Gender, Race, and Identity: Social Justice

Evaluates U.S. society through an international human rights framework. The book provides a critical discussion about what rights mean, along with a sociological exploration of power and inequality to explain why human rights are so often violated or left ignored and unfulfilled in the United States. Each chapter offers numerous policy alternatives, while also stressing the important role that nonviolent social movements.

How can we hope to understand social inequality without considering race, class, and gender in tandem? This clearly written book presents intersectionality as a core facet of the sociological imagination, examining all systems of oppression simultaneously and how they integrate and work with or against each other to shape life experiences.

These meditations on race, identity, and social policy provide an outline for laying claim to our shared humanity and a way toward healing ourselves and securing our future. Racing to Justice challenges us to replace attitudes and institutions that promote and perpetuate social suffering with those that foster relationships and a way of being that transcends disconnection and separation.