Digesting Race, Class, and Gender Sugar as a Metaphor
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
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Digesting Race, Cl ass, and Gender Sugar as a Metaphor
Ivy Ken
DIGESTING RACE, CLASS, AND GENDER
Copyright © Ivy Ken, 2010. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2010 978-0-230-60093-5 All rights reserved. Parts of this book have been previously published. Pieces of chapter 2 first appeared in the journal Gender Issues 24, no. 2 (2007) 1–20 as “Race-Class-Gender Theory: An Image(ry) Problem,” used by permission of Springer. Material in Chapters 3, 4, 5, and 6 appeared in the journal Sociological Theory 26, no. 2 (2008) 152–72 as “Beyond the Intersection: A New Metaphor for Race-Class-Gender Studies,” and is used by permission of the American Sociological Association. Cover art by Jennifer Oliver © 2010. First published in 2010 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States—a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-37044-3
ISBN 978-0-230-11538-5 (eBook)
DOI 10.1057/9780230115385 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available from the Library of Congress. A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. Design by Scribe Inc. First edition: December 2010 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
For Johnson, who made space for this book on his shelf.
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Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
Preface
xi
Part 1
A Conceptual Reorientation
1
Metaphor and the Organization of Social Life
2
Race, Class, and Gender as Organizing Principles
Part 2
3 15
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
Part 3 6
105
Searching for Evidence of Relationships at Specific Sites
The Multirelational Character of Race, Class, and Gender
127
References
149
Index
161
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Acknowledgments
One day, long before kids and tenure, I had a crazy idea while I was sitting at the laundromat watching my clothes dry, feeling hungry: maybe the relationships among race, class, and gender are akin to the relationships among different foods. That was the first day of what became years and years of discussions with my partner, Ken, that had to have sounded bizarre to anybody who might have heard a little bit of them. The early discussions often took place over meals— sometimes expensive meals—in which I redirected what might have otherwise been romantic conversations with topics like how the beurre rouge on the striped bass so poignantl
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