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Age, Race, And Sex: Women Redefining Difference By Audre Lorde

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Within the essay, “Age, Race, Class and Sex: Women Redefining Difference”, Audre Lorde discusses the systematic oppression and hierarchical structure imposed on Black people, third-world people, and working-class people. She succinctly mentions how the power dynamic rests mainly on white and heterosexual males, and that they evade responsibilities in order to maintain such structures. They also misname and refuse to recognize such differences in race, class, gender, and sexuality, therefore persisting racial erasure. In conjunction to her essay, Cherrie L. Moraga analyzes the alienation in class and culture in her article, “La Guera”. Throughout this article, she sees the intersectionality between sexuality and race, and utilizes her mother’s

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