Digesting Race, Class, and Gender: Sugar as a Metaphor

by I. Ken

Overview

How are the ways that race organizes our lives related to the ways gender and class organize our lives? How might these organizing mechanisms conflict or work together? In Digesting Race, Class, and Gender, Ivy Ken likens race, class, and gender to foods - foods that are produced in fields, mixed together in bowls, and digested in our social and institutional bodies. In the field, one food may contaminate another through cross-pollination. In the mixing bowl, each food s original molecular structure changes in the presence of others. And within a meal, the presence of one food may impede or facilitate the digestion of another. At each of these sites, the "foods" of race, class, and gender are involved in dynamic relationships with each other that have implications for the shape - or the taste - of our social order.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230600935
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	01/19/2011
Edition description:	2010
Pages:	165
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

IVY KEN Assistant Professor of Sociology at George Washington University, USA.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Preface xi

Part 1 A Conceptual Reorientation

1 Metaphor and the Organization of Social Life 3

2 Race, Class, and Gender as Organizing Principles 15

Part 2 Using Food to Identify Relationships Among Race, Class, and Gender

3 Producing Race, Class, and Gender 55

4 Mixing Race, Class, and Gender 77

5 Digesting Race, Class, and Gender 105

Part 3 Searching for Evidence of Relationships at Specific Sites

6 The Multirelational Character of Race, Class, and Gender 127

References 149

Index 161