Assignment task:
YouTube Video: Megan Thee Stallion: Why I Speak Up for Black Women | NYT Opinion
Watch video above then answer the following questions
Question 1: What roles do gender and race have on the oppression of Black women?
Discuss here the social constructs of race and gender and how its corresponding systems of racism and patriarchy affect Black women in particular ways that are rooted in slavery and have survived in the contemporary moment
Use some of the examples of stereotypes and misogynoir given by Megan Thee Stallion in the video above
Question 2: How did the feminist movement further exclude Black women due to their race?
Discuss the four waves of the United States' feminist movement and point out specific ways in which the intersections of womanhood and Blackness have found themselves excluded by the majority-white mainstream figures and organizations of the movement
Question 3: Why is the concept of intersectionality so important to Black women, Black feminism, and the future of feminism at large?
For this question, define Kimberlé Crenshaw's concept of intersectionality and how it has become much more central to the activism and resistance of Black feminists as the feminist movement opens itself up for more diverse issues and populations