Assignment Problem: According to the authors in our text in Rothenberg's Race, Class, and Gender in the United States (answer all of the following, provide depth and elaboration):
Q1. What is meant in the text by "the construction of difference as deviance or deficiency" underlies the systems of oppression that determine how power, privilege, wealth, and opportunity are distributed"?
Q2. How do the authors in Part II describe how racism, sexism, heterosexism, and class privilege play out in our social society and social interactions?
Q3. What is meant by "racism and sexism are systems of advantage"?
Q4. What is meant by these systems are more complex than dichotomous thinking?