Oppression, unfortunately, has a significant place throughout America's history. From the beginning, we started out being oppressed, but as the years went by, we began to oppress others, like women, black people, and the poor. The United States of America believes in equality for all, but an intersectional analysis can highlight the contradiction between this statement and reality. Intersectional analysis is known as "an analytical mode that does not privilege one side of identification over another, but emphasizes the importance of race, class, gender, and sexuality as interwoven and mutually constitutive” (Hong ix-x). This analytical mode was an important contribution to the science of sociology on the part of black feminists discussed by Grace Hong in her book The Ruptures of American Capital. Using intersectional analysis, it is found that depending on the different variations of an individual's race, class, and gender, that individual will experience different levels of oppression from the oppressors, who are usually those who hold the seats of power. Oppression typically occurs in what Hong would call a “racialized state” (Hong viii) where the nation-state takes on a repressive role in “the form of policing and displacement of impoverished racialized communities” (xi). . Using intersectional analysis and raising awareness of the contradictions that exist in the country can help lead the people to change, in the direction promised to all men, the direction of equality. To demonstrate how intersectional analysis can be used in the real world, one can look at the world of Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained. The world of Django Unchained is full of racism, oppression and segregation and represents the embodiment of Hong's racism.... ... middle of paper ...... in the usual sense, such as how slaves are treated, but she is discriminated against by the value she actually has or appears to have. In the scene where she is first introduced, Candie screams "Where's my sister-in-law!?" and she runs out of the house. Candie talks about how beautiful and easy on the eyes she is, without even saying a word. Candie's sister stands there and smiles the whole time while she is presented to the entire crowd as an object of beauty. Lara, after being introduced, then adds nothing to the story and is ultimately killed. Due to the lack of any real addition to the plot, Terantino didn't need her to be part of the story at all. One could see Terantino's addition of her to the story as the view people had of women in a racialized state. They were considered simple objects of beauty.