Race and Ethnicity
Order Description
Focusing on the intersection of race and gender, Evelyn Nakano Glenn gives a historical view of political and economic inequality in the southern and southwestern regions of the United States as
well as Hawaii. A broad theme in Nakano Glenn’s work is that different political, economic, and social configurations have produced racial and gender inequality in the United States.
a. Referencing Nakano Glenn’s conceptual framework, how does race and gender work together as mutually supporting forms of subordination? (2 pages)
b. How does race and gender help to structure ideas of American citizenship and labor over time? (2 pages)
c. According to Nakano Glenn, how did race and gender operate across regional lines depriving women and minorities economic opportunity and independence? (2 pages)