Making of The Modern World, 39). This creates a commonality between people of African Descent. Other forms of culture such as music, speech and familial relations create a common experience. Nevertheless, people who do not share every experience of the larger group are not excluded from the cultural identity. Our interactions within our cultural group establishes a community of individuals with similar interests. The need for a cultural identity promotes acceptance of one’s self. While in a group of people from different cultural backgrounds, one may be forced to acknowledge the differences of each other. Thus, our cultural identity may be jeopardized in
Intersectionality of identities can cause a recognition of position in society. The intersectionality of identities may cause the suppression of one. For example for many Black women, the importance of rights for Blacks is more important than women rights. Also, the oppression of Blacks may involve their children and family members, while the general perceived notion of women’s rights is only for women. Second, the exclusion of women of color during the Women’s Rights Movement caused women to have to fight for their rights in other spaces, this lack of intersectionality caused problems for both the Women's Rights movement and Civil Rights movements. The Women's Rights Movement was for the liberation of all women not just white women. While the civil rights movement was justice for all Blacks not just Black men. Audre Lorde writes in “The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House,” “Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of difference -- those of us who are poor, who are lesbians, who are Black, who are older -- know that survival is not an academic skill. It is learning how to take our differences and make them …show more content…
defines cultural identity in terms of one, shared culture, a sort of collective ‘one true self,’ hiding inside the many other, more superficial or artificially imposed ‘selves,’ which people with shared history and ancestry hold in common.(Hall, Unfinished Migrations :Reflection on the African Diaspora and the Making of The Modern World, 40) Our identities can sometimes be superseded by our bigger, categorical identity; such as race. Cultural identity, related to a shared experience. For people of African descent; “ forced labor, racial oppression, colonial conditions, and capitalist exploitation were global processes that incorporated black people through empire building”(Patterson and Kelley,Unfinished Migrations:Reflection on the African Diaspora and the Making of The Modern World, 39). This creates a commonality between people of African Descent. Other forms of culture such as music, speech and familial relations create a common experience. Nevertheless, people who do not share every experience of the larger group are not excluded from the cultural identity. Our interactions within our cultural group establishes a community of individuals with similar interests. The need for a cultural identity promotes acceptance of one’s self. While in a group of people from different cultural backgrounds, one may be forced to acknowledge the differences of each other. Thus, our cultural identity may be jeopardized in