Race, Class and Gender: An Anthology (Non Info Trac)

by Anderson, Margaret L.

Edition:

4th

ISBN13:

9780534568924

ISBN10:

0534568920

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Paperback

Pub. Date:

8/1/2000

Publisher(s):

WADSWORTH PUB CO INC

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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.

Preface

xiii

About the Editors

xix

About the Contributors

Introduction

(9)

Suggested Readings

(1)

Info Trac College Edition

(2)

I Shifting the Center and Reconstructing Knowledge

(54)

Introduction

(7)

Suggested Readings

(1)

InfoTrac College Edition

(2)

Shifting the Center

(1)

Missing People and Others: Joining Together to Expand the Circle

(5)

Arturo Madrid

La Guera

(7)

Cherrie Moraga

Report from the Bahamas

(9)

June Jordan

Angry Women Are Building: Issues and Struggles Facing American Indian Women Today

(4)

Paula Gunn Allen

Oppression

(4)

Marilyn Frye

A Different Mirror

(15)

Ronald T. Takaki

II Conceptualizing Race, Class, and Gender

(146)

Introduction

(21)

Suggested Readings

(1)

InfoTrac College Edition

(1)

Race And Racism

(1)

Something about the Subject Makes It Hard to Name

(5)

Gloria Yamato

White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences through Work in Women's Studies (1988)

(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

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