In her article “African-American Women’s History and the Metalanguage of Race”, Higginbotham discusses that the scholars need to bring race into the analysis of social power. She argues that the explanation of race must have the analysis of its relation to other social categories, including gender, class, and sexuality. In her essay, she argues that race can be brought into analysis of power by three interrelated strategies. First, defining the “technologies” and “construction” of race. Second, exposing race as a metalanguage. Third, reveling both oppressive and liberatory functions of race. The assumptions of all women are the same, and all women within particular race are the same bring class as another social division into the study of African-American
