What is it about?
This book breaks new ground in terms of content and method. The book examines interviews, news articles, and television shows to demonstrate how commonsense shapes and sustains knowledge that is fundamental to maintaining inequalities. I systematically crossed disciplinary boundaries to create analyses that could look both at interaction and cultural discourses. The analyses in this book take up details of seemingly innocuous interactions to illustrate how relations of power travel through mundane social life.
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Why is it important?
It is possible to work for social change and at the same time have those efforts undermined by deeply embedded assumptions that continue to make categories of race, class, gender and sexuality relevant in specific and oppressive ways.
Perspectives
This book was an exciting journey of discoveries for me—both in terms of the limits of social science methods and the power of commonsense.
Professor Celine-Marie Pascale
American University, Washington, DC
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This page is a summary of: Making Sense of Race, Class, and Gender, December 2006, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.4324/9780203724460.
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