Race, class, and gender in the United States : an integrated study /
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| Edition: | 6th ed. |
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| Imprint: | New York : Worth Publishers, c2004. |
| Description: | xvii, 650 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5603715 |
Table of Contents:
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- Part I. The Social Construction of Difference: Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality
- 1. Racial Formations
- 2. The Ethics of Living Jim Crow: An Autobiographical Sketch
- 3. Constructing Race, Creating White Privilege
- 4. How Jews Became White
- 5. Night to His Day: The Social Construction of Gender
- 6. The Social Construction of Sexuality
- 7. The Invention of Heterosexuality
- 8. Masculinity as Homophobia: Fear, Shame, and Silence in the Construction of Gender Identity
- 9. Disability and the Justification of Inequality in American History
- 10. Deconstructing the Underclass
- 11. Domination and Subordination
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- Part II. Understanding Racism, Sexism, Heterosexism, and Class Privilege
- 12. Defining Racism: "Can We Talk?"
- 13. On the Nature of Contemporary Prejudice: the Causes, Consequences, and Challenges of Aversive Racism
- 14. Smells Like Racism
- 15. Race Relations Becoming More Complex Across the Country
- 16. Racism and Sexism
- 17. Patriarchy
- 18. Oppression
- 19. Homophobia As a Weapon of Sexism
- 20. White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
- 21. Class in America -- 2003
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- Part III. Discrimination in Everyday Life
- 22. The Problem: Discrimination, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
- 23. Racial Disparities Seen As Pervasive in Juvenile Justice
- 24. "White" Names Give Job Seekers an Edge
- 25. Equality at Work Remains Elusive
- 26. Wal-Martyrs
- 27. Sex Bias Cited in Vocational Ed
- 28. EEOC Files Sexual Harrassment Suit Against Denny's
- 29. Anti-Muslim Crimes Jump after Sept. 11 in Jersey and U.S.
- 30. Asian American Journalists Association Objects to Syndicated Cartoonist's Use of Racist Stereotypes of Asians
- 31. EEOC Sues Arizona Diner for National Origin Bias against Navajos and Other Native Americans, EEOC
- 32. Poll Finds Latinos are Objects of Negative Perceptions
- 33. Injured Laborers File $66M Suit: Suing Men Charged in Bias Attacks
- 34. Store Staff Sue Bosses Over Abuse
- 35. The Loneliest Athletes
- 36. Attacks on Gays Upset Los Angeles Suburb
- 37. When Bias Hits Golf, All Eyes on Tiger
- 38. America's Impossible Dream: A House
- 39. Minority Health Care Found Lacking
- 40. Study Finds the Nation's Public School Districts are Resegregating by Race
- 41. Colleges Out of Reach for Low-Income Students
- 42. Are America's Schools Leaving Latinas Behind?, AAUW
- 43. The All-Boy Network: Public Affairs Shows Reflect Shortage of Women in Power
- 44. Despite Some Progress, Minorities Remain an Unseen Presence
- 45. Students Defend Icon that Offends
- 46. The Baby Boy Pay Off
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- Part IV. The Economics of Race, Class and Gender in the United States
- 47. Imagine a Country--2003
- 48. Number of People Living in Poverty Increases in U.S.
- 49. CEOs: New Century
- 50. Still at the Periphery: The Economic Status of African Americans
- 51. Being Black, Living in the Red: Wealth Matters
- 52. The Son's Also Rise
- 53. The Wage Gap, National Committee on Pay Equity
- 54. Her Next Step? Growing Numbers of American Women Face Retirement Financially Insecure
- 55. Billionaire's Ex-Wife Wants $4,400 a Day to Raise Daughter
- 56. The Education of Jessica Rivera
- 57. What Scholars Can Tell Politicians About the Poor
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- Part V. Many Voices, Many Lives: Some Consequences of Racial, Gender, and Class Inequality
- 58. Census 2000 Shows America's Diversity
- 59. America 2000: A Map of the Mix
- 60. Then Came the War
- 61. Yellow
- 62. Asian American?
- 63. Suicide Note
- 64. TV Arabs
- 65. Yes, I Follow Islam, But I'm Not a Terrorist
- 66. The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria
- 67. Los Intersticios: Recasting Moving Selves
- 68. The Circuit
- 69. What I Learned about Jews
- 70. Pigskin, Patriarchy, and Pain
- 71. He Defies You Still: The Memoirs of a Sissy
- 72. With No Immediate Cause
- 73. Requiem for the Champ
- 74. School Shootings and White Denial
- 75. Out of the Closet but Not Out of Middle School
- 76. Her Son/Daughter
- 77. More and More Young Women Choose Surgical "Perfection"
- 78. Finding My Eye-Dentity
- 79. The Case of Sharon Kowalski and Karen Thompson: Ableism, Heterosexism, and Sexism
- 80. Lame
- 81. A Farewell Wish: That Women Be Heard
- 82. C.P. Ellis - Studs Terkel
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- Part VI. How It Happened: Race and Gender Issues in U.S. Law
- 83. Indian Tribes: A Continuing Quest for Survival, U.S. Commission on Human Rights
- 84. An Act for the Better Ordering and Governing of Negroes and Slaves, South Carolina, 1712
- 85. The "Three-Fifths Compromise": In the United States Constitution Article I, Section 2
- 86. An Act Prohibiting the Teaching of Slaves to Read
- 87. Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, Seneca Falls Convention, 1848
- 88. The Anti-Suffragists: Selected Papers, 1852-1887
- 89. People v. Hall, 1854
- 90. Dred Scot v. Sanford, 1857
- 91. The Emancipation Proclamation, Abraham Lincoln
- 92. United States Constitution: Thirteenth (1865), Fourteenth (1868), and Fifteenth (1870) Amendments
- 93. The Black Codes, W.E.B. Du Bois
- 94. Bradwell v. Illinois, 1875
- 95. Minor v. Happersett, 1875
- 96. California Constitution, 1876
- 97. Elk v. Wilkins, November 3, 1884
- 98. Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896
- 99. United States Constitution: Nineteenth Amendment (1920)
- 100. Korematsu v. United States, 1944
- 101. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 1954
- 102. Roe v. Wade, 1973
- 103. Equal Rights Amendment (defeated)
- 104. Bowers v. Hardwick, 1986
- 105. Lesbian and Gay Rights in Historical Perspective
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- Part VII. Maintaining Race, Class, and Gender Hierarchies: Social Control
- 106. Where Bias Begins: The Truth About Stereotypes
- 107. Anti-Gay Stereotypes
- 108. White Lies
- 109. Am I Thin Enough Yet?
- 110. Pulling Train
- 111. Sex and Race: The Analogy of Social Control
- 112. Media Magic: Making Class Invisible
- 113. Masked Racism: Reflections on the Prison Industrial Complex
- 114. Blaming the Victim
- 115. Language, Culture, and Reality
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- Part VIII. Making a Difference: Social Activism
- 116. Interrupting the Cycle of Oppression: The Role of Allies as Agents of Change
- 117. Combatting Intentional Bigotry and Inadvertently Racist Acts
- 118. Confronting Anti-Gay Violence
- 119. Rice Shirts Make More than Fashion Statement
- 120. Sweats and Tears: A Protest is Sweeping US Campuses to End the Use of Sweatshops to Produce College-Endorsed Clothes
- 121. United Students Against Sweatshops
- 122. Students Spend Spring Break Protesting Taco Bell
- 123. Narrowing the Income Gap between Rich and Poor
- 124. A Clean Sweep: The SEIU's Organizing Drive for Janitors Shows How Unionization Can Raise Wages
- 125. Recipe for Organizing
- 126. Child of the Americas
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- Index
