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Collins' Concept of the "Matrix of Domination"

Race, gender and class inequalities are inescapable in everyday life whether it is through the economy, the division of household labor or health care. Collins (1998) explains her concept for the "matrix of domination" explaining how all the parts are interrelated and work like a system. She portrays the idea that race, sex, and class are all topics that work together in the theory of oppression. We as individuals often view our situation in the negative one sided light instead of looking at it like we are lucky compared to some and how if we worked together we could help each other.
This idea is best said in a quoted from Collins (1998:32) "…we typically fail to see how our thoughts and actions uphold someone else's subordination. Thus white feminist routinely point with confidence to their oppression as women but resist seeing how much their white skin privileges them." The problem Collins says is that then African......

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