Rethinking the Color Line: Readings in Race and Ethnicity

by Gallagher, Charles A.

• ISBN13: 9780078026638
• ISBN10: 0078026636
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-11-10
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Summary

User-friendly without sacrificing intellectual or theoretical rigor, this anthology of current research examines contemporary issues and explores new approaches to the study of race and ethnic relations. The featured readings effectively engage students by helping them understand theories and concepts. Active learning in the classroom is encouraged while providing relevance for students from all ethnic, cultural, and economic backgrounds. The fifth edition features ten new articles on such timely topics as: The U.S. Census' changing definition of race and ethnicity Race-based disparities in health Racial and gender discrimination among racial minorities and women Being Arab and American How social control maintains racial inequality The increase in black and brown incarceration How racial bias may affect the use of DNA to locate suspects of crimes How derogatory ethnic and racial images are created and disseminated by the media The sexualization of African American women through the use of gender stereotypes The portrayal of light- and dark-skinned biracial characters

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xi
Introduction Rethinking the Color Line: Understanding How Boundaries Shift	p. 1
Sorting by colour: Why We Attach Meaning to Race	p. 5
Race and Ethnicity: Sociohistoric Constructions	p. 7
How Our Skins Got Their Color	p. 7
Drawing the Color Line	p. 9
Racial Formations	p. 17
Defining Race and Ethnicity	p. 22
Racialized Social System Approach to Racism	p. 32
Seeing the Big Picture: The Social Construction of Race, 1790-2000	p. 38
Race and Ethnicity: Contemporary Socioeconomic Trends	p. 39
Understanding Racial-Ethnic Disparities in Health: Sociological Contributions	p. 39
Seeing the Big Picture: How Race Can Be Hazardous to Your Health	p. 48
Transformative Assets, the Racial Wealth Gap, and the American Dream	p. 49
Seeing the Big Picture: The Color of Money	p. 52
Race as Chameleon: How the Idea of Race Changes over Time and Place	p. 53
Defining Race: Comparative Perspectives	p. 53
Seeing the Big Picture: What Was Your Race in 1890?	p. 63
A Tour of Indian Peoples and Indian Lands	p. 63
Seeing the Big Picture: From Riches to the "Res" (Reservation System)	p. 78
Asian American Panethnicity: Contemporary National and Transnational Possibilities	p. 79
Seeing the Big Picture: Panethnic Fortunes: Riches and Rags	p. 86
Beyond Black and White: Remaking Race in America	p. 86
Seeing the Big Picture: Check All That Apply (Finally!): The Institutionalization of Mixed Race Identity	p. 91
Color-Blind America: Fact, Fantasy, or Our Future?	p. 92
Color-Blind Privilege: The Social and Political Functions of Erasing the Color Line in Post-Race America	p. 92
The Ideology of Color Blindness	p. 101
Seeing the Big Picture: Color-Blind or Blind to Color?	p. 105
The Possibility of a New Racial Hierarchy in the Twenty-First-Century United States	p. 11
Prejudice, Discrimination, and Racism	p. 115
Understanding Racism	p. 117
Race Prejudice as a Sense of Group Position	p. 117
Seeing the Big Picture: Racism: Group Position or Individual Belief?	p. 122
Race and Gender Discrimination: Contemporary Trends	p. 122
Discrimination and the American Creed	p. 127
How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in America	p. 134
Seeing the Big Picture: America's New Public Enemy?	p. 138
The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: Racialized Social Democracy	p. 139
Seeing the Big Picture: Race as an Investment	p. 147
Laissez-Faire Racism, Racial Inequality, and die Role of the Social Sciences	p. 148
How Space Gets Raced	p. 158
Residential Segregation and Neighborhood Conditions in U.S. Metropolitan Areas	p. 158
Seeing the Big Picture: How Integrated Is Your Neighborhood?	p. 175
The Code of the Streets	p. 116
Environmental Justice in the 21st Century: Race Still Matters	p. 184
Race, Religion, and the Color Line (Or Is That the Color Wall?)	p. 195
Why Are There No Supermarkets in My Neighborhood? The Long Search for Fresh Fruit, Produce, and Healthy Food	p. 204
Seeing the Big Picture: Urban Food Deserts: Race, Health, and the Lack of "Real" Food	p. 208
Racialized Opportunity in Social Institutions	p. 209
Race and Criminal Justice: Oxymoron or an American Tragedy?	p. 211
No Equal Justice: The Color of Punishment	p. 211
Seeing the Big Picture: How Race Tips the Scales of Justice	p. 217
The New Jim Crow	p. 217
Racialized Mass Incarceration: Rounding Up the Usual Suspects	p. 225
Seeing the Big Picture: The Color of Incarceration Rates	p. 230
The Mark of a Criminal Record	p. 230
Seeing the Big Picture: The Link between Race, Education, Employment, and Crime	p. 234
Using DNA for Justice: Color-blind or Biased?	p. 234
B	p. 240
Kristen v. Aisha; Brad v. Rasheed: What's in a Name and How It Affects Getting a Job	p. 240
When the Melting Pot Boils Over: The Irish, Jews, Blacks, and Koreans of New York	p. 241
Seeing the Big Picture: Who's Got the "Good" Jobs and Why	p. 249
"There's No Shame in My Game": Status and Stigma among Harlem's Working Poor	p. 249
Sweatshops in Sunset Park: A Variation of the Late-Twentieth-Century Chinese Garment Shops in New York City	p. 261
Hispanics in the American South and the Transformation of the Poultry Industry	p. 275
Seeing the Big Picture: How Is Upward Mobility Linked to Education, Occupation, and Immigration?	p. 284
Race, Representations, and the Media	p. 285
Racism and Popular Culture
The Media as a System of Racialization: Exploring Images of African American Women and the New Racism Marci Bounds Littlejield	p. 295
Black and White in Movies: Portrayals of Black-White Biracial Characters in Movies	p. 301
Seeing the Big Picture: How the Media Shapes Perceptions of Race and Occupations	p. 303
Crazy Horse Malt Liquor and Athletes: The Tenacity of Stereotypes	p. 304
Winnebagos, Cherokees, Apaches, and Dakotas: The Persistence of Stereotyping of American Indians in American Advertising and Brands	p. 304
Seeing the Big Picture: The Tomahawk Chop: Racism in Image and Action	p. 310
Sport in America: The New Racial Stereotypes	p. 311
Seeing the Big Picture: Television's Interracial Images: Some Fact, Mostly Fiction	p. 318
How America's Complexion Changes	p. 319
Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration	p. 321
The Melting Pot and the Color Line	p. 321
Seeing the Big Picture: Who Is Allowed to "Melt" in the Pot? Who Wants To?	p. 326
Who Are the Other African Americans? Contemporary African and Caribbean Immigrants in the United States	p. 327
The Arab Immigrant Experience	p. 337
Ethnic and Racial Identities of Second-Generation Black Immigrants in New York City	p. 349
Seeing the Big Picture: Is a Nonethnic Racial Identity Possible?	p. 360
Race and Romance: Blurring Boundaries	p. 361
Guess Who's Been Coming to Dinner? Trends in Interracial Marriage over the 20th Century	p. 361
Captain Kirk Kisses Lieutenant Uhura: Interracial IntimaciesùThe View from Hollywood	p. 368
Seeing the Big Picture: Love May Be Blind, but It's Not Color-Blind	p. 373
Discovering Racial Borders	p. 374
Redrawing the Color Line? The Problems and Possibilities of Multiracial Families and Group Making	p. 383
Seeing the Big Picture: Interracial Marriage and the Blurring of the Color Line	p. 392
Living with Less Racism: Strategies for Individual Action	p. 393
Policy Steps toward Closing the Gap	p. 393
Ten Things You Can Do to Improve Race Relations	p. 400
Appendix: Race by the Numbers:America's Racial Report Card	p. 403
Notes and References	p. 423
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