In this episode, we talked to Elisabeth Kaneza who is a legal and political scholar and a community outreach officer at the German Center for Integration and Migration (DeZiM) in Berlin, Germany.
PAST (
00:02:20): Elisabeth emphasizes the importance of equal rights and chances for all, the impact of racial discrimination that require structural solutions. She also describes her journey into academia.
PRESENT (
00:09:35): We discuss an article by Kimberlé Crenshaw (1989) about equality in law, the intersections of race and sex. This article has been groundbreaking in many ways. Importantly, it has established that scientific theories insufficiently capture experiences of intersecting identities, such as being a woman of color, and related discrimination experiences.
FUTURE (
00:26:40): Elisabeth shares encouraging thoughts to empower emerging scholars of color. She highlights that their voices and work are highly needed. Therefore, she demands for structural support, research, and actions for racial equality.
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FULL REFERENCES OF THIS EPISODE:
*Crenshaw, K. (1989). Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Anti‐Discrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Anti‐Racist Politics. In
The University of Chicago Legal Forum, 140(
1), 139–167.
Esposito, J., & Evans-Winters, V. (2021). Introduction to intersectional qualitative research. SAGE Publications Inc.
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Join a group of six women in social sciences in their aim to increase visibility of inspiring social scientists and of cutting-edge research on ethnic, cultural, and migration-related diversity. Each episode, two hosts invite one outstanding scientist to discuss their PAST (personal path into academia), the PRESENT (research article or book chapter that has recently inspired them), and the FUTURE (recent developments and paradigm shifts in academia and social sciences).
For more information on the episode, guest, and included references, please visit https://www.researchingdiversity.com.
You can also follow us on Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Facebook.
We want to thank Minor Revisions for the music, Lotte Gottschewski-Kooijman for the logo design, Max Kersten for post production, and zeythehuman for their artwork. Stay tuned and talk soon!