Explain why it is important to examine race, class, and gender in relation to each other in order to understand families. Include 1 historical example provided in Baca Zinn that demonstrate the intersection of these three domains.

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What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

May include the following:
a. The privileges of some people depend on the oppression of others.
b. Studying race, class, and gender simultaneously allow us to grok the benefit that white women derive from their race, while still understanding how they are impacted by gender hierarchies.
c. People may benefit from the protection and privilege of their race, class, or gender, while also facing oppression in a different area.
d. White women have historically hired women of color as domestic workers, allowing white women to engage in formal work such as Southern textile mills and factories.
e. In the United States in the 1800s, white women were oppressed by the male-dominated society to stay in the home to take care of the family, while women of colored were economically forced into working outside of the home, disallowing them from protecting family life.