Race, gender, class, and sexual ideologies and practices have been linked to institutional power, privilege, and oppression throughout history. More specifically if we focus on the period between 1600 and the 1990s. This statement has been proven true several times in various cases; from discrimination against “fallen women” or prostitutes to discrimination against African Americans and other minority groups (the term minority refers to race, class, gender identity, religion; essentially any group that differs from the majority). The purpose of this article is to provide an intersectional discussion about the ways in which these different identities are linked to mistreatment during the period from 1600 to the late 1900s. Several articles assigned in class provide examples of how different groups of people have been oppressed in society because of their race, gender, class, and sexual ideologies. In an article by Judy Yung titled "The Social Awakening of the Chinese Woman," she explains that in the late 1800s and early 1900s Chinese-American women were oppressed by Chinese males, as most Chinese women in California 19th century they were indentured prostitutes, kidnapped, lured, or purchased from poor parents in China and resold in America at high profits to brothels and other clandestine organizations run by Chinese men. Yung states, “About 85% of Chinese women in San Francisco were prostitutes in 1860 and 71% in 1870” (Yung 259). Chinese women were oppressed because of their gender and social class, they were not considered women, but they were considered a profitable object. Chinese women brought to America were often manipulated and persuaded because ... middle of paper ... and masculinity at the same time, he is civilized when he falls in love with Jane, the white woman he meets on the island. Discrimination based on race, gender, class and culture has been repeated since the early stages of humanity. Discrimination can arise from several factors, be it sexual identity, race, gender, social class as this article has shown. The purpose of the article was to discuss how discrimination was linked to institutional power between 1600 and the 1990s, but even today discrimination is widespread and will continue to be, such as the criminal justice system and war. on drugs acts as a form of discrimination against people of color. Discrimination based on race, sexual ideologies and practices, and social class appears to still be widespread, while discrimination based on gender appears to have receded from public view...