Racism, gender, and class interconnections defy grand theoretical specification

Evidence

The search for grand theories specifying the interconnections between racism, gender and class has been less than productive. They are best construed as historically contingent and context specific relationships. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3005

Categorization

• XREF: Mirrors the anti-grand-theory stance in postmodern and pragmatic thought; relates to Brah’s nominalist approach echoing Foucault’s rejection of totalizing frameworks. — connects to: The justification process for subordination is identical across race, caste, class, and sex — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 59; Unitary categories like race and class fray at the edges under sustained analysis — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 354; Post-Cold-War racism showed class analysis alone cannot explain structural inequality — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1357 (+3 more)