Class-versus-race debate falsely forced a single privileged explanatory category.

Evidence

The theoretical terms of debate created other forms of closure. Constructed in essentially “either-or” terms, the analytical choice to be made was whether class trumped race as the fundamental category of historical explanation, or vice vena. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 572

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to other debates about whether single-factor explanations capture social reality, e.g. culture vs. structure arguments common in sociology of inequality.