Race and gender are mutually defining relational concepts, not separate categories

Evidence

Collins invented the phrase “matrix of domination” to describe the “overall social organization within which intersecting oppressions originate, develop, and are contained” (Collins 2008 227228). Evelyn Nakano Glenn argues that race and gender are relational concepts in an interlocking system, providing a historical examination of citizenship and labor in the United States between 1870 and 1930. Glenn argues that these categories cannot be understood separately, but are defined and given meaning inrelationship to each other: “Race and gender share three key features as analytic concepts: (1) they are relational concepts whose construction involves (2) representation and material relations and (3) in which power is a constitutive element” (Glenn 2002, 12-13). — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 136

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• DEFINE: Defines Collins’s ‘matrix of domination’ and Glenn’s three features of race/gender as analytic concepts.

Related

• Race and gender interlock as socially constructed relational categories (similarity 0.97)
• Race is a modern concept barely existing before the Enlightenment (similarity 0.79)
• Race is a modern concept tied to early global capitalism and colonial conquest. (similarity 0.78)
• Racial hierarchies operate through gender, sexuality, and class simultaneously (similarity 0.78)
• Race functioned as an organizing principle tying bodies to social statuses (similarity 0.78)