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Week 14 · Module overview

Week 14 — Intersections: Gender, Class, Language, Religion, and Multiracial Identity

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Why this matters

A human-resources student writing a workplace dress policy and a nursing student reading a clinic intake form that lets people check more than one race both need to see whom a one-category rule misses.

In plain language

This chapter asks what happens when a person belongs to several categories at once, as nearly everyone does. You will put to work intersectionality (the idea that overlapping categories, such as race and sex, produce experiences that neither category alone describes) on gender, class, language, religion, and citizenship. You will read a 1967 Supreme Court case about marriage, a census option that lets you check more than one race, and a kind of unfairness called colorism (unequal treatment by skin tone, even inside one group). You will also go back to the lending table and to one woman's account from the course archive and read each of them through more than one lens. At the end you will be able to say, in one plain sentence, what a rule that reads one category at a time can miss.

  • Already covered: Week 2's intersectionality, Week 7's lending table, Week 13's federal categories.
  • This week: overlap, Loving, one or more races, colorism, language, class, E2.
  • How they connect: this week reads the places where those lines cross.
  • Where we're going next: Week 15, Movements, Solidarity, and the Course Synthesis.

Focus

What does a rule or a form miss when it reads one category at a time?

By the end of this module, you should be able to:

  • [ ] explain intersectionality as overlap, not addition
  • [ ] say what Loving v. Virginia (1967) struck down and whom it reaches
  • [ ] read the 2020 Multiracial count as mostly a measurement change
  • [ ] tell colorism apart from racism between groups and read E2 through several lenses

To-do

Plan your week

  1. Read Chapter 14 (about 35–45 minutes), then the lecture and slides.
  2. Work the lecture tutorial (60–90 minutes).
  3. Try the practice set (15–25 minutes).
  4. Do the workshop (about 90 minutes), the discussion, and the assignment, then the quiz.

This week's checkpoint: name what a one-category check would miss in one rule you know.

You've got this

Take it in order, and ask your instructor if a step snags.

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