Experiencing Race, Class, and Gender in the United States

by Fiske-Rusciano, Roberta; Cyrus, Virginia

• ISBN13: 9780072886146
• ISBN10: 0072886145
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-08-03
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

Through individual stories, essays, and critical analyses, this anthology introduces issues of race, class, and gender within an interdisciplinary framework. Themes of identity, power, and change are examined from many different perspectives and voices.

Table of Contents

PREFACE	viii
Experiencing Race, Class, and Gender in the United States	xii
Identity	1	(192)
Part I Racial and Ethnic Identity	3	(60)
1 I Walk Alone by Lonnie Poco
2 Ethnicity in American Life: The Historical Perspective by John Hope Franklin
3 American Anthropological Association Statement on "Race'
4 The Loudest Voice by Grace Paley
5 To Be Hopi or American by Polingaysi Qoyawayma (Elizabeth Q. White)
6 People of Color Who Never Felt They Were Black by Darryl Fears
7 Rosa Wakefield by John Langston Gwaltney
8 I Am a Racially Profiling Doctor by Sally Satel
9 Are Doctors' Offices Places for Racial Profiling?
10 El Hilo Que Nos Une
The Thread That Binds Us: Becoming a Puerto Rican Woman by Celia Alvarez
11 In Search of Bruce Lee's Grave by Shanlon Wu
12 Remembering My Grandmother, Remembering Lebanon by Therese Saliba
13 American Dreamer by Bharati Mukherjee
14 On the Other Side of the War: A Story by Elizabeth Gordon
15 Medicalization of Racial Features: Asian American Women and Cosmetic Surgery by Eugenia Kaw
16 Before the Great Gorge by Carlos Cumpian
17 Beyond the Melting Pot by William A. Henry III
Part II Gender Identity	63	(36)
18 In the Beginning There Are Babies by Angela Phillips
19 Time Warp in the Toy Store by Ellen J. Reifler
20 How Women Are Treated in Language by Janet Shibley Hyde
21 Gender Roles and Ethnicity by Janet Shibley Hyde
22 August Genesis by Rebecca Fiske
23 Where I Come from Is Like This by Paula Gunn Allen
24 The Male Role Stereotype by Doug Cooper Thompson
25 Taking It by Leonard Kriegel
26 Tears Still Taboo for Average Guy by Carl Ryan
27 Asymmetries in Communication by Deborah Tannen
Part III Sexual Identity	99	(28)
28 A Transsexual's Story by Jessica R. Stearns
29 Two Sexes Are Not Enough by Anne Fausto-Sterling
30 Cold Feet: Why America Has Gay Marriage Jitters by Elisabeth Bumiller
31 When the Political Is Personal by Ann Marie Nicolosi
32 Putting a Face on Difference: A Gay Family Visits the College Classroom by Mildred L. Rice Jordan
Part IV Economics and the American Dream	127	(66)
33 This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona by Sherman Alexie
34 Decloaking Class: Why Class Identity and Consciousness Count by Janet Zandy
35 Looking for Work by Gary Soto
36 The Truth About Growing Up Rich by Sallie Bingham
37 The Working Mother as Fashion Victim by Jody Kolodzey
38 To Be Black, Gifted, and Alone by Bebe Moore Campbell
39 Keeping Close to Home: Class and Education by bell hooks
40 Jewish and Working Class by Bernice Mennis
41 First They Changed My Name...by Caffilene Allen
42 Daddy Tucked the Blanket by Randall Williams
43 Something Is Robbing Our Children of Their Future by Colin Greer
44 Mother Courage by Ariel Gore
45 We're Not Bums by Peter Swet
46 Poverty or at Home in a Car by Jackie Spinks
47 The Fall by Marge Piercy
POWER
Part V Power and Racism	193	(99)
48 Rethinking America by Evelyn Hu-DeHart
49 Historical Discrimination in the Immigration Laws by U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
50 Anti-Immigrant Violence by Southern Poverty Law Center
51 2-205 by Reshma Baig
52 Something About the Subject Makes It Hard to Name by Gloria Yamato
53 White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh
54 Native Americans v. the U.S. Government by Michael Dorris
55 Urban Indians by Roberta Fiske-Rusciano
56 Sex, Class, and Race Intersections: Visions of Women of Color by Carol Lee Sanchez
57 Crimes Against Humanity by Ward Churchill
58 Beyond Stereotyping by Daniela Gioseffi
59 Anti-Semitism in the United States by Robert Cherry
60 Seeing More Than Black and White by Elizabeth Martinez
61 "The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria" by Judith Ortiz Cofer
62 Behind Barbed Wire by John Hersey
63 A Personal Narrative by Susan Shimizu Taira
64 Asian Americans Battle "Model Minority" Stereotype by Robert Daseler
65 Inter-Racial Violence: Conflicts of Class and Culture by Michael Laslett
66 "Jim Crow" Law by Benjamin Quarles
67 Jim Crow Revived in Cyberspace by Greg Palast and Martin Luther King III
68 The Negro a Beast...or in the Image of God by Earl Ofari Hutchinson
69 Emmett Louis Till, 1941-1955 by Southern Poverty Law Center
70 As Media Furor Subsides, Jasper Sorts Out Its Future by Kyle Johnson
71 Terror in Our Neighborhoods by The Klanwatch Project of the Southern Poverty Law Center
72 Real Minority, Media Majority by Salon Muwakkil
73 Subtle vs. Overt Racism by David K. Shipler
74 Blacks Feel Indignities by Robert Anthony Watts
Part VI Power and Sexism	292	(53)
75 Manhood on the Mat by Jackson Katz and Sut Jhally
76 The Conservative Case for Gay Marriage by Andrew Sullivan
77 How the Entertainment Industry Degrades Women by Martha Burk and Kirsten Shaw
78 Gender Warriors Fight the Wrong Battle by Laura Sessions Stepp
79 Losing a Church, Keeping the Faith by Andrew Sullivan
80 Foul Play by Kathleen Sharp
81 Reincarnating Freud by Susana McCollom
82 Our Bodies, Their Selves by Katrine Ames
83 The Nature of the Beast by Anita Hill
84 Like a Smack in the Face: Pornography in the Trades by Barbara Trees
85 Bad Sports by Mariah Burton Nelson
86 A More Hidden Crime: Adolescent Battered Women by Nancy Worcester
87 Why Doesn't She Just Leave? by Clarethia Ellerbe
88 Rape and Sexual Assault by James A. Doyle
89 Fraternities of Fear by Kathleen Hirsch
90 "The Rape" of Mr. Smith by Unknown
91 Forbidden Fruit by Anne Finger
92 Certain Words Can Trip Up AIDS Grants, Scientists Say by Erica Goode
93 Mothers of Convention by Lindsy Van Gelder
94 What's Fair in Love and War by Randy Shilts
Part VII Power and Classism	345	(70)
95 Imagine a Country by Holly Sklar
96 The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison by Jeffrey H. Reiman
97 The Great Divide by David Moberg
98 Unprotected Work by Christopher D. Cook
99 Normalizing Poverty by Celine-Marie Pascale
100 Institutionalized Discrimination by Robert Cherry
101 Jury Whops Insurer by Leslie Brown
102 Single Mothers and Welfare by Ellen L. Bassuk, Angela Browne, and John C. Buckner
103 The Gestapo of Welfare Reform by Lucky Jean
104 Persistent Welfare Stereotypes by Renu Nahata
105 A Way Out by Rita Henley Jensen
106 The Root Causes of Homelessness in American Cities by Doug A. Timmer, D. Stanley Eitzen, and Kathryn D. Talley
107 Sidewalk Mercenaries vs. Homeless by Christian Parenti
CHANGE
Part VIII Taking Action	415	(1)
108 Affirmative Action: The Sequel by Orlando Patterson
109 Diversity and Its Discontents by Arturo Madrid
110 Choosing Disability by Laura Hershey
111 Breakfast at Perkins by Derek Schork
112 The Push for Power by Eloise Salholz
113 Going Public with Our Vision by Charlotte Bunch
114 A Manifesto for Men by Andrew Kimbrell
115 Lesbian Teen Sues District for Bias by Peter Y. Hong
116 The Campus Environment for Gay and Lesbian Life by John D'Emilio
117 Resistance to Change by Kathleen Ryan
118 The Campus Climate for Gay Students by Robert A. Rhoads
119 Psychologists Find Ways to Break Racism's Hold by Daniel Coleman
120 Battered Women by Cynthia Diehm and Margo Ross
121 Freedom for the Thought We Hate by Gerald Gunther
122 Acknowledging the Victims' Cry by Charles R. Lawrence III
Part IX Change Makers	468	(1)
123 Victory at Arnot by Mary Harris "Mother" Jones
124 The Organizer's Tale by Cesar Chavez
125 Workers Demand Rights by Louise Palmer
126 Free at Last by Southern Poverty Law Center
127 The Movement by Anne Moody
128 Freedom Is a Constant Struggle by Muriel Tillinghast
129 "Don't Tell Us It Can't Be Done" by Michael Ryan
130 Saving Native Lands by Valerie Taliman
131 Cecilia Fire Thunder: She Inspires Her People by Ann Davis
132 How I Changed the Governor's Mind by Renee La Couture Tulloch
133 Friends of Justice: Take Heart by Deb Price
134 Negotiating Passion on Campus by Bonnie Pfister
135 A Daughter's Story by Dawn Atkins
136 A Mother's Story by Mary E. Atkins
Part X Race, Class, and Gender After 9/11	509	(1)
137 Flag Raising at Ground Zero by Iowa State Daily
138 Immigrant Families Condemn Racial Targeting by Tram Nguyen
139 America's Challenge: Domestic Security, Civil Liberties, and National Unity After September 11 by Muzaffar A. Chishti, Doris Meissner, Demetrios G. Papademetriou, Jay Peterzell, Michael J. Wishnie, and Stephen W. Yale-Loehr
140 Feminist Perspectives on 9/11 by J. Ann Tickner
141 Seeing Islam as "Evil" Faith, Evangelicals Seek Converts by Laurie Goodstein
142 "Empty Seats in the Lifeboat": 9/11 Stalls Refugees by Donovan Slack
143 Working Class Women as War Heroes by Farai Chideya
CREDITS	C1
INDEX	I1