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class hierarchy
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(programming)class hierarchy - A set of classes and their interrelationships.

One class may be a specialisation (a "subclass" or "derived class") of another which is one of its "superclasses" or "base classes".

When a method is invoked on an object it is first looked for in the object's class, then the superclass of that class, and so on up the hierarchy until it is found. Thus a class need only define those methods which are specific to it, and inherits methods from all its superclasses.

See also: multiple inheritance.


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Apel explains how white supremacists circulated these photographs, often produced as souvenir postcards, to solidify race, gender, and class hierarchies.
Like colonial rulers, they recreated race, gender, and class hierarchies that located them--"white," educated, middle-class Puerto Ricans--above the racially-mixed/black and impoverished laboring men and women.
Detailed discussions of the interactions between American and Japanese women in their "competition" for access to the alpha white male would have made the discussion of racial and class hierarchies even more nuanced, as would observations on the distinctions made by some Japanese women between "African" and "American" black males.
 
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