Summary Of Race, Class, And Sex By Audre Lorde

While analyzing the reading of Age, Race, Class, and Sex, some major key points that stood out to me was the different ways Audre Lorde broke down the topics. She discussed how the younger generation views the older generation as contemptible. Due to this they do not find the need to know about the history and memories that lies in their communities. Lorde uses herself as an example of how she is part of the group that would be considered inferior or deviant. She is a Black lesbian mother of two young boys who so happens to also be a feminist. All of these factors that she is characterized by would place her in the inferior group. For one, we live in a society where black is the minority, whites are the superior group. Therefore blacks become