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It's All In the Family: Intersections of Gender, Race, and Nation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Patricia Hill Collins
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Abstract

Intersectionality has attracted substantial scholarly attention in the 1990s. Rather than examining gender, race, class, and nation as distinctive social hierarchies, intersectionality examines how they mutually construct one another. I explore how the traditional family ideal functions as a privileged exemplar of intersectionality in the United States. Each of its six dimensions demonstrates specific connections between family as a gendered system of social organization, racial ideas and practices, and constructions of U.S. national identity.

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Research Article
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Hypatia , Volume 13 , Issue 3: Special Issue: Border Crossings: Multiculturalism and Postcolonial Challenges, Part 2 , Summer 1998 , pp. 62 - 82
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Copyright © 1998 by Hypatia, Inc.

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