Patricia Hill Collins refers to race, class, gender, etc. as “interlocking structures of oppression.” Implied in that statement is that while some are oppressed and discriminated against on the basis of one or more of these categories of identity, others continue to be be privileged, based on their own categories of identity. Citing peer reviewed sociological research on the subject, define privilege (on the basis of categories of identity) and discuss how privilege operates in peoples’ daily lives.

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