ABSTRACT

The Routledge International Handbook of Race, Class, and Gender chronicles the development, growth, history, impact, and future direction of race, gender, and class studies from a multidisciplinary perspective. The research in this subfield has been wide-ranging, including works in sociology, gender studies, anthropology, political science, social policy, history, and public health. As a result, the interdisciplinary nature of race, gender, and class and its ability to reach a large audience has been part of its appeal. The Handbook provides clear and informative essays by experts from a variety of disciplines, addressing the diverse and broad-based impact of race, gender, and class studies.

The Handbook is aimed at undergraduate and graduate students who are looking for a basic history, overview of key themes, and future directions for the study of the intersection of race, class, and gender. Scholars new to the area will also find the Handbook’s approach useful. The areas covered and the accompanying references will provide readers with extensive opportunities to engage in future research in the area.

part I|17 pages

Theorizing race, class, and gender studies

chapter 1|7 pages

Conceptualizing intersectionality in superordination

Masculinities, whitenesses, and dominant classes

chapter 2|8 pages

Unpacking the intersections of identity and politics and the politics of studying identity

A black feminist theoretical and epistemological tool kit

part II|40 pages

Conversations on race, class, and gender

chapter 3|8 pages

Difficult conversations

Race, class and gender in White Australia

chapter 4|15 pages

Making visible the invisible

Cultural scripts that inform relationships among African American women

chapter 5|15 pages

Intersections in everyday conversations

Racetalk, classtalk, and gendertalk in the workplace

part IV|41 pages

Race, class, gender, and sexualities

chapter 9|12 pages

Sex as subversion

The ethnosexual protestor and the ethnosexual defender

chapter 10|11 pages

Herbivore masculinity

Opposition or accommodation to hegemonic masculinity?

chapter 11|16 pages

The (pink) elephant in the room

The structure and experience of race and violence in the lives of transgender prisoners in California

part V|36 pages

Race, class, gender, and education

chapter 12|14 pages

The role of ethnicity, class, and gender in social capital formation

A case study of supportive peer networks among Somali working-class immigrant adolescents

chapter 13|8 pages

Race, class, gender, and online courses in the academy

New questions for the twenty-first century

part VI|23 pages

Race, class, gender, and work

chapter 15|11 pages

The empirical challenge of intersectionality

Understanding race, class, and gender through a study of occupations

chapter 16|10 pages

Professional ghettoization

The clustering of workers at the intersections of gender, race, (and class)

part VII|25 pages

Cultural contexts and identity

chapter 17|13 pages

Realities and fluidity of race, class, and gender

Different places, times, and contexts

chapter 18|10 pages

“We're 80 percent more patriotic”

Atlanta's Muslim South Asian Americans and cultural citizenship

part VIII|37 pages

Conclusion

chapter 20|9 pages

Gender, caste, and class

Structural violence in India

chapter 21|19 pages

A decade of little change

Gender, race and ethnicity in state legislatures, 2003–2012