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What are the big ideas shaping our world?  This new series from the BBC World Service picks the best ideas from economics to psychology, neuroscience to philosophy, political science to anthropology, and makes them easy to digest.

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The Big Idea: Dimensions of discrimination

Dimensions of Discrimination

21/07/2018 GMT

Dimensions of discrimination

BBC World Service - The Big Idea, Dimensions of discrimination

Do black women face more prejudice than black men or white women?

Do black woman face more prejudice than black men or white women? Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw introduced her famous concept of ‘intersectionality’ to help address such questions.

Do black women face more prejudice than black men or white women? The legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw introduced a new way of thinking about disadvantage in society. She called it ‘intersectionality’. It attempts to analyze how different forms of marginalisation – race, class, gender and so on – overlap.   And it has been hugely influential on those academics and policy makers who deal with the nature and impact of discrimination. 

Presenter: David Edmonds

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