The Masjid in contemporary Islamic Africa

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Apotsos, Michelle, author

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"The term "intersectionality" was first coined by jurist and critical race theorist Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw in 1989 as an approach to human identity and experience that recognizes that individua...

"The term "intersectionality" was first coined by jurist and critical race theorist Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw in 1989 as an approach to human identity and experience that recognizes that individuals are composed of multiple identities that are not mutually exclusive. Importantly, the combination of overlapping, combining, and intersecting identities that compose an individual in turn has the possibility of producing diverse, highly unique experiences of marginalization, disenfranchisement, and oppression. Thus, various modes of oppression, whether they be racism, sexism, xenophobia, etc. are not experienced as singular disenfranchising units, but as a broader interactive system of subjugation"--

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