A Student Primer on Intersectionality: Not Just A Buzzword

This book: ● lays out the objectives of WS 166, Gender, Race, and Class, taught in the Women’s and Gender Studies Department, Pace University, New York City campus; ● provides a structure for any course addressing intersectionality, feminism, and oppression; ● describes the framework of intersectionality, which examines societal issues by analyzing the interlocking systems of oppression that shape people’s lives; ● argues for a transnational application of intersectionality that also centers U.S. Black feminists’ contributions to understanding oppression; ● includes journal articles, TED Talks, and class exercises that are generally accessible for most students or interested readers without previous exposure to these topics. We designed this book to illustrate that intersectionality is a powerful tool for learning about and addressing injustice and inequity. When we analyze the world using an intersectionality framework, we learn about people’s lives and experiences in ways that we may never have considered, or wanted to consider. And the mere act of examining multiple systems of oppression is not enough, either, as the point of understanding oppression is to end it in all forms. As you read, be thankful for the discomfort, anger, and compassion that may arise; learning about oppression is never easy, but it is a worthwhile and meaningful task

Religion, conflict, and politics: an analysis of Gramsci's concept of subaltern in Kenya

Kenya as a heterogeneous society has always faced the problem of ethnicity. Religio-ethnic political competition and mobilization of sources have become the defining aspects of electoral politics in Africa. In Kenya, religion, politics, cash, and ethnicity are frequently inseparable. This dissertation analyses the changing roles of mainline churches in public life by examining the perceived loss of the clergy's prophetic voice in mainline church buildings and the emergence of different voices in the context of increasing ethnicity and non-secular pluralism in a multicultural space examined. Using Gramsci's concept of hegemony and subalternity, the dissertation questions the politics of ethnic reconciliation in Kenya to provide options for ethnic concord that have been either misunderstood or left out by the elites. Using Gramsci’s thinking of hegemony and subalternity, the dissertation will first of all study the role of civil society in legitimizing and resisting state hegemony and secondly examine the socio-political underpinnings of counter-hegemonic politics in post-2007 Kenya.Religious Studies and ArabicM.A. (Religious Studies