Utilizing Intersectionality to Engage Dialogue in Higher Education 1

• In Event: 60.085 - Poster Session 11
  In Poster Session: 60.085-4 - Critical Education in the Classroom and Beyond

Abstract

Discussions of social identity intersections are critical in examining systems of privilege and oppression and engaging social justice dialogue throughout academia. This paper presents an adapted model of Intersections of Identities (Taylor, 2011) that can be utilized in the facilitation of social justice training programs with faculty, staff, students, and community members to advance understandings of our multiple, intersecting social identities.
The Intersections of Identities model presents the concept of intersectionality as a tangible, practical catalyst for self-reflection and dialogue. The model is useful in establishing the training foundation before discussing context and salience of identities, historical and current systems of oppression, power and privilege, and participants’ individual and collective roles in perpetuating and interrupting those systems.

Authors

• Betty Jeanne Taylor, The University of Texas - Austin

• Claudia García-Louis, University of Texas at Austin

• Ryan Miller, University of North Carolina - Charlotte