Zinn And Dill Analysis

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Women and men throughout time had their fair share of discrimination, but not to the extent of what happened to multiracial women and men. In “Multiracial Feminism” by Zinn and Dill, they talk about how gender is constructed by a range of interlocking inequalities. Patricia Hill Collins calls this a “Matrix of Domination”. The “Matrix of Domination is based on race, gender, sexuality, and class. The whole point of this matrix is that it all depends on where in the social structure; this applies to females and males. The Matrix is there to help account for the different ways women experiences themselves. (M.Zinn and B.Dill p.327) This is saying that everyone is different and has different experiences; women shouldn’t be treated in a way or be categorized where they have to be trying to fit that one look society has on women. One can be Asian, women, bi-sexual, and she is middle class; her experiences are going to be completely …show more content…
One example is salary gap, it is believed that colored women are more oppressed on salary, meaning average white women will end up making more than a colored women. So what society is basically doing is limiting women because on the color of her skin. In “Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror” explains how colored people were treated, lynching targeted majority of African Americans, this was called “racial terror lynching”. African American women would get lynched or assaulted, just because of them being a colored person. One example is when “Keith Bowen was lynched after he allegedly tried to enter a room where three white women were sitting” (EJI p17). White women fell into a difference matrix where they were treated completely different from the whole colored community. Being white was the standard and if one didn’t meet that standard, one was automatically different and