Race, Class, and Gender in Theory, Policy, and Practice

Name: Instructor: Course: Date: Reading Response Title Emerging intersections: Race, Class, and Gender in Theory, Policy, and Practice Editors Bonnie Thornton Dill and Ruth Enid Zambrana Article summary This is an article that brings to the audience a new way of evaluating about inequality with a bias on the application of intersectionality (Dill, and Zambrana). By reevaluating how factors such as sexuality, age, gender, physical abilities, race and ethnicity, the author challenge the conventional and traditional ways of looking at element of inequalities in the society with bias to America (Dill, and Zambrana). Thesis The elements of discrimination cannot be evaluated on a single factor such as race of gender, rather it is a multitude of factors that interact with one another to produce the results of inequality in the society (Dill, and Zambrana). Terms and concepts Intersectionality is a concept that is associated with the way that gender, race, class and ethnicity overlap with one another when it comes to how people are discriminated in the society. Personality and audience The authors are critical thinkers which has to their invaluable information in the shift to the way that the audience think about inequality and discrimination in the society (Dill, and Zambrana). This makes the audience scholars as this is a rather informative and research oriented approach on the topic. It is a concept that can be considered as a change in the traditional approaches of looking at inequality. Most of the studies in the past as the authors have noted have been tied to looking at inequality and discrimination along singular factor trends (Dill, and Zambrana). For example, there is the element of race between the whites and the blacks, is constantly looked at ...