What is the Matrix of Domination?
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What is the matrix of domination?
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The matrix of domination is a paradigm that explains issues of oppression that deal with race, class, and gender. Which though recognized as different social classifications are all interconnected. Other forms of classification such as religion, or age, or sexual orientation apply to this theory as well.
As the term implies, there are different ways one might experience domination or power when facing challenges in which one obstacle such as race may overlap with other features. For example, things such as age, sex, and race can affect an individual in extremely different ways based on varying geography, socioeconomic status, or even just simply throughout time.
This Ask the Expert is an edited excerpt from the webinar, It Takes All of Us: Social Justice and Anti-Racism in Clinical Practice, presented by Brittany Nwachuku, EdD, LCSW, LISW, OSW-C.
Brittany Nwachuku
EdD, LCSW, LISW, OSW-C
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