What’s on the Intersectionality poster
A definition and 6 facts worth remembering.
The claim that positions such as race, gender and class interact to produce experiences that analysing each category separately cannot capture.
- Crenshaw, 1989, from anti-discrimination law.
- A claim could fail as neither race nor sex alone.
- Effects can combine, not simply stack up.
- Groups at the intersection become statistically invisible.
- Roots in Black feminist thought, not new in 1989.
- Now used far beyond its legal origin.
- Coined — Crenshaw, 1989
- Origin — employment law
- DeGraffenreid v. General Motors: the firm hired white women and Black men, so neither…
Educational reference. Testing interaction effects statistically is demanding: cell sizes shrink fast as categories multiply.
Questions about the Intersectionality poster
- What’s on the Intersectionality poster?
- A definition and 6 facts worth remembering. The claim that positions such as race, gender and class interact to produce experiences that analysing each category separately cannot capture. Crenshaw, 1989, from anti-discrimination law.; A claim could fail as neither race nor sex alone.; Effects can combine, not simply stack up.; Groups at the intersection become statistically invisible.; Roots in Black feminist thought, not new in 1989.; Now used far beyond its legal origin.; Coined — Crenshaw, 1989; Origin — employment law; DeGraffenreid v. General Motors: the firm hired white women and Black men, so neither…. Educational reference. Testing interaction effects statistically is demanding: cell sizes shrink fast as categories multiply.
- Who is the Intersectionality poster for?
- Intersectionality belongs to the Sociology section rather than to a school year, because law & society is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning stratification & inequality can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Intersectionality poster?
- When a category-by-category analysis misses the group at the intersection. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Intersectionality belongs on the wall where that law & society work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Intersectionality?
- Class Schemes, Cultural Capital at Work and Audit & Correspondence Tests sit alongside Intersectionality in the Sociology section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Class SchemesCultural Capital at WorkAudit & Correspondence Tests
- Is the Intersectionality poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Intersectionality downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Sociology section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Intersectionality poster print at?
- Intersectionality is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Intersectionality loses nothing.Printing guide
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