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Race and gender are central dimensions of inequality. However, race and gender also denote dimensions of difference that are not reducible to inequality even if they are always deeply influenced by it. They are also dimensions of self-understanding, social relationships, culture, and power. How the categories are constituted is as basic as how they figure in inequality.

Understanding race and gender, moreover, is necessarily a matter of connecting structure and action, the relationship of agency to power, and the ways culture and inequality are reproduced in institutions – in other words, all the themes addressed in prior sections of this book.