The connected nature of various social identities leading to overlapping systems of discrimination.

• A. Inclusion
• B. Intersectionality
• C. Middlemen
• D. Miscegenation

Answer: (B)

Intersectionality explains how multiple social identities—like race, gender, class, and sexuality—are interconnected and shape the particular ways people experience discrimination. It emphasizes that oppression isn’t just a simple sum of separate biases; the overlap of identities creates unique, compounded experiences of prejudice and barriers. For example, the discrimination faced by someone who is both a racial minority and a woman can be different in kind and intensity from discrimination tied to either identity alone, because the two forms of oppression reinforce each other.

Inclusion focuses on bringing diverse people into spaces, but it doesn’t capture how overlapping identities produce intersecting systems of oppression. The other options don’t address how overlapping identities drive unique discrimination patterns, so they aren’t a good fit here.