Intersections: Race, Class, and Gender

A group of people who all share inherited biological features not shared by other races that account for how they look and sometimes for their behavior, character, and cultural predispositions.

Fixed and unchanging properties that make something what it is.

The belief that all members of each race possess characteristics, abilities, or qualities specific to that race to distinguish it as superior or inferior to another race or races.

<p>Becoming marked by race is an action, something that happens to people.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>We use racial categories to our advantage but race is created by society.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Any group of people who set themselves apart and/or are set apart by others with whom they interact or co-exist on the basis of their perceptions or cultural differentiation and/or common ancestry.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The perception/representation of a person/group as alien from another (usually) more powerful group.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Preconceived and oversimplified idea of the characteristics which typify a person, situation, etc.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The social standing or class of an individual or group, often measured as a combination of education, income, and occupation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Pacific Islanders in the working class who barely ever get promoted to upper-level management.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Black single women living alone who are professional and represent approximately 20% of the Black middle class.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Racial profiling simply for existing.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Appearance of aloofness and superiority meant to convey pride, strength, control, and emotionlessness.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>'Illegal immigrants' from Latin America flood the US with the goal of reconquering the southwest to return to Mexico.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Measure of manhood based on inner strength, bravado and daring, leadership, and sexual prowess.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Very masculine, sexist, tough.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>More romantic, caring, more egalitarian.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Womanhood based on personal sacrifice, humble and modest, spiritual superiority, and domestic strength.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Sellout women, women who do not serve their husbands or their family.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Preconceived notions/opinions not based on reason or actual experience against a class of people.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Unequal treatment of a class of people.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Unequal treatment of a class of people not according to rules/laws.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Equal treatment of people according to a set of rules and procedures created to disadvantage one class versus another.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Current and past discrimination of prior generations.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Invisible package of unearned assets enjoyed by white people over all other races.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Political, educational, occupational, and religious institutions, along with the family, create and enforce expectations for how women and men should behave in all known societies.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Even when individuals are motivated to stretch the boundaries of gender, social structures often impede them.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A poem/short narrative about stereotypes that can be prevented.</p> Signup and view all the answers