Intersectionality is the concept of how different circumstances based on race, class, gender and others happen all the time and how everyone should be aware of the actions upon those groups of people. It’s important to see how different forms of oppression interlock because there are ways that groups of people are targeted for their appearance or identities in which they are strung along through legal systems to have the ultimate outcome against them. An example would be that federal charges on people cause them to not be able to vote in America. Because rights were so recently given to the black community, it is often noted that simple charges are turned into something federal, and in turn, making them incapable to legally vote. That is what Collin’s suggests by race, as an example, being more salient than others because race seems to be the most outstanding difference of why some people get treated the way they do and then on top of that is class and gender that need to be accounted for. The three dimensions of oppression that Collin’s identifies are institutional, symbolic, and the individual. The institutional aspect of it is no matter what the race, class or gender, there will always be a group of people comprised of individual sub groups (similar in race, class, and gender) who are awarded or deprived of certain rights. The symbolic aspect pertains to how people see the characteristics of groups of people. Collin’s uses gender (Male and Female) and automatically the results of a survey proved that most people, when comparing characteristics of Male and Females.
