While shopping for clothes, a black woman is followed around the store by a white sales associate. frustrated, she leaves the store and decides to go home. her husband, on seeing her enter the house, asks: “what’s for dinner?” what concept could we as sociologists use to understand her experiences, both in the store and at home?
The answer to this question is the concept of Intersectionality. Intersectionality is a concept that describes the system of oppression such as racism, homophobia, race, gender, age, etc. and that these are interconnected. The legal scholar Kimberle Crenshaw made this concept and this concept was used in studying critical theories that discussed sytematic oppresions.
