Summary Of Race, Class, And Gender In The United States By Rothenberg

In Rothenberg’s Race, Class, and Gender in the United States, Rothenberg explains, “the categories of gender, race, and class are themselves socially constructed” (Rothenberg 8). In other words, Rothenberg is explaining that the perceptions of race, class, gender, and sexuality are merely founded upon conjectures of reality established by society. For example, until the founding of particular understandings concerning race in the late 1700s, Africans and Europeans did not recognize differences between each other that could allow for one group to feel superior to the other (Rothenberg 33). The fact that race did not allow Europeans to have a sense of superiority over Africans or vice versa, suggests that race is a socially constructed phenomenon