In her essay, Jacqueline Jones explains the ideas of race and gender and states that they are hard to discuss as different categories in historical analysis because they are continuously changing. She says that in past ten or fifteen the racial and gender ideologies were extricated from their biological roots. Author also states that it is easy to find examples of physical appearance irrelevance to definition of race or sex organs irrelevance to definition of gender. Jones gives examples of young girl who appeared to be white but when it was discovered that she had African heritage she was fired from her job. Another example Jones gives are black men in the U.S army who were assigned to perform female service work. In both situations white
