Race, Class, And Gender Still Matter By Margaret L, Andersen And Patricia Hill Collins

Margaret L, Andersen and Patricia Hill Collins, in their article, (Why Race, Class, and Gender Still Matter, published in Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Cengage Learning, addresses the topic of race, class and gender and argues that their relevance is due to the fact that they continue to structure society in ways that value some lives more than others. They supports this claim by using the matrix of domination in relation to gender, race and class, then advise the reader to look at an issue through a broad perspective- realizing both the oppressor and the oppressed, and finally distinguish between recognizing and understanding diversity and not just acknowledging it. Andersen and Collins’ purpose is to have students think about race, class and gender
This states that diversity should not be something that limits one group and privileges another. Acknowledging the fact that there is a system of oppressor and oppressed within class systems is a factor I feel my other sources do not mention greatly. However, one of the weaknesses I found in the argument came about when there are questions as to what's or who’s privileged and why. The authors greatly detail the importance of intersectionality in diversity and are direct in getting their point across that in order to understand race, class and gender. While I agree that intersectionality should be considered greatly when dealing with issues of gender race and class however, I feel that the author focuses more on covering diversity up with this term than stating certain issues that should be acknowledged. Also, the text doesn't directly say much about the issues of race or gender in relation to class and does not specify in detail the relations between the three however it states that the three should be connected. The text overall, is general and is more informative than it is