Anthropology › Section I · Social inequalities › Topic I.3
Intersections of inequality
No one is only a race, only a gender or only a class. Intersectional analysis asks how these positions combine in real lives, and anthropologists extend the question to the global scale, tracing how colonial history and economic policy shape who can meet their basic needs.
In this topic
- Why one category is not enough
- Worked example: the gap single categories hide
- Lived, not added
- Sojourner syndrome and misogynoir
- Caste as an intersecting system
- Global inequality: colonialism and inherited wealth
- Neocolonialism and structural adjustment
- Structural violence
- Worked example: tracing structural violence in Haiti
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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