Andersen, Margaret L., Collins, Patricia Hill, 2007, Race, Class, and Gender: Anthology, (Six Edition).

Andersen, Margaret L., Collins, Patricia Hill, 2007, Race, Class, and Gender: Anthology, (Six Edition) Australia, Thomson Wadsworth. ISBN 0-495-006890.

This instructor's editions analyzed the interrelationship of race, class, and gender and explored how they have shaped the experiences of all people in the United States. This book makes an important contribution to the understanding of race, class, and gender and shows by experience how they affect all aspects of human life.

Organized into four parts, the book addresses, 'Why Race, Class and Gender still matter, systems of power and inequality' 'The structure of social institutions', and social change and sites of change: This review will highlight the main features in each part.

The first part establishes the framework of the study of race, class, and gender. The essays in this part are graded in personal experiences. This entails making interdisciplinary analysis, making connections, and exploring contradictions.

In the second part, the authors provide a conceptual foundation for understanding how race, class, and gender are linked together and how they link with other systems of power and inequality, especially ethnicity and sexualities. The introductory essays provide working definitions for these major concepts and present some of the contemporary society.

The third part focuses on the structure of social institutions. The intersection of race, class, and gender are examined to show how they shape the organization of social institutions and how these institutions affect group experience. This part also includes the original focus on work, families, culture and state. More attention is given to the media and culture, violence, health and disability. The authors suggest importance of thinking about people of colour, different class experiences, and women, in analyzing all social institutions.

The final part "Social Change and sites of Change", the focus on social change as a process as well as looking at particular social locations where change can take place. The essays in this part focus in the sites of change and also the processes of change are examined to show the challenges that confront people for change in financial organizations, churches, and grass roots organizations.

Generally the introduction to each part of this book provides the students with the necessary understanding of human experiences.

Plus, the text is also accompanied by an outstanding collection of teaching and learning tools, resources for students and the instructors.

The text is very useful for interdisciplinary courses in Women's Studies, Ethnic Studies, Sociology and political science, as well as providing an excellent resource material for the humanities. The text will take students through the process of restructuring knowledge to develop an inclusive vision of society.

By: Dr. Asia Maccawi Ahmed-Associate Professor, School of Management Studies.