Class-Race-Gender: Sloganeering in Search of Meaning
In: Social justice: a journal of crime, conflict and world order, Band 20, S. 56-71
ISSN: 1043-1578, 0094-7571
A historical sketch of the class-race-gender construct considers its application & impact in the social sciences & criminology as variously expressed & embodied in current research. Existing social-structural relations of class, race, & gender have been targeted by movements for changing the status quo, whose activism has produced increased consciousness. The class-race-gender construct originated with 1960s black feminism, & was popularized by higher education curriculum-integration projects. After highlighting the construct's use in the 1980s feminist writings of June Jordan, Audre Lorde, & Minnie Bruce Pratt, an engaged approach to the interdependent & multiple relations of class, race, & gender is called for. J. Sadler