Welcome to my autoethnography on the intersectionality of being black, being a woman, being a mother, and being considered lower class

This autoethnography is to bring awareness to the disparity women of color face in the workplace and at home. Black female, whether Haitian, Jamaican, African, or African American, are considered to be one of the most oppressed groups in the United States and across the world. I wish to show my finding through conventional research, interviews, participant observation and my personal experience to show this as accurate even in 2018. 

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What is Intersectionality

What is Autoetnography

Intersectionality is the over lapping of oppressions. It can be black/female, black/gay, it can also be more than two latino/female/lesbian/lower class/immigrant. More operational, intersectionality  a term coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw (1989; 1991), rearticulated concerns about black female marginality in mainstream theorizing that were voiced in the scholarship of African American black feminists such as Angela Davis, Patricia Hill Collins and Audre Lorde (Mirza 2015) 

According to Carolyn Ellis, Tony E. Adams & Arthur P. Bochnerto an autoethnography is a research approach that uses personal experiences, participate observation, interviews, and conventional research methods in order to analyze and understand cultural experiences. It does not focus on canonical research instead uses a unique method of putting the observer on the same level and in the same culture as the observed so he/she is not observing ethnocentrically but as a direct participant.

I Am A Woman Phenomenally,
Phenomenal Woman
That's Me
-Maya Angelou