MATRIX OF DOMINATION

(from Johnson’s “Capitalism, Class, and the Matrix of Domination”, pg. 51-52)
- the dynamics of gender and race that are so bound up with each other that it’s hard, if not impossible, to tell where one ends and one begins.
- It reveals how the different dimensions of privilege and domination are connected to one another: 1- to defend or reinforce another, 2- access to one form of privilege can affect access to others, 3- to serve as compensation for having access to another, and 4- subordinate groups often pitted against one another in ways that draws attention away from the system of privilege hurting them all.
- If someone scores a 4 then that must mean that they are white, male, disabled, and heterosexual. In a sense, 4 is the magic number and anything else that isn’t white, male, disabled, and heterosexual, won't receive a point.