The Social Psychology of Deviance: Toward a Reconciliation With Social Structure
Annual Review of SociologyPublished 1 August 1982
Anthony R. Harris, Gary D. Hill
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The term intersectionality references the critical insight that race, class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, nation, ability, and age operate not as unitary, mutually exclusive entities, but rather as reciprocally constructing phenomena. Despite this ...Read More
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