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Scholars focusing on race, class, and gender studies primarily examine how social inequalities affect individuals and communities across various social categories and their intersections. These researchers explore diverse aspects of group dynamics both within the U.S. and globally, employing various approaches such as ethnographic studies, population analysis, and combined quantitative-qualitative techniques. Their expertise spans numerous fields including African/African American research, Asian American studies, critical race analysis, gender and sexual identity studies, healthcare inequities, global migration patterns, intersectional theory, Latino sociology, racial-cultural dynamics, and examinations of both personal and institutional racism and anti-racism efforts. Many also investigate how racism persists in social structures, the racial identity formation of Latino populations, discrimination based on race, ethnicity and gender, housing and workplace segregation patterns, differential assimilation processes, and how immigrant communities become part of society.