Race, Class, and Gender : An Anthology

by Margaret L. Andersen; Patricia Hill Collins

• ISBN13: 9780534528799
• ISBN10: 0534528791
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-12-02
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(10)
I Shifting the Center and Reconstructing Knowledge	11	(56)
SHIFTING THE CENTER	21	(46)
1 Missing People and Others: Joining Together to Expand the Circle	21	(5)
Arturo Madrid
2 La Guera	26	(8)
Cherrie Moraga
3 Report from the Bahamas	34	(9)
June Jordan
4 Angry Women Are Building: Issues and Struggles Facing American Indian Women Today	43	(5)
Paula Gunn Allen
5 Oppression	48	(4)
Marilyn Frye
6 A Different Mirror	52	(15)
Ronald T. Takaki
II Conceptualizing Race, Class, and Gender	67	(150)
RACE AND RACISM	89	(37)
7 Something About the Subject Makes It Hard to Name	89	(5)
Gloria Yamato
8 White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences Through Work in Women's Studies	94	(12)
Peggy McIntosh
9 The Other Americans	106	(6)
Gabrielle Sandor
10 Seeing More Than Black & White: Lations, Racism, and the Cultural Divides	112	(8)
Elizabeth Martinez
11 Race Matters	120	(6)
Cornel West
CLASS AND INEQUALITY	126	(49)
12 Tired of Playing Monopoly?	126	(10)
Donna Langston
13 The Plight of Black Men	136	(11)
Michael Dyson
14 The Silenced Majority: Why the Average Working Person Has Disappeared from American Media and Culture	147	(2)
Barbara Ehrenreich
15 Family Matters, Work Matters? Poverty Among Women of Color and White Women	149	(12)
Lisa Catanzarite
Vilma Oritz
16 Moving Up with Kin and Community: Upward Social Mobility for Black and White Women	161	(14)
Elizabeth Higginbotham
Lynn Weber
GENDER AND SEXISM	175	(42)
17 Commonalities and Differences	175	(6)
Johnnetta B. Cole
18 Understanding and Fighting Sexism: A Call to Men	181	(6)
Peter Blood
Alan Tuttle
George Lakey
19 Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference	187	(8)
Audre Lorde
20 Masculinities and Athletic Careers	195	(14)
Michael Messner
21 Asian American Women: Not For Sale	209	(8)
Tracy Lai
III Rethinking Institutions	217	(172)
WORK AND ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION	233	(37)
22 Economic Restructuring and Systems of Inequality	233	(5)
Maxine Baca Zinn
D. Stanley Eitzen
23 Shortchanged: Restructuring Women's Work	238	(9)
Teresa Amott
24 The Gap Between Striving and Achieving: The Case of Asian American Women	247	(10)
Deborah Woo
25 The Latino Population: The Importance of Economic Restructuring	257	(8)
Joan Moore
Raquel Pinderhughes
26 Working Poor, Working Hard	265	(5)
Katherine Newman
FAMILIES	270	(58)
27 Our Mothers' Grief: Racial-Ethnic Women and the Maintenance of Families	270	(22)
Bonnie Thornton Dill
28 The Diversity of American Families	292	(6)
Eleanor Palo Stoller
Rose Campbell Gibson
29 Are "Absent Fathers" Really Absent?: Urban Adolescent Girls Speak Out About Their Fathers	298	(13)
Niobe Way
Helena Stauber
30 Undocumented Latinas: The New "Employable Mothers"	311	(8)
Grace Chang
31 Migration and Vietnamese American Women: Remaking Ethnicity	319	(9)
Nazli Kibria
EDUCATION	328	(29)
32 Can Education Eliminate Race, Class, and Gender Inequality?	328	(13)
Rosyln Arlin Mickelson
Stephen Samuel Smith
33 Canto, Locura y Poesia	341	(9)
Olivia Castellano
34 Reminiscence of a Post-Integration Kid: Or, Where Have We Come Since Then?	350	(3)
Gaye Williams
35 Title IX: Does Help for Women Come at the Expense of African Americans?	353	(4)
Craig T. Greenlee
THE STATE AND SOCIAL POLCY	357	(32)
36 The First Americans: American Indians	357	(7)
C. Matthew Snipp
37 Thoughts on Class, Race, and Prison	364	(4)
Alan Berkman
Tim Blunk
38 It's a Family Affair: Women, Poverty, and Welfare	368	(4)
Randy Albelda
Chris Tilly
39 Aid to Dependent Corporations: Exposing Federal Handouts to the Wealthy	372	(5)
Chuck Collins
40 The Brutality of the Bureaucracy	377	(5)
Theresa Funiciello
41 Tracing the Politics of Affirmative Action	382	(7)
Linda Faye Williams
IV Analyzing Social Issues	389	(118)
AMERICAN IDENTITY AND CULTURE	403	(34)
42 Optional Ethnicities: For Whites Only?	403	(10)
Mary Waters
43 Crimes Against Humanity	413	(8)
Ward Churchill
44 You're Short, Besides!	421	(7)
Sucheng Chan
45 If Men Could Menstruate	428	(2)
Gloria Steinem
46 From "Kike" to "Jap": How Misogyny, Anti-Semitism, and Racism Construct the "Jewish American Princess"	430	(7)
Evelyn Torton Beck
SEXUALITY	437	(33)
47 A New Politics of Sexuality	437	(5)
June Jordan
48 Where Has Gay Liberation Gone? An Interview with Barbara Smith	442	(4)
Amy Gluckman
Betsy Reed
49 The Beauty Myth	446	(6)
Naomi Wolf
50 Maiden Voyage: Excursion into Sexuality and Identity Politics in Asian America	452	(9)
Dana Y. Takagi
51 Getting Off on Feminism	461	(9)
Jason Schultz
VIOLENCE AND SOCIAL CONTROL	470	(37)
52 More Power Than We Want: Masculine Sexuality and Violence	470	(6)
Bruce Kokopeli
George Lakey
53 The Police and the Black Male	476	(5)
Elijah Anderson
54 Korean Americans vs. African Americans: Conflict and Construction	481	(9)
Sumi K. Cho
55 Fraternities and Rape on Campus	490	(17)
Patricia Yancey Martin
Robert A. Hummer
V Making a Difference	507
POLITICAL ACTIVISM	517
56 Coalition Politics: Turning the Century	517	(7)
Bernice Johnson Reagon
57 Boys and Girls of (Union) Summer	524	(5)
Marc Cooper
58 From the Ground Up	529	(5)
Charon Asetoyer
59 Taking Multicultural, Antiracist Education Seriously: An Interview with Enid Lee	534	(6)
Barbara Miner
60 Women of Color on the Front Line	540	(12)
Celene Krauss
61 Having the Tools at Hand: Building Successful Multicultural Social Justice Organizations	552
John Anner