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https://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/8/4/1116867/-Oppression-and-Intersectionality Being oppressed is a struggle that many groups in society face on a daily basis, whether it be racial discrimination because one is Latino or being paid only 70% of what a man makes. Yet, oppression becomes even greater and more complex when one includes intersectionality which is how social, economic, and other categories overlap and intersect in a greater framework of oppression. Rather than discussing this matter from an ‘objective’ standpoint and using examples which one can easily distance themselves from, I will examine oppression and intersectionality using actual people. I am a gay black man. At first glance, one might think that while I am oppressed due to my sexuality, that I benefit from male privilege because the United States is a patriarchal society. However, this is where intersectionality comes into play. Ordinarily, in a patriarchal society all males benefit from male privilege, ye...

(From:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Boas) Franz Uri Boas  ( / ˈ b o ʊ æ z / ; German:  [ˈboːas] ; July 9, 1858 – December 21, 1942) [1]  was a German-American [2]  anthropologist and a pioneer of modern  anthropology  who has been called the "Father of American Anthropology". [3] [4]  His work is associated with the movement of  anthropological historicism . [5] Boas was one of the most prominent opponents of the then-popular ideologies of  scientific racism , the idea that  race  is a biological concept and that human behavior is best understood through the typology of biological characteristics. [7]  In a series of groundbreaking studies of skeletal anatomy he showed that cranial shape and size was highly malleable depending on environmental factors such as health and nutrition, in contrast to the claims by racial anthropologists of the day that held head shape to be a stable racial trait. Boas al...

Languages, Dialects, Pidgins and Creoles BARRY PENNOCK-SPECK Published:  10.08.2011,  Updated:  04.03.2017  One of the greatest differences between a language and a dialect 1  in most people’s minds is that the former is bigger than the latter both with regard to the area it covers and the people who speak it. In other words, languages are perceived to include several dialects. On this view, the English language would include the varieties spoken in Edinburgh, Newcastle, New York, Atlanta, Sydney, Wellington, Jamaica, etc. Language and Dialect When we use the term  the English language , what normally comes to mind is  Standard English . Standard languages are seen to have greater prestige than a dialect. Part of this prestige is due to the fact that they have a written code while a dialect does not. So when we talk about German, French, Norwegian, Chinese, Russian, etc. we are actually referring to the standard versions of these languages. ...

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