“…Later, Crocker and Major () suggested that, in addition to Black Americans, non‐Black racial minorities, women, older adults, sexual minorities, and individuals with a history of mental illness (among members of other oppressed groups), despite facing varying sources of stigmatization, are united by the task of navigating systems and structures that subjugate their personhood. Yet, both analyses stopped short of acknowledging the intersectional nature of social identities, which describes how the overlapping nature of identities influences lived experience (Cole, ; Sweetman, ; Warner, ; Warner & Shields, ). That is, a Black person is not only Black; that person also possesses gender, sexual orientation, and class identities, among many others, some of which may also be stigmatized and all of which modulate the experience of being Black in America (Warner, ).…”