Welcome to the Companion Website

This site is intended to enhance your use of Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Social class, Second Edition, by Susan J. Ferguson. Please note that all the materials on this site are especially geared toward maximizing your understanding of the material. 

An eye-opening exploration of how socials statuses intersect to shape our identities and produce inequalities.

In this fully edited and streamlined Second Edition, Susan Ferguson has carefully selected readings that open readers’ eyes to the ways that social statuses shape our experiences and impact our life chances. The anthology represents many of the leading voices in the field and reflects the many approaches used by scholars and researchers to understand this important and evolving subject. The anthology is organized around broad topics (Identity, Power and Privilege, Social Institutions, etc.), rather than categories of difference (Race, Gender, Class, Sexuality) to underscore this fundamental insight: race, class, gender, and sexuality do not exist in isolation; they often intersect with one another to produce social inequalities and form the bases of our identities in society.

Acknowledgments

We gratefully acknowledge Susan J. Ferguson for writing an excellent text and for reviewing the assets on this site. Special thanks are also due to Becky Starnes of Austin Peay State University and Deden Rukmana of Savannah State University for creating the ancillaries on this site.