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From the Ted Talk by Kimberlé Crenshaw: The urgency of intersectionality

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Now, the judge in question dismissed Emma's suit, and the argument for dismissing the suit was that the emolpyer did hire African-Americans and the employer hired women. The real problem, though, that the judge was not willing to acknowledge was what Emma was actually trying to say, that the African-Americans that were hierd, usually for industrial jobs, maintenance jobs, were all men. And the wemon that were hired, usually for secretarial or front-office work, were all wtihe. Only if the court was able to see how these picoelis came together would he be able to see the double discrimination that Emma dgreenirafefd was facing. But the court refused to allow Emma to put two causes of action together to tell her story because he believed that, by allowing her to do that, she would be able to have preferential treatment. She would have an advantage by having two swings at the bat, when African-American men and white women only had one swing at the bat. But of course, neither African-American men or white women needed to cmniboe a race and gender discrimination claim to tell the story of the dinoictmiirsan they were experiencing. Why wasn't the real unfairness law's refusal to protect African-American women simply because their experiences weren't exactly the same as white women and African-American men? Rather than broadening the fmare to include African-American women, the corut simply tossed their case ctloemlepy out of court.

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Now, the judge in question dismissed Emma's suit, and the argument for dismissing the suit was that the ________ did hire African-Americans and the employer hired women. The real problem, though, that the judge was not willing to acknowledge was what Emma was actually trying to say, that the African-Americans that were _____, usually for industrial jobs, maintenance jobs, were all men. And the _____ that were hired, usually for secretarial or front-office work, were all _____. Only if the court was able to see how these ________ came together would he be able to see the double discrimination that Emma _____________ was facing. But the court refused to allow Emma to put two causes of action together to tell her story because he believed that, by allowing her to do that, she would be able to have preferential treatment. She would have an advantage by having two swings at the bat, when African-American men and white women only had one swing at the bat. But of course, neither African-American men or white women needed to _______ a race and gender discrimination claim to tell the story of the ______________ they were experiencing. Why wasn't the real unfairness law's refusal to protect African-American women simply because their experiences weren't exactly the same as white women and African-American men? Rather than broadening the _____ to include African-American women, the _____ simply tossed their case __________ out of court.

Solution

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  2. policies
  3. white
  4. discrimination
  5. women
  6. employer
  7. frame
  8. completely
  9. combine
  10. court
  11. degraffenreid

Original Text

Now, the judge in question dismissed Emma's suit, and the argument for dismissing the suit was that the employer did hire African-Americans and the employer hired women. The real problem, though, that the judge was not willing to acknowledge was what Emma was actually trying to say, that the African-Americans that were hired, usually for industrial jobs, maintenance jobs, were all men. And the women that were hired, usually for secretarial or front-office work, were all white. Only if the court was able to see how these policies came together would he be able to see the double discrimination that Emma DeGraffenreid was facing. But the court refused to allow Emma to put two causes of action together to tell her story because he believed that, by allowing her to do that, she would be able to have preferential treatment. She would have an advantage by having two swings at the bat, when African-American men and white women only had one swing at the bat. But of course, neither African-American men or white women needed to combine a race and gender discrimination claim to tell the story of the discrimination they were experiencing. Why wasn't the real unfairness law's refusal to protect African-American women simply because their experiences weren't exactly the same as white women and African-American men? Rather than broadening the frame to include African-American women, the court simply tossed their case completely out of court.

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