Race, Class, and Gender An Anthology (with InfoTrac)

by Andersen, Margaret L.; Hill Collins, Patricia

• ISBN13: 9780534609030
• ISBN10: 0534609031
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-06-12
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

Included in RACE, CLASS, AND GENDER are 64 interdisciplinary readings. The authors provide very accessible 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, but may gain the most from the introduction sections that highlight key points and relate essential concepts. Included in the collection of readings are narratives aimed at building empathy, and articles on social issues such as prison, affirmative action, poverty, immigration, and racism, among other topics.

Table of Contents

Preface	xiii
About the Editors	xxi
About the Contributors	xxiii
Introduction	1	(12)
Margaret L. Andersen
Patricia Hill Collins
Suggested Readings	13	(1)
InfoTrac College Edition: Search Terms	13	(1)
InfoTrac College Edition: Bonus Reading	14	(1)
Wadsworth Sociology Resource Center: Virtual Society	14	(1)
I Shifting the Center	15	(8)
Introduction	15	(8)
Margaret L. Andersen
Patricia Hill Collins
SHIFTING THE CENTER	23	(52)
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	(3)
Marilyn Frye
A Different Mirror	51	(13)
Ronald T. Takaki
Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference	64	(11)
Audre Lorde
Thinking Further	72	(1)
Suggested Readings	72	(1)
InfoTrac College Edition: Search Terms	72	(1)
InfoTrac College Edition: Bonus Reading	72	(1)
Wadsworth Sociology Resource Center: Virtual Society	73	(2)
II Conceptualizing Race, Class, and Gender	75	(24)
Introduction	75	(24)
Margaret L. Andersen
Patricia Hill Collins
RACE AND RACISM	99	(28)
Something about the Subject Makes It Hard to Name	99	(4)
Gloria Yamato
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack	103	(5)
Peggy McIntosh
Of Race and Risk	108	(3)
Patricia J. Williams
Seeing More Than Black and White	111	(6)
Elizabeth Martinez
What White Supremacists Taught a Jewish Scholar about Identity	117	(4)
Abby L. Ferber
Race Matters	121	(6)
Cornel West
CLASS AND INEQUALITY	127	(39)
Economic Apartheid in America	127	(13)
Chuck Collins
Felice Veskel
Tired of Playing Monopoly?	140	(9)
Donna Langston
Wealth Matters	149	(5)
Dalton Conley
Poverty as Race, Power, and Wealth	154	(4)
James Jennings
Louis Kushnick
Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril among the Black Middle Class	158	(8)
Mary Pattillo-McCoy
GENDER AND SEXISM	166	(49)
Gender through the Prism of Difference	166	(9)
Maxine Baca Zinn
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo
Michael A. Messner
Ideological Racism and Cultural Resistance: Constructing Our Own Images	175	(9)
Yen Le Espiritu
A White Woman of Color	184	(6)
Julia Alvarez
Masculinities and Athletic Careers	190	(13)
Michael Messner
Just Choices: Women of Color, Reproductive Health, and Human Rights	203	(12)
Loretta J. Ross
Sarah L. Brownlee
Dazon Dixon Diallo
Luz Rodriquez
Thinking Further	213	(1)
Suggested Readings	213	(1)
InfoTrac College Edition: Search Terms	213	(1)
InfoTrac College Edition: Bonus Reading	214	(1)
Wadsworth Sociology Resource Center: Virtual Society	214	(1)
III Rethinking Institutions	215	(13)
Introduction	215	(13)
Margaret L. Andersen
Patricia Hill Collins
WORK AND ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION	228	(38)
Race, Class, Gender, and Women's Works	228	(9)
Teresa Amott
Julie Matthaei
The Indignities of Unemployment	237	(2)
Kenneth W. Brown
``Soft'' Skills and Race	239	(9)
Philip Moss
Chris Tilly
The Invisible Poor	248	(9)
Katherine S. Newman
Domestica	257	(9)
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo
FAMILIES	266	(44)
Our Mothers' Grief: Racial-Ethnic Women and the Maintenance of Families	266	(14)
Bonnie Thornton Dill
The Diversity of American Families	280	(7)
Eleanor Palo Stoller
Rose Campbell Gibson
Countering the Conspiracy to Ignore Black Girls	287	(8)
Robin D. G. Kelley
Racial Safety and Cultural Maintenance: The Child Care Concerns of Employed Mothers of Color	295	(9)
Lynet Uttal
Straight Is to Gay as Family Is to No Family	304	(6)
Kath Weston
CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS AND THE PRODUCTION OF IDEAS	310	(44)
Racist Stereotyping in the English Language	310	(11)
Robert B. Moore
Crimes against Humanity	321	(8)
Ward Churchill
Media Magic: Making Class Invisible	329	(8)
Gregory Mantsios
The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria	337	(5)
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Gladiators, Gazelles, and Groupies: Basketball Love and Loathing	342	(6)
Julianne Malveaux
Taking Multicultural, Antiracist Education Seriously: An Interview with Enid Lee	348	(6)
Barbara Miner
STATE INSTITUTIONS AND SOCIAL POLICY	354	(41)
The First Americans: American Indians	354	(7)
C. Matthew Snipp
Can Education Eliminate Race, Class, and Gender Inequality?	361	(10)
Roslyn Arlin Mickelson
Stephen Samuel Smith
Welfare Reform, Family Hardship, and Women of Color	371	(8)
Linda Burnham
Aid to Dependent Corporations: Exposing Federal Handouts to the Wealthy	379	(4)
Chuck Collins
Policing the National Body: Sex, Race, and Criminalization	383	(12)
Jael Silliman
Thinking Further	393	(1)
Suggested Readings	393	(1)
Info Trac College Edition: Search Terms	393	(1)
InfoTrac College Edition: Bonus Reading	394	(1)
Wadsworth Sociology Resource Center: Virtual Society	394	(1)
IV Applying the Framework	395	(15)
Introduction	395	(15)
Margaret L. Andersen
Patricia Hill Collins
ETHNICITY AND MIGRATION	410	(38)
``Is This a White Country, or What?''	410	(8)
Lillian Rubin
Optional Ethnicities: For Whites Only?	418	(9)
Mary C. Waters
``Mexicanness'' in New York: Migrants Seek New Place in Old Racial Order	427	(6)
Robert Smith
Migration and Vietnamese American Women: Remaking Ethnicity	433	(8)
Nazli Kibria
Chappals and Gym Shorts: An Indian Muslim Woman in the Land of Oz	441	(7)
Almas Sayeed
SEXUALITY	448	(35)
The Gender of Sexuality	448	(7)
Pepper Schwartz
Virginia Rutter
Black Sexuality: The Taboo Subject	455	(6)
Cornel West
Where Has Gay Liberation Gone? An Interview with Barbara Smith	461	(4)
Amy Gluckman
Betsy Reed
Globalizing Sex Workers' Rights	465	(9)
Kamala Kempadoo
Getting Off on Feminism	474	(9)
Jason Schultz
VIOLENCE	483	(28)
The Harm That Has No Name: Street Harassment, Embodiment, and African American Women	483	(11)
Deirdre E. Davis
More Power Than We Want: Masculine Sexuality and Violence	494	(5)
Bruce Kokopeli
George Lakey
Just Walk on By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space	499	(3)
Brent Staples
Where Race and Gender Meet: Racism, Hate Crimes, and Pornography	502	(4)
Helen Zia
How Safe Is America?	506	(5)
Desiree Taylor
Thinking Further	509	(1)
Suggested Readings	509	(1)
InfoTrac College Edition: Search Terms	509	(1)
InfoTrac College Edition: Bonus Reading	510	(1)
Wadsworth Sociology Resource Center: Virtual Society	510	(1)
V Making a Difference	511	(8)
Introduction	511	(8)
Margaret L. Andersen
Patricia Hill Collins
MAKING A DIFFERENCE	519	(44)
Women of Color on the Front Line	519	(11)
Celene Krauss
``Whosoever'' Is Welcome Here: An Interview with Reverend Edwin C. Sanders II	530	(7)
Gary David Comstock
From the Ground Up	537	(5)
Charon Asetoyer
Having the Tools at Hand: Building Successful Multicultural Social Justice Organizations	542	(10)
John Anner
Can I Get a Witness? Testimony from a Hip Hop Feminist	552	(11)
Shani Jamila
Thinking Further	560	(1)
Suggested Readings	560	(1)
InfoTrac College Edition: Search Terms	560	(1)
InfoTrac College Edition: Bonus Reading	561	(1)
Wadsworth Sociology Resource Center: Virtual Society	561	(2)
Index	563