Everyday racism and sexism differ in form and history, making race-gender analogies distorting.

Evidence

A prevalent form of everyday racism is contact avoidance, whereas everyday discrimination against women can take the reverse form: uninvited touching. A serious problem with analogizing is that women of color are made invisible in comparing “blacks” and “women.” Furthermore, analogies do not do justice to the fact that racisms and genderisms are rooted in specific histories designating separate as well as mutually interwoven formations of race and gender. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1472

Categorization

• DEFINE: Sharpens the race-vs-gender distinction and introduces intersectional invisibility — a corrective to vault-wide analogies that flatten race and gender into the same mechanism.
• XREF: Speaks directly to how ‘racialization’ and gender formations interlock; relevant to any vault claim comparing race discrimination to sex discrimination. — connects to: Analogizing racism and sexism erases the specific experience of women of color — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1472

Broader Connections

• Analogizing racism and sexism erases the specific experience of women of color #corroborates (0.90) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1472