Explorations of Diversity
Explorations of Diversity
Paper details:
Utilizing the resources from the text and additional readings. write a short paper exploring the meaning of what Patricia Hill C
calls the matrix of domination. Consider how identity politics (civil rights. feminism. the LGBT movement) could be considere
response to domination (forms of power evident in control. exclusion. and discrimination).
Resource
Watch the following for an inventive overview regarding the matrix of domination (It is a quite useful presentation set to Johr
Lennon’s “Imagine"): Sociology's Matrix of Domination in the US. (3:54)
For additional details. please refer to the Short Paper Rubric document in the Assignment Guidelines and Rubrics section c
course.
Textbook: The Matrix Reader. Essay 36. p. 336
Essay 36: “A Brief History of Working Women" by Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber and Gregg Lee Carter
Hill Collins. Patricia (1990) Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge. Consciousness. and the Politics of Empowerment. Boston.
Unwin. Hyman. Retrieved at:
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