Summary Of 'Multiple Consciousness' By Deborah King
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Deborah King’s work entitled, “Multiple Jeopardy, Multiple Consciousness: The Context of a Black Feminist Ideology,” explores how Black women are susceptible to double the oppression that White men experience. King discusses how race, ethnicity, social class, gender, nativity and sexuality all influence how race ethnicities are experienced. King points out that Black women are faced with both racism and sexism. Not only are Black women oppressed due to their gender for being part of the female minority, but are also oppressed due to their race as African American is a minority. Due to their double oppression of racism + sexism would called double jeopardy. However, King sees a flaw in the model because she feels society doe not experience sexism the same way. King suggests by making the model racism X sexism represents Black women’s oppression more accurately because this suggests that racism and sexism changes the…show more content… As discussed in Royster’s ethnography entitled “Race and the Invisible Hand: How White Networks Exclude Black Men from Blue-Collar Jobs,” racism can be prevalent within the work force. Racial inequality is explained by the market approach referred to as the invisible hand, as labor market competition leaves Blacks in lower level jobs while Whites are of greater demand for higher-level, higher paying jobs. Of the Black men Royster interviewed, majority were working at low paying jobs, leaving these men and their family poor and of low class. Of the White men interviewed, majority had an easier time earning a job and more than less were in positions of higher scale pay. The inequality continues due to poorer community experiencing greater racial disparity than those of middle class category. Using King’s model, for these men their oppression would look likes this, racism X social class. King’s model can be applied to any individual experiencing multiple