Summarize three of the most important ideas presented in the readings for RAT #3 in your own words

Summarize three of the most important ideas presented in the readings for RAT #3 in your own words

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Summarize three of the most important ideas presented in the readings for RAT #3 in your own words. Put a page number for where the ideas came from

One of the ideas discussed in this chapter is a social identity where the author tries to explain that social identity is intersectional. The author uses Collins to argue about this idea. He states that people should not get the idea of social identity as a list of privileged or oppressed groups arranged from the highest to the lowest (p.57). Instead, people have to take it as a complex social identity and how the intersection of people’s identity leads to relationships and likely ties between different social groups. He gives an example of the right to vote for women to argue his point out. Here women were taken as women since they didn’t have the right to vote due to gender identity. However, gender identity may be reductive in other issues simplified to include social experiences. He uses an example of white and privileged women and middle-class (p.620. He states that white working-class and poor women have different experiences of race privilege in the United States than the white middle class and wealthy women. It states that the network of social disadvantage and benefit women have inherited due to historical transformation, struggle, subjugation and violence. Women’s experiences of social privilege or disadvantage can’t decline or increase since they belong to many social categories (p.64). There is no similarity in the way women receive sexism of social categories. However, there are valuable patterns in their experiences. Sexual orientation, religion, class, ethnicity and race contribute to the operation of sexism and the way women experience it.  For example, African Americans have faced social injustice for long, and women have been denied equal rights and equal access to social goods. However, this doesn’t mean that black women are doubly oppressed since they occupy the intersection of African American and women (p.67).

Another idea presented in the chapter understands the invisibility of privilege. He gives an example of Cassandra who has the knowledge about barriers facing her as a biracial lesbian and a single mother. However, she has decided to avoid labels and group identity by forging her sense of identity and community via her friendship and faith. According to the author, Cassandra has resisted diversity since she is naïve or since she is willing to silence the disadvantaged group. For example, when Cassandra encounters census form, there is a feeling of misrepresentation by any decision she makes concerning race (p.64).

The third idea discussed in the chapter is building trust to ensure individuals can start to examine their social experiences without feeling like they are being positioned at the outset in an unfamiliar of unfair manner (pg. 67).  There are differences between economic forces, religious, cultural, political and white forces. If we build trust, it is easier to have an intersectional identity and free women from the burden of having to speak for a whole group. This way, people can create a chance for the complexity of a woman’s identity.  It can also be easier to identify and appreciate justified anger and therefore encourage participants in the discussions to operate to make the blame relax to prevent indiscriminate and oversimplified accusations of bias against individuals in the discussion.

Create 2 original questions over the readings.

Which are the two skills of intellectual empathy according to Linker?

An intersectional analysis of social identity and attention of power and privilege can create more inclusive and effective diversity initiatives, True or False?

Drawing on what you learned from the readings on RAT #3, write down one thing everyone should know either about the racialization of global labor or the intersectionality of identity

Although I have learned many things about the intersectionality of identity, the one I would like to put down is that when focusing on social justice and diversity initiatives, it is better to start with an intersectional account of social identity.  This is because intersectional framework like social justice and diversity, it can develop a chance to develop trust for people to evaluate their social experiences without the feeling that they are being put at the outset in unfamiliar and unfair means.

In one paragraph, briefly describe how you can use what you have learned in class so far in your life.

Since I have learned how potentially transformative conversations break down, I am now aware of how to repair them. I am now capable of including people in discussions about diversity in an effective way. In my life, I will be able to see disadvantage and privilege as more contextual instead of addictive (p.62). It is also easier for me to talk about the intersectionality of identity with parents and friends and help them understand the idea. It will benefit society in general.