ABSTRACT
A substantial body of literature argues for “intersectionality” or the recognition that group identities such as race and gender cannot be understood in isolation from one another. Intersectional perspectives argue that the meaning of gender differs across racial groups and the meaning of race differs for men and women. Intersectionality has made valuable contributions 944towards understanding the lives of minority women, who do not necessarily experience race in the same way as minority men or gender in the same way as white women (Browne and Misra 2003; McCall 2005). Yet few empirical studies on earnings inequality by race and gender have adopted this perspective (Brewer, Conrad and King 2002).
