Getting Real About Inequality

"But Aren't Some Groups Actually More Oppressed Than Others?": How and Why Intersectionality Matters - Cherise A. Harris and Stephanie M. McClure "A Family is Two Parents, Their Children, and the White Picket Fence": The Impact of Invisible Intersections on How We Talk About "The Family" - Stephanie Medley-Rath "School Choice Ensures Kids Get the Best Education": The Realities of Charter and Magnet Schools for Children in the Intersections - Tomeka Davis and Dionne Parris "Maybe Some People Shouldn't Be Parents": The Hidden Inequalities of the Child Welfare System - Cherise A. Harris "Why Should We Have to Pay for Anchor Babies and Welfare Queens?": How Political Rhetoric Influences Social Policy Toward Black and Latina Women - Carly Hayden Foster "But Aren't the Poor Mostly Inner-City Blacks?": Understanding Poverty from an Intersectional Perspective - James M. Thomas, Paige Overmyer, and Stephanie M. McClure "Everyone Gets the Same 24 Hours a Day": An Intersectional Approach to Understanding the Time and Life Lost For Black Men and Boys - David C. Turner III, Uriel Serrano, and Freeden Blume Ouer "The Police Are Here to Protect Us": The Role of Race and Gender in the Construction of Law Enforcement - Jennifer Carlson "Unwanted Pregnancies are Completely Preventable": Understanding Reproductive Freedom in the Context of the Intersections - Ocqua Gerlyn Murrell "Since We All Breathe the Same Air, The Environment Affects Us All in the Same Way": An Intersectional View of the Impact of Environmental Toxins - Julia A. Flagg "Lizzo Should Really Be Embarrassed to Show that Much of Her Body": Applying an Intersectional Lens to the Scrutiny of Black Women's Bodies - Sabrina Strings "If Only He Looked More Like a Woman": How the Intersections Affect the Experiences of and Attitudes Toward Transgender People - Kylan Mattias de Vries and Carey Jean Sojka "Muslim Women Covering Themselves is Oppressive": Hijabs, Burkas, and Niquabs Through an Intersectional Lens - Afshan Jafar "I Keep 'Em Around Just in Case": Understanding Gun Ownership in the United States from an Intersectional Perspective - Levi Gahman "I'm a Feminist, So That Means I Am for ALL Women": The Role of Intersectionality in "Sisterhood" - Andrea N. Baldwin "Why is There a Black Twitter and a Gay Twitter?" The Role Social Media Play in Making Categories of Difference Visible - Latoya Lee "I Just Think Asian Men Aren't Sexy!": Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality, and the Devaluing of Asian Men - Karen Wu "When I Think of Disability I Think of a White Guy in a Wheelchair": The Social Construction of Disability and its Intersections with Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality - Jennifer Domino Rudolph "Why Do White Women Vote Against Their Own Interests?": Unpacking Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the 2016 Presidential Election - Dara Z. Strolovitch, Janelle S. Wong, and Andrew Proctor "Things Will Get Better Over Time. Besides, What Can I Do?": Coalition-Building Across Categories of Difference - Cherise A. Harris, Andrea N. Baldwin, and Stephanie M. McClure