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A Masterclass in Connecting Status, Power, & the Economy with Tressie McMillan Cottom

The Money with Katie Show

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US-Specific Abstractions of Race, Class, and Gender

  • Tressie McMillan Cottom is drawing a diagram to explain how she sees the interconnection of race, class, and gender.
  • She emphasizes the importance of understanding that there are two levels of abstraction to consider.
  • One level is the uniquely American way these concepts are structured and given power.
  • Because the US is a global economy, its structures impact the rest of the world.
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