Digesting Race, Class, and Gender: Sugar as a Metaphor by Ivy Ken (auth.)
By Ivy Ken (auth.)
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In particular, when married white men and married Latinos have children, their earnings tend to go up (the “fatherhood premium”), as do their hours at work. When married black men have children, their earnings also go up less, and 30 Digesting Race, Class, and Gender their hours at work do not increase. In part, this is because white couples tend to have a less equitable division of labor than black couples, Glauber reports, so while many white wives experience a “motherhood penalty” in their paid jobs, requiring their husbands to work more and earn more, black fathers are neither under the same pressure nor able—given persistent forms of racial discrimination in the labor market—to parlay their new status as fathers into better work experiences.
Even Sartre is ultimately concerned with the project of identity formation. Such a focus is important because identity is believed to motivate us, to reflect what is important to us, to represent how we see ourselves and how the world sees us, or, in short, to be us. Humanities scholars are joined by many others in this quest to pin down identity. A special issue of the psychology journal Sex Roles, for instance, published in September 2008, is titled “Intersectionality of Social Identities” and provides this definition in the description of its contents: “Intersectionality, the mutually constitutive relations among social identities, is a central tenet of feminist thinking” (emphasis mine).
Because these organizations “provide an institutionalized voice” for members of groups whose individual voices tend not to be heard, this lack of representation is especially damaging for the needs of people who are “intersectionally marginalized” (Crenshaw 1989). Race, class, and gender shape the contours of advocacy as an institution by implicitly informing advocacy organizations’ agendas, even as these organizations attempt to upset mainstream political agendas that already disadvantage their constituents.