gendered foundations of racial formation in the United States
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Kitch, Sally L.
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- WER 1A 2009
- Thesaurus
- intersectionaliteit, sociale klasse, etniciteit, gender, slavernij, kolonialisme, burgerschap, seksualiteit, historisch, Verenigde Staten, Europa
- Description
- Theories of intersectionality have fundamentally transformed how feminists and critical race scholars understand the relationship between race and gender, but are often limited in their focus on contemporary experiences of interlocking oppressions. In this book Kitch explores the 'backstory' of intersectionality theory: the historical formation of the racial and gendered hierarchies that continue to structure U.S. culture today. Kitch uses a genealogical approach to explore how a world already divided by gender ideology became one simultaneously obsessed with judgmental ideas about race, starting in Europe and the English colonies in the late seventeenth century. Through an examination of religious, political, and scientific narratives, public policies and testimonies, laws, court cases, and newspaper accounts, this book provides a comparative study of the racial formation and reveals gendered patterns that have served white racial dominance and repeated themselves with variations over a two-hundred-year period.