Identity is multiplicative rather than additive for women of color

Evidence

In addition to rejecting essentialism within feminism, Critical Race feminists reject CRT’s essentialization of all minorities. As the experiences of males may differ significantly from females, we are thus a feminist intervention within CRT, Our antiessentialist premise is that identity is not additive. In other words, black women are not white women plus color, or black men plus gender. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1163

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• DEFINE: Defines the antiessentialist premise of Critical Race Feminism: identity is not additive.

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• Identity is not additive for black women (similarity 0.95)
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• Everyone holds multiple identities with relative privilege or discrimination (similarity 0.82)
• Critical race feminism is a race intervention against feminism’s essentializing of women (similarity 0.81)
• Women of color hold some identities that relatively privilege them (similarity 0.80)
• Critical Race Feminism centers women of color facing simultaneous race and gender oppression (similarity 0.79)
• Women of color face simultaneous oppression based on race and gender (similarity 0.78)