GWN- A group that plays together stays together?

1.How does the framework of interlocking oppressions reframe issues of girl violence? How does this theoretical lens also challenge the saliency of class to explain the scenario between the groups of young women?

People are subjected to many forms of oppression. Whether it be race, gender, class or even age, these oppressions are not cut and dry, and people experience oppression in different amounts. The "framework of interlocking oppressions" factors strongly in determining who is the oppressor, and who is the oppressed. In the case of girl violence, all women, white and coloured, can be said to be oppressed by our patriarchal society. It is then difficult for white girls to also see themselves as oppressors in other situations. These frames of oppression also make it hard for society to see these girls as oppressors, as they're generally viewed as victims. We then come to the conclusions that there is no oppression, or that it is not the white girls' fault, as they are victims, and how can a victim victimize someone else?
Also, the different frameworks of oppression that come in to play when dealing with girl violence make it difficult to point out one area of oppression as the cause of problems. As Charania writes, "...systems of oppression come into existence in and through one another so that class exploitation could not be accomplished without gender and racial hierarchies." (213) That schools can ignore racial oppression and focus solely on the class divisions is irresponsible, and continues to lend to the idea of White society's disownership of racism.

2.What kind of anti-racist pedagogical interventions might emerge from a more critical reading of the incidents between these groups of young women?

If these instances of violence were seen as societally influenced, and less as individual misunderstandings, different approaches to intervention would emerge. The group of white students need to understand their role, unwittingly or not, as oppressors, and their power and privilege they hold. Only once their whiteness is shown to them would they be able to begin to understand the differences in their experiences compared to their black, working-class peers. Schools seem to be aimed at instilling society's ideas of White privilege in young students, which makes the acknowledgment of whiteness in educational settings that much more important.