The Handbook is aimed at undergraduate and graduate students who are looking for a basic history, overview of key themes, and future directions for the study of the intersection of race, class, and gender. Scholars new to the area will also find the Handbook's approach useful.

Table of Contents

• Figures
• Tables
• Contributors
• PART I Theorizing race, class, and gender studies
• Preface
• 1 Conceptualizing intersectionality in superordination: masculinities, whitenesses, and dominant classes - Cliff Leek and Michael Kimmel
• 2 Unpacking the intersections of identity and politics and the politics of studying identity: a black feminist theoretical and epistemological tool kit - Adryan Wallace
• PART II Conversations on race, class, and gender
• Preface
• 3 Difficult conversations: race, class and gender in White Australia - Brendan Churchill, Joselynn Baltra-Ulloa and Robyn Moore
• 4 Making visible the invisible: cultural scripts that inform relationships among African American women - Toy Lisa Mitchell
• 5 Intersections in everyday conversations: racetalk, classtalk, and gendertalk in the workplace - David G. Embrick and Kasey Henricks
• PART III Race, class, gender, and migration
• Preface
• 6 Anti-immigrant sentiments and immigrant concentration at work in contemporary Japan - Hiromi Ono and Hiroshi Ono
• 7 Kurdish migrant women negotiating the complex web of gender, class, and ethnicity in the city - Ozge Sensoy Bahar
• 8 Muslim women and work in Scotland - Masoumeh Velayati
• PART IV Race, class, gender, and sexualities
• Preface
• 9 Sex as subversion: the ethnosexual protestor and the ethnosexual defender - Robert Reece
• 10 Herbivore masculinity: opposition or accommodation to hegemonic masculinity? - Justin Charlebois
• 11 The (pink) elephant in the room: the structure and experience of race and violence in the lives of transgender prisoners in California - Jennifer Sumner, Lori Sexton, Valerie Jenness, and Cheryl L. Maxson
• PART V Race, class, gender, and education
• Preface
• 12 The role of ethnicity, class, and gender in social capital formation: a case study of supportive peer networks among Somali working-class immigrant adolescents - Moosung Lee
• 13 Race, class, gender, and online courses in the academy: new questions for the twenty-first century - Amitra A. Wall, Susan Mary Paige, and Joseph Marren
• 14 Facing ethnic, gender, and class inequality in academia - Nina Toren
• PART VI Race, class, gender, and work
• Preface
• 15 The empirical challenge of intersectionality: understanding race, class, and gender through a study of occupations - Enobong Hannah Branch
• 16 Professional ghettoization: the clustering of workers at the intersections of gender, race, (and class) - Joy Kadowaki
• PART VII Cultural contexts and identity
• Preface
• 17 Realities and fluidity of race, class, and gender: different places, times, and contexts - Shobha Hamal Gurung
• 18 “We're 80 percent more patriotic”: Atlanta's Muslim South Asian Americans and cultural citizenship - Stanley Thangaraj
• PART VIII Conclusion: contemporary trends in the intersection of race, class, and gender
• Preface
• 19 Race, colour and class in Caribbean society - Roy McCree
• 20 Gender, caste, and class: structural violence in India - Mangala Subramaniam and Preethi Krishnan Ramaswamy
• 21 A decade of little change: gender, race and ethnicity in state legislatures, 2003-2012 - Elizabeth M. Esterchild and Ray L. Darville