Intersectional Inequality: Race, Class, Test Scores, and Poverty

Abstract

That's just the thing, gentlemen, that there may well exist something that is dearer for almost every man than his very best profit, or (so as not to violate logic) that there is this one most profitable profit (precisely the omitted one, the one we were just talking about), which is chiefer and more profitable than all other profits, and for which a man is ready, if need be, to go against all laws, that is, against reason, honor, peace, prosperity-in short, against all these beautiful and useful things-only so as to attain this primary, most profitable profit which is dearer to him than anything else. Fyodor dostoevsky, Notes from Underground (1864) WhAt's in A nAme? Around the time of the 2016 US presidential election, a friend told me about a curious new form of harassment. Something like this was happening: pretty much anyone who wasn't a white male might be approached on the street by someone who was.