Hello classmates and Professor …I think this week’s reading did help further my understanding of identity politics. THE power of identity politics explains why black women have to have their own political group I believe for example the Combahee River Collective. The Collective feel like white feminist movement and many other civil rights movements were not addressing their particular needs as Black women or even Black lesbians. So, it explains the importance of black femist groups strictly supporting themselves. Interlocking oppression explains how differences amongst peoples (sexual orientation, class, race, age, etc.) creates oppression for black women.
The second story Too Latina to Be Black, Too Black to Be Latina shows a good example of discrimination within your own people. Aleichia Williams the author has a darker complexion then most of the Hispanic people in her school. In her school there is a little gang war going on between the black people and Hispanic. She is not really picking a side, she is neutral. I like how she understands she is black and Hispanic and just because her skin isn’t as light as all the other Spanish girls she is still just as Hispanic and isn’t ashamed to be brown skin. To me it sets the Spanish and black people behind so much to have a gang war against each other. In general, we are supposed to find ways to work together and make things better for one another and learn new things.
Something that would be interesting to talk about are gender studies on sports like in the Olympics, NBA , or soccer. What do women dominate the most in as a sport … why do transgender men compete with women in sports sometimes. I recognize in some sports mix teams are okay like tennis. A man and women can team up to defeat another mixed team. Was things always fair in sports for women? Is Soft ball the women’s version of baseball? Do women get the same amount of respect in the WNBA than men? Are they taken care of as much as the men in the NBA. Every year there is a NBA finals why don’t we hear about the WNBA finals.
Hi Mamadou!
I seriously think women in sports are severely underrepresented. There are also a lot of rules regarding whether trans women should be able to partake in women’s tournaments. Your questions are really intriguing and I hope by the end of the semester we can find some answers.
I think women in sports is a really interesting topic to talk about, especially because from my perspective it’s not something I would’ve thought of or even that comes to mind unless I see some similar issue pop up in the news around the olympics season. It’s so dystopian to even think back that there was a certain point in history where women weren’t allowed to be on sports teams, they had to ‘prove’ themselves first for society to accept them an adapt. Even the fact that some sports are deemed as ‘women’s sports’ or for girls is so bizarre to me.