Race, Class, and Gender An Anthology

by Andersen, Margaret L.; Hill Collins, Patricia

• ISBN13: 9780495006893
• ISBN10: 0495006890
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-04-25
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

RACE, CLASS, AND, GENDER, includes many interdisciplinary readings. The author's selection of very accessible articles 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 also provides conceptual grounding in understanding race, class, and gender; has a strong historical and sociological perspective; and is further strengthened by conceptual introductions by the authors. Students will find the readings engaging and accessible, but may gain the most from the introduction sections that highlight key points and relate the essential concepts. Included in the collection of readings are narratives aimed at building empathy, and articles on important social issues such as prison, affirmative action, poverty, immigration, and racism, among other topics.

Table of Contents

PREFACE	xi
ABOUT THE EDITORS	xix
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS	xxi
I WHY RACE, CLASS, AND GENDER STILL MATTER	1	(59)
Margaret L. Andersen and Patricia Hill Collins
1 Missing People and Others: Joining Together to Expand the Circle	17	(5)
Arturo Madrid
2 La Güera	22	(7)
Cherde Moraga
3 Oppression	29	(3)
Marilyn Frye
4 A Different Mirror	32	(13)
Ronald T. Takaki
5 From a Native Daughter	45	(7)
Haunani-Kay Trask
6 Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference	52	(8)
Audre Lorde
Suggested Readings for Part I	60	(1)
InfoTrac College Edition: Search Terms	60	(1)
InfoTrac College Edition: Bonus Reading	60	(1)
Companion Website	60	(1)
II SYSTEMS OF POWER AND INEQUALITY	61	(206)
Margaret L. Andersen and Patricia Hill Collins
RACE AND RACISM	91	(1)
7 Racism without "Racists"	91	(1)
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
8 White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack	98	(1)
Peggy McIntosh
9 Of Race and Risk	103	(1)
Patricia J. Williams
10 Seeing More than Black and White	105	(6)
Elizabeth Martinez
11 What White Supremacists Taught a Jewish Scholar about Identity	111	(5)
Abby L. Ferber
CLASS AND INEQUALITY	116	(31)
12 Growing Gulf between Rich and Rest of Us	116	(2)
Holly Sklar
13 Tired of Playing Monopoly?	118	(9)
Donna Langston
14 The Hidden Cost of Being African American	127	(9)
Thomas M. Shapiro
15 Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril among the Black Middle Class	136	(7)
Mary Pattillo-McCoy
16 Broken Levees, Unbroken Barriers	143	(4)
Jason De Parle
GENDER AND SEXISM	147	(43)
17 Sex and Gender through the Prism of Difference	147	(9)
Maxine Baca Zinn, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, and Michael Messner
18 Ideological Racism and Cultural Resistance: Constructing Our Own Images	156	(10)
Yen Le Espiritu
19 A White Woman of Color	166	(6)
Julia Álvarez
20 Masculinities and Athletic Careers	172	(13)
Michael Messner
21 Toward a Theory of Disability and Gender	185	(5)
Thomas J. Gerschick
ETHNICITY AND NATIONALITY	190	(38)
22 Is This a White Country, or What?	190	(8)
Lillian Rubin
23 Optional Ethnicities: For Whites Only?	198	(9)
Mary C. Waters
24 Salsa and Ketchup: Transnational Migrants Straddle Two Worlds	207	(7)
Peggy Levitt
25 "Mexicanness" in New York: Migrants Seek New Place in Old Racial Order	214	(6)
Robert Smith
26 Migration and Vietnamese American Women: Remaking Ethnicity	220	(8)
Nazli Kibria
SEXUALITY AND HETEROSEXISM	228	(55)
27 "You Talkin' to Me?"	228	(6)
Jean Kilbourne
28 Where Has Gay Liberation Gone?: An Interview with Barbara Smith	234	(4)
Amy Gluckman and Betsy Reed
29 Globalizing Sex Workers' Rights	238	(9)
Kamala Kempadoo
30 Black Sexuality: The Taboo Subject	247	(5)
Cornel West
31 The Invention of Heterosexuality	252	(13)
Jonathan Ned Katz
Suggested Readings for Part II	265	(1)
InfoTrac College Edition: Search Terms	265	(1)
InfoTrac College Edition: Bonus Reading	265	(1)
Companion Website	265	(2)
III THE STRUCTURE OF SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS	267	(214)
Margaret L. Andersen and Patricia Hill Collins
WORK AND ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION	283	(38)
32 Race, Class, Gender, and Women's Works	283	(9)
Teresa Amott and Julie Matthaei
33 The Indignities of Unemployment	292	(2)
Kenneth W. Brown
34 "Soft" Skills and Race	294	(9)
Philip Moss and Chris Tilly
35 The Invisible Poor	303	(9)
Katherine S. Newman
36 Doméstica	312	(9)
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo
FAMILIES	321	(44)
37 Our Mothers' Grief: Racial-Ethnic Women and the Maintenance of Families	321	(14)
Bonnie Thornton Dill
38 Navigating Interracial Borders: Black-White Couples and Their Social Worlds	335	(8)
Erica Chito Childs
39 Straight Is to Gay As Family Is to No Family	343	(5)
Kath Weston
40 Unequal Childhoods	348	(10)
Annette Lareau
41 Chappals and Gym Shorts: An Indian Muslim Woman in the Land of Oz	358	(7)
Almas Sayeed
MEDIA AND CULTURE	365	(39)
42 Racist Stereotyping in the English Language	365	(11)
Robert B. Moore
43 Crimes against Humanity	376	(8)
Ward Churchill
44 Media Magic: Making Class Invisible	384	(9)
Gregory Mantsios
45 The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria	393	(5)
Judith Ortiz Cofer
46 Gladiators, Gazelles, and Groupies: Basketball Love and Loathing	398	(6)
Julianne Malveaux
HEALTH AND SOCIAL WELFARE	404	(38)
47 Can Education Eliminate Race, Class, and Gender Inequality?	404	(9)
Roslyn Arlin Mickelson and Stephen Samuel Smith
48 Welfare Reform, Family Hardship, and Women of Color	413	(9)
Linda Burnham
49 Aid to Dependent Corporations: Exposing Federal Handouts to the Wealthy	422	(4)
Chuck Collins
50 Race, Poverty and Disability: Three Strikes and You're Out! or Are You?	426	(7)
Pamela Block, Fabricio E. Balcazar, and Christopher B. Keys
51 Just Choices: Women of Color, Reproductive Health, and Human Rights	433	(9)
Loretta J. Ross, Sarah L. Brownlee, Dazon Dixon Diallo, Luz Rodriquez, and SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Project
STATE INSTITUTIONS AND VIOLENCE	442	(51)
52 The First Americans: American Indians	442	(8)
C. Matthew Snipp
53 Policing the National Body: Sex, Race, and Criminalization	450	(9)
Jael Silliman
54 Military Mirrors a Working-Class America	459	(9)
David M. Halbfinger and Steven A. Holmes
55 Rape, Racism, and the Law	468	(7)
Jennifer Wriggins
56 How Safe Is America?	475	(4)
Desiree Taylor
Suggested Readings for Part III	479	(1)
InfoTrac College Edition: Search Terms	479	(1)
InfoTrac College Edition: Bonus Reading	479	(1)
Companion Website	480	(1)
IV SOCIAL CHANGE AND SITES OF CHANGE	481	(86)
Margaret L. Andersen and Patricia Hill Collins
SITES OF CHANGE	493	(42)
57 The Starbucks Paradox	493	(6)
Kim Feltner
58 Interrupting Historical Patterns: Bridging Race and Gender Gaps between Senior White Men and Other Organizational Groups	499	(12)
Nancie Zane
59 Women of Color on the Front Line	511	(11)
Celene Krauss
60 "Whosoever" Is Welcome Here: An Interview with Reverend Edwin C. Sanders II	522	(8)
Gary David Comstock
61 Silent Covenants	530	(5)
Derrick Bell
PROCESSES OF CHANGE	535	(32)
62 How the New Working Class Can Transform Urban America	535	(8)
Robin D. G. Kelley
63 From the Ground Up	543	(4)
Charon Asetoyer
64 Manifesta	547	(3)
Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards
65 What Does an Ally Do?	550	(7)
Paul Kivel
66 Can I Get a Witness?: Testimony from a Hip Hop Feminist	557	(8)
Shani Jamila
Suggested Readings for Part IV	565	(1)
InfoTrac College Edition: Search Terms	565	(1)
InfoTrac College Edition: Bonus Reading	565	(1)
Companion Website	566	(1)
INDEX	567