Intersectionality and Gendered Racism in the United States: A New Theoretical Framework

Marlene Kim

Review of Radical Political Economics, 2020, vol. 52, issue 4, 616-625

Abstract: I introduce a new theoretical framework to explain intersectionality and economic disparities by gender and race in the United States. I examine patterns of economic outcomes by race and gender, review explanations for them, and assess the extent to which theories explain the intersection of race and gender in these outcomes. I explore gendered racism as the only concept that can explain these patterns by gender, race, and intersectionality. When employers, coworkers, customers, and communities behave and act on gender and racial prejudices and when institutions, ideologies, and belief systems legitimize, reproduce, and perpetuate these prejudices, gendered racism can explain the resulting economic disparities by race, gender, and intersectionality.

Keywords: gendered racism; intersectionality; gender; race (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J31 J71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1177/0486613420926299

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