In five pages this paper examines how social divisions are maintained through ideologies as they pertain to gender, race, and class. Three sources are cited in the bibliography.
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The continuing presence of racial, class, and gender ideology suggests that myths and stereotypes cannot be exposed as such in
the popular imagination and ultimately discarded from society. A number of considerations in fact enter into the societal demarcations which we have in place. This paper attempts to delineate
those considerations and to address the question of how meanings of racial, class, and gender identity can be reshaped, if not removed from society? What would be necessary to make
these changes? As would be expected, one of the first considerations confronting us in regard to the ideology which keeps us separated as
a people is money. Rubin (29) asserts, in fact, that income is one of the most important determinants of class standing. While our nation prides itself on the
false belief that we have overcome racial, class, and gender boundaries, the facts of the matter are quite different. One of the most disturbing of these facts is that
all-too-often poverty goes hand in hand with being a member of the non-mainstream, of being non-white, non-male, and non-middle class or wealthy. As Rubin (29) also points out, politicians
have engaged in all sorts of acrobatics to negate out the existence of the poor and the association of the poor with race and gender. Despite the semantics, however,
poverty remains a very real component of the American landscape. At the same time, however, the fact that such effort goes into ignoring the presence of the poor is
a reflection of how our society views the poor and thus the non-whites and females who comprise it. Rubin (30) confirms that the intent is to make the poor