Intersections of Gender, Race, and Class Readings for a Changing Landscape

by Segal, Marcia Texler; Martinez, Theresa A.

• ISBN13: 9780195330670
• ISBN10: 0195330676
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-09-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This incisive, accessible collection of readings is arranged to highlight and underscore some of the most intriguing and cutting-edge thinking on the discussion of gender, race, and class. While other anthologies often separate race, class, and gender into distinct components, this anthology frames each reading within an analysis of all three cultural forces. Additionally, the intersection of sexuality with gender, race, and class is highlighted throughout the text. A collection of work by both U.S. and international writers, the text begins with a historical section that brings the past into contemporary focus. Section Two features personal narratives that make research and theoretical material immediately relevant to students. Other sections address family and community relationships, institutions, privilege, activism, and new sociological perspectives. Brief introductions frame each reading, and discussion questions spark student interest and enhance their understanding of the material.

Table of Contents

About the Editors	p. ix
About the Contributors	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Subject Listing of Topics Covered by Chapter	p. 5
Framing the Past
The Lady and the Mill Girl: Changes in the Status of Women in the Age of Jackson	p. 7
Why Irish Became Domestics and Italians and Jews Did Not	p. 16
Society of Strangers	p. 23
Congressional Record-House (67 Cong., 2nd Sess.)	p. 31
'Gone With the Wind': The Invisibility of Racism in American History	p. 36
The Logic of Nonstandard English	p. 57
Double-Consciousness and Mestiza Consciousness Raising: Linking Du Bois and Anzaldua	p. 69
Story Sharing
1965	p. 80
A Letter to Harvey Milk	p. 89
Background (From Tea That Burns: A Family Memoir of Chinatown)	p. 98
He Defies You Still: The Memoirs of a Sissy	p. 109
With No Immediate Cause	p. 114
Working in Other People's Houses	p. 116
Woman Hollering Creek	p. 123
Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit	p. 131
From the Margins	p. 137
Long Hours, Starvation Wages	p. 145
Report from the Bahamas	p. 153
Framing Family and Community Relationships
The Gendered Politics and Violence of Structural Adjustment: A View From Jamaica	p. 161
Asymmetries: Women and Men Talking at Cross-Purposes	p. 175
Cuban Jewish Women in Miami: A Triple Identity	p. 184
'Not All Differences Are Created Equal': Multiple Jeopardy in a Gendered Organization	p. 194
When You're a Credit to Your Race, the Bill Will Come Due: O. J. Simpson and Our Trial by Fire	p. 209
Breaking the Silence	p. 220
In the Closet	p. 222
Framing Institutions
Stories From the Field	p. 239
Schools Struggle Shielding Gay Kids	p. 249
Gender and Class Stereotypes: A Comparison of U.S. and Taiwanese Magazine Advertisements	p. 251
Race and Criminalization: Black Americans and the Punishment Industry	p. 265
A Higher Power of Their Understanding: Cheyenne Women and Their Religious Roles	p. 274
Religious Identity and Mobility	p. 281
What's in a Name?	p. 285
The Return of the Sweatshop	p. 289
Recasting our Understanding of Gender and Work During Global Restructuring	p. 300
Legal Scholars of Gay Rights Offer Strategies to Combat the 'Apartheid of the Closet'	p. 318
SES, Race/Ethnicity, and Health	p. 323
The Illness Experience Among Mexico City's Older Adults: The Effect of Gender, Class, and Race/Ethnicity	p. 336
On Privilege
White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences Through Work in Women's Studies	p. 344
White Views of Civil Rights: Color Blindness and Equal Opportunity	p. 353
Growing Up White: The Social Geography of Race	p. 362
Women's Employment Among Blacks, Whites, and Three Groups of Latinas: Do More Privileged Women Have Higher Employment?	p. 368
Rethinking Official Measures of Poverty: Consideration of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender	p. 380
Characteristics of the Foreign Born in the United States: Results From Census 2000	p. 390
Race and Ethnicity: Images of Difference in South Africa	p. 393
The Haves, The Have-Notes	p. 403
On Activist Thinking and Activism
La conciencia de la mestiza/Towards a New Consciousness	p. 405
A Place in the Rainbow: Theorizing Lesbian and Gay Culture	p. 411
Women of Color on the Front Line	p. 428
Angry Women Are Building: Issues and Struggles Facing American Indian Women Today	p. 437
The Political Is Personal: The Influence of White Supremacy on White Antiracists' Personal Relationships	p. 441
'If It Wasn't for the Women...': African American Women, Community Work, and Social Change	p. 453
Liberia's Female Warriors-Fierce, Feared	p. 464
The Heterosexual Questionnaire	p. 467
On New Perspectives
Race Lessons	p. 469
Lunch With My 'Enemy': Exploring the Roots of Ethnic Strife	p. 477
'New Racism,' Color-Blind Racism, and the Future of Whiteness in America	p. 483
Buried Alive: The Concept of Race in Science	p. 497
Playing in the Gender Transgression Zone: Race, Class, and Hegemonic Masculinity in Middle Childhood	p. 501
Puerto Rican Wannabes: Sexual Spectacle and the Marking of Race, Class, and Gender Boundaries	p. 517
All Men Are Not Created Equal: Asian Men in U.S. History	p. 532
LGBT Parents and Their Children	p. 542
Color-Blind Racism and Post-Feminism: The Contemporary Politics of Inequality	p. 551
Systems of Oppression: Ten Principles	p. 557
Broken Levees, Unbroken Barriers	p. 565
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