"Doing race (or gender)" and Salience

In Markus and Moya’s chapter in Doing Race, there are two figures they set against each other- one that shows race as personal characteristics and the other that shows race as social processes (17-18). The pictures enforce the idea that race is not something inherently found in people, but is something that we learn to “do” through interactions with others. Other models set some of the processes that take place in deciding race as similar to those that decide gender as well. Is this a model that we feel we could adopt and slightly change in order to describe the social processes that go into “doing gender” as well?

Also, while the diagram made a lot of sense to me, in class I know we spoke about some situations/interactions that make race or gender more salient for individuals than others. It may just be me, but I feel like unless an individual is of a minority group, this process may not always be taking place for them. For instance, I can see how gender can be salient for a female when she is interacting with other females or males, but not necessarily how gender may be salient for males interacting with each other. In the same way, I believe race (and the process of doing race) is very often salient when a black person is with another black person, a member of another minority group, or a white person. But I am unsure of how race may be salient for a white individual when addressing another white individual and cannot see how that process of “doing race” may be affecting their understanding of what it means to be white. This may just have to do with what has been generally set as the norm in our society, but I am also interested in other views. Do you feel that this is the case? If so, why would that be? If not, what are some examples of ways in which “doing race (or gender, if we do want to extend the term)” could be done by/between those who find themselves in ‘majority’ groups