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A Conceptual Reorientation
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2. Metaphor and the Organization of Social Life
  
  Ivy Ken
  
  Pages 3-13
3. Race, Class, and Gender as Organizing Principles
  
  Ivy Ken
  
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Using Food to Identify Relationships Among Race, Class, and Gender
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2. Producing Race, Class, and Gender
  
  Ivy Ken
  
  Pages 55-75
3. Mixing Race, Class, and Gender
  
  Ivy Ken
  
  Pages 77-104
4. Digesting Race, Class, and Gender
  
  Ivy Ken
  
  Pages 105-124
Searching for Evidence of Relationships at Specific Sites
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2. The Multirelational Character of Race, Class, and Gender
  
  Ivy Ken
  
  Pages 127-148
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About this book

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 - foods that are produced in fields, mixed together in bowls, and digested in our social and institutional bodies. In the field, one food may contaminate another through cross-pollination. In the mixing bowl, each food s original molecular structure changes in the presence of others. And within a meal, the presence of one food may impede or facilitate the digestion of another. At each of these sites, the "foods" of race, class, and gender are involved in dynamic relationships with each other that have implications for the shape - or the taste - of our social order.

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IVY KEN Assistant Professor of Sociology at George Washington University, USA.

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Book Title: Digesting Race, Class, and Gender
Book Subtitle: Sugar as a Metaphor
Authors: Ivy Ken
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230115385
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-60093-5Published: 19 January 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-37044-3Published: 19 January 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-11538-5Published: 20 December 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 165
Topics: International Political Economy, Ethnicity Studies, Gender Studies, Political Science, Sociology, general, Social Structure, Social Inequality

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Front Matter

A Conceptual Reorientation

Front Matter

Metaphor and the Organization of Social Life

Race, Class, and Gender as Organizing Principles

Using Food to Identify Relationships Among Race, Class, and Gender

Front Matter

Producing Race, Class, and Gender

Mixing Race, Class, and Gender

Digesting Race, Class, and Gender

Searching for Evidence of Relationships at Specific Sites

Front Matter

The Multirelational Character of Race, Class, and Gender

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About this book

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