Gender, Race and Class: A Study Guide

brown berets Gender, Race and Class: A Study GuideIn “A Theory of Oppositional Consciousness,” Chela Sandoval wrote, “It is important to remember that the form of U.S. third world feminism it represents and enacts has been influenced not only by struggles against gender domination, but by the struggles against race, class, and cultural hierarchies which mark the twentieth century in the United States. It is a mapping of consciousness in opposition to the dominant social order which charts the white and hegemonic feminist histories of consciousness…while also making visible the different ground from which a specific U.S. third world feminism rises. It is important to understand that this typology is not necessarily ”feminist’ in nature, but is rather a history of oppositional consciousness.” In that spirit, the following study guide explores intersections in gender, race and class.