Race, Class, and Gender

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In Anderson and Collins’, chapter on “Why race, class, and gender still maters” encourage readers to think about the world in their framework of race, class, and gender. They argued that even though society has change and there is a wide range of diversity; race, class and gender still matters. Anderson and Collins stated, “Race, class, and gender matter because they remain the foundation for system of power and inequality that, despite our nation’s diversity, continue to be among the most significant social facts of peoples lives.” (Anderson and Collins, 2010) When I was a little girl, I never knew that people were classified in to groups such as race, class, gender. I knew there were people that had a different color of skin than my color of skin. I knew that there were rich people and poor people, and that there were girls and boys. I saw everyone as being human beings, as being the same and not classified as something. As I was growing up, I started to see the differences in classifications in groups. It was not because I just woke up knowing that there were different classifications, but because I was taught about them in school and society. Anderson and Collins stated, “Race, class and gender shape the experiences of all people in the United States. (2010) This means that experiences that we have gone through in life are formed from a race, class, and gender view.

Being a low-income Hispanic person, I have had a bad experience when shopping in a predominately-white shopping center. I remember a time my aunts and I went to buy clothes at a shopping center in Utah. When we were at a store looking at the clothes we noticed that staff from the store was following us like if we were going to rob something. When ...

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... (2007) This case clearly demonstrated that there is no equality in the sentencing of female offenders and that women are being sentence more harshly than males.

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Anderson, M.L., & Collins P.H. (2010). Race, Class, & Gender: An Anthology. Why Race, Class, and Gender Still Matter. 8th Edition.

Belknap, J. (2007). The invisible women. 3rd ed. Belmont, CA: Thomson Higher Education.

McIntosh, P. (1988). White Privilege, Color, and Crime. Roxbury Publishing Company, Los Angeles, CA

Renzetti, C. (1999). The challenge to Feminism posed by Women’s use of violence in intimate relationships.

Tavris, C. (1992). The Mismeasure of Woman: Why Women Are Not the Better Sex, Inferior or Opposite Sex. The 70-kilogram man and the pregnant person. Simon & Schuster.

Tellis, K. Handout. California State University of los Angeles, CA, February 11, 2014.

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