The Matrix of Race- Vantage Learning Platform

Social Construction, Intersectionality, and Inequality

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KEY FEATURES OF THE MATRIX OF RACE, SECOND EDITION

• The text is written by a trio of diverse race scholars who blend their distinct personal backgrounds, teaching experiences, and research interests.

• Unlike many texts, The Matrix of Race is organized around the social institutions where race is lived and experienced, rather than the examination of individual groups.

• A historical perspective throughout allows students to see how race has been shaped, maintained and transformed at multiple points across time.

• The “Matrix” framework helps readers see the complexity and dynamic aspects of race, and incorporates a number of important theories and perspectives throughout:
  
  • Race is socially constructed—it changes from one place to another and across time.
  • Race is intersectional—it is embedded in other socially-constructed categories of difference like ethnicity, gender, social class, ethnicity, and sexuality.
  • There are two sides to race—oppression and privilege—and many of us experience forms of both.
  • It is more useful to focus on the structures of society than to blame individuals for racial inequality

• The text emphasizes the powerful role of narrative in the social construction of race and difference, using four different types of stories:
  
  • Stock stories told mainly by the dominant group.
  • Concealed stories that reveal hidden truths about race.
  • Resistance stories that directly challenge the status quo.
  • Transforming stories that offer a vision of a racial justice.