Race, Class, and Gender: An Anthology

by Andersen, Margaret L.

• ISBN13: 9780534568924
• ISBN10: 0534568920
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-08-01
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

Included in RACE, CLASS, AND GENDER are 73 interdisciplinary readings. The authors provide articles that are highly readable, articles that show how race, class, and gender shape people's experiences, and help students to see the issues in an analytic, as well as descriptive way. The book provides conceptual grounding in understanding race, class, and gender; it has a strong historical and sociological perspective; and it is strengthened by conceptual introductions by the authors. Students find the readings engaging and accessible. Included in the collection are narratives aimed at building empathy, and articles on social issues such as welfare reform, affirmative action, poverty, immigration, racism, etc. The past editions have continually been top-sellers.

Table of Contents

Preface	xiii
About the Editors	xix
About the Contributors	xx
Introduction	1	(9)
Suggested Readings	10	(1)
Info Trac College Edition	11	(2)
I Shifting the Center and Reconstructing Knowledge	13	(54)
Introduction	13	(7)
Suggested Readings	20	(1)
InfoTrac College Edition	21	(2)
Shifting the Center	23	(1)
Missing People and Others: Joining Together to Expand the Circle	23	(5)
Arturo Madrid
La Guera	28	(7)
Cherrie Moraga
Report from the Bahamas	35	(9)
June Jordan
Angry Women Are Building: Issues and Struggles Facing American Indian Women Today	44	(4)
Paula Gunn Allen
Oppression	48	(4)
Marilyn Frye
A Different Mirror	52	(15)
Ronald T. Takaki
II Conceptualizing Race, Class, and Gender	67	(146)
Introduction	67	(21)
Suggested Readings	88	(1)
InfoTrac College Edition	89	(1)
Race And Racism	90	(1)
Something about the Subject Makes It Hard to Name	90	(5)
Gloria Yamato
White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences through Work in Women's Studies (1988)	95	(11)
Peggy McIntosh
Of Race and Risk	106	(2)
Patricia J. Williams
Seeing More Than Black & White: Latinos, Racism, and the Cultural Divides	108	(7)
Elizabeth Martinez
What White Supremacists Taught a Jewish Scholar about Identity	115	(4)
Abby L. Ferber
Race Matters	119	(6)
Cornel West
Class and Inequality	125	(1)
Tired of Playing Monopoly?	125	(9)
Donna Langston
Wealth Matters	134	(5)
Dalton Conley
Poverty as Race, Power, and Wealth	139	(4)
James Jennings
Louis Kushnick
The Silenced Majority: Why the Average Working Person Has Disappeared from American Media and Culture	143	(3)
Barbara Ehrenreich
The Plight of Black Men	146	(10)
Michael Dyson
Moving Up with Kin and Community: Upward Social Mobility for Black and White Women	156	(12)
Elizabeth Higginbotham
Lynn Weber
Gender and Sexism	168	(1)
Gender through the Prism of Difference	168	(9)
Maxine Baca Zinn
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo
Michael A. Messner
Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference	177	(8)
Audre Lorde
Understanding and Fighting Sexism: A Call to Men	185	(6)
Peter Blood
Alan Tuttle
George Lakey
Ideological Racism and Cultural Resistance: Constructing Our Own Images	191	(10)
Yen Le Espiritu
``J.A.P.''-Slapping: The Politics of Scapegoating	201	(4)
Ruth Atkin
Adrienne Rich
A New Vision of Masculinity	205	(8)
Cooper Thompson
III Rethinking Institutions	213	(192)
Introduction	213	(14)
Suggested Readings	227	(1)
InfoTrac College Edition	228	(1)
Work and Economic Transformation	229	(1)
Economic Restructuring and Systems of Inequality at Century's End	229	(5)
Maxine Baca Zinn
D. Stanley Eitzen
Race, Class, Gender, and Women's Works	234	(9)
Teresa Amott
Julie Matthaei
The Gap between Striving and Achieving: The Case of Asian American Women	243	(8)
Deborah Woo
The Latino Population: The Importance of Economic Restructuring	251	(8)
Joan Moore
Raquel Pinderhughes
Working Poor, Working Hard	259	(4)
Katherine Newman
The Armstrongs: An Oral History of a Homeless American Family	263	(5)
Steven VanderStaay
Families	268	(1)
Our Mothers' Grief: Racial-Ethnic Women and the Maintenance of Families	268	(21)
Bonnie Thornton Dill
The Diversity of American Families	289	(7)
Eleanor Palo Stoller
Rose Campbell Gibson
Countering the Conspiracy to Ignore Black Girls	296	(8)
Robin D. G. Kelley
Racial Safety and Cultural Maintenance: The Child Care Concerns of Employed Mothers of Color	304	(10)
Lynet Uttal
Migration and Vietnamese American Women: Remaking Ethnicity	314	(8)
Nazli Kibria
Cultural Institutions and The Production Of Ideas	322	(1)
Racist Stereotyping in the English Language	322	(11)
Robert B. Moore
Media Magic: Making Class Invisible	333	(9)
Gregory Mantsios
The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria	342	(5)
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Masculinities and Athletic Careers	347	(14)
Michael Messner
My Problem with Multi-cultural Education	361	(4)
John Garvey
If Men Could Menstruate	365	(3)
Gloria Steinem
State Institutions and Social Policy	368	(1)
The First Americans: American Indians	368	(8)
C. Matthew Snipp
Can Education Eliminate Race, Class, and Gender Inequality?	376	(13)
Roslyn Arlin Mickelson
Stephen Samuel Smith
The Shredded Net: The End of Welfare as We Knew It	389	(6)
Valerie Polakow
Aid to Dependent Corporations: Exposing Federal Handouts to the Wealthy	395	(5)
Chuck Collins
Thoughts on Class, Race, and Prison	400	(5)
Alan Berkman
Tim Blunk
IV Analyzing Social Issues	405	(126)
Introduction	405	(12)
Suggested Readings	417	(1)
InfoTrac College Edition	417	(2)
American Identities	419	(1)
``Is This a White Country, or What?''	419	(8)
Lillian Rubin
Black Hispanics: The Ties That Bind	427	(3)
Vivian Brady
Optional Ethnicities: For Whites Only?	430	(9)
Mary C. Waters
Crimes against Humanity	439	(8)
Ward Churchill
You're Short, Besides!	447	(6)
Sucheng Chan
Time to Look and Listen	453	(3)
Magdoline Asfahani
Sexuality	456	(1)
The Gender of Sexuality	456	(10)
Pepper Schwartz
Virginia Rutter
A New Politics of Sexuality	466	(4)
June Jordan
Where Has Gay Liberation Gone?: An Interview with Barbara Smith	470	(4)
Amy Gluckman
Betsy Reed
The Beauty Myth	474	(6)
Naomi Wolf
Maiden Voyage: Excursion into Sexuality and Identity Politics in Asian America	480	(8)
Dana Y. Takagi
Getting Off on Feminism	488	(9)
Jason Schultz
Violence and Social Control	497	(1)
The Harm That Has No Name: Street Harassment, Embodiment, and African American Women	497	(11)
Deirdre E. Davis
More Power Than We Want: Masculine Sexuality and Violence	508	(6)
Bruce Kokopeli
George Lakey
The Police and the Black Male	514	(5)
Elijah Anderson
Korean Americans vs. African Americans: Conflict and Construction	519	(8)
Sumi K. Cho
Where Race and Gender Meet: Racism, Hate Crimes, and Pornography	527	(4)
Helen Zia
V Making a Difference	531	(54)
Introduction	531	(7)
Suggested Readings	538	(1)
InfoTrac College Edition	539	(1)
Coalition Politics: Turning the Century	540	(6)
Bernice Johnson Reagon
The Boys and Girls of (Union) Summer	546	(6)
Marc Cooper
From the Ground Up	552	(4)
Charon Asetoyer
Taking Multicultural, Antiracist Education Seriously: An Interview with Enid Lee	556	(6)
Barbara Miner
Women of Color on the Front Line	562	(11)
Celene Krauss
Having the Tools at Hand: Building Successful Multicultural Social Justice Organizations	573	(12)
John Anner
Index	585