I had never had an open dialog about race with my son until I started to read this chapter on race and ethnicity. This chapter open my eyes on how many minority women including myself can be discriminated against for being a single or divorced woman raising a child on their own and how we are considered a disadvantage minority at the bottom of the latter. Learning this made me feel uncomfortable because it made me feel so racially categorized. This started the dialog about race with my son, I asked him if he had ever felt discriminated against because of his race or ethnicity, he doesn’t think he had been, but he spoke about a time at Sam’s club gas station while filling up his gas tank, how a sale representative of a glass cleaning product
