Race, Class and Gender in the United States : An Integrated Study

by Paula S. Rothenberg

• ISBN13: 9780312056674
• ISBN10: 0312056672
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-03-01
• Publisher: VHP SMP

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
The Social Construction of Difference: Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality	p. 7
Racial Formations	p. 13
The Ethics of Living Jim Crow: An Autobiographical Sketch	p. 23
Rethinking Women's Biology	p. 32
The Social Construction of Gender	p. 33
Ah, Ya Throw Like a Girl!	p. 46
In a Male-Centered World, Female Differences Are Transformed into Female Disadvantages	p. 48
The Social Construction of Sexuality	p. 52
The Invention of Heterosexuality	p. 55
Deconstructing the Underclass	p. 67
Domination and Subordination	p. 73
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 79
"Us" and "Them": Becoming an American	p. 81
Who Is an American?	p. 84
"Is This a White Country, or What?"	p. 92
How Jews Became White	p. 100
Asian-American History Rises above Pitfalls for Trail of Success: Ups, Downs Compared to Plight of Blacks	p. 115
Baiting Immigrants: Heartbreak for Latinos	p. 118
The Border Patrol State	p. 121
Five Myths about Immigration	p. 125
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 128
Understanding Racism, Sexism, and Class Privilege	p. 130
The Problem: Discrimination	p. 135
Oppression	p. 146
Racism: Something about the Subject Makes It Hard to Name	p. 150
Smells Like Racism	p. 154
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack	p. 165
Racial Relations Becoming More Complex across Country	p. 170
Death of a Teenager Widens a Racial Rift between Two Towns	p. 175
Gang Rape	p. 183
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 187
The Economics of Race, Class, and Gender in the United States	p. 188
Imagine a Country	p. 192
Class in America: Myths and Realities	p. 202
Who Killed the Middle Class?	p. 215
Family Struggles to Make Do after Fall from Middle Class	p. 220
Middle-Class Blacks Try to Grip a Ladder While Lending a Hand	p. 225
Persistent Racial Segregation Mars Suburbs' Green Dream	p. 228
The Wage Gap: Myths and Facts	p. 234
How Workplaces May Look without Affirmative Action	p. 238
Women Face Glass Walls as Well as Ceilings	p. 241
Welfare: Exploding the Stereotypes	p. 242
What Scholars Can Tell Politicians about the Poor	p. 249
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 253
Many Voices, Many Lives: Some Consequences of Racial, Gender, and Class Inequality	p. 255
Racial and Ethnic Minorities: An Overview	p. 258
On Being South Asian in North America	p. 270
Then Came the War	p. 277
An Ethnic Trump	p. 284
TV Arabs	p. 286
The Circuit	p. 288
The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria	p. 292
Aria: A Bilingual Childhood	p. 297
Arturo	p. 306
Suicide Note	p. 308
Pursuit of Happiness	p. 310
Black Hispanics: The Ties That Bind	p. 312
Blacks and Hispanics: A Fragile Alliance	p. 315
What I Learned about Jews	p. 319
Pigskin, Patriarchy, and Pain	p. 325
He Defies You Still: The Memoirs of a Sissy	p. 328
With No Immediate Cause	p. 334
When Street Harassment Gets Nasty	p. 336
The Triangular Tube of Pink Lipstick	p. 338
"We Are Who You Are": Feminism and Disability	p. 339
The Case of Sharon Kowalski and Karen Thompson: Ableism, Heterosexism, and Sexism	p. 346
Requiem for the Champ	p. 356
C. P. Ellis	p. 359
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 368
How it Happened: Race and Gender Issues in U.S. Law	p. 370
Indian Tribes: A Continuing Quest for Survival	p. 378
An Act for the Better Ordering and Governing of Negroes and Slaves, South Carolina, 1712	p. 383
The "Three-Fifths Compromise": The U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 2	p. 388
An Act Prohibiting the Teaching of Slaves to Read	p. 389
Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, Seneca Falls Convention, 1848	p. 390
The Antisuffragists: Selected Papers, 1852-1887	p. 394
People v. Hall, 1854	p. 399
Dred Scott v. Sandford, 1856	p. 401
The Emancipation Proclamation	p. 405
United States Constitution: Thirteenth (1865), Fourteenth (1868), and Fifteenth (1870) Amendments	p. 407
The Black Codes	p. 408
Bradwell v. Illinois, 1873	p. 416
Minor v. Happersett, 1874	p. 418
California Constitution, 1876	p. 419
Elk v. Wilkins, 1884	p. 420
Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896	p. 421
United States Constitution: Nineteenth Amendment (1920)	p. 424
Korematsu v. United States, 1944	p. 425
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 1954	p. 429
Roe v. Wade, 1973	p. 434
The Equal Rights Amendment (Defeated)	p. 434
Bowers v. Hardwick, 1986	p. 435
Confronting Obstacles to Lesbian and Gay Equality	p. 437
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 446
Creating and Maintaining Hierarchies: Stereotypes, Ideology, Language, Violence, and Social Control	p. 448
Self-Fulfilling Stereotypes	p. 452
Anti-Gay Stereotypes	p. 458
Racism in the English Language	p. 465
Sex and Race: The Analogy of Social Control	p. 475
Am I Thin Enough Yet?	p. 489
Pulling Train	p. 497
Failing at Faimess: How America's Schools Cheat Girls	p. 503
Tracking	p. 509
Media Magic: Making Class Invisible	p. 510
Blaming the Victim	p. 519
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 529
Revisioning the Future	p. 530
Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference	p. 533
En rapport, In Opposition: Cobrando cuentas a las nuestras	p. 540
Up Against the Wall	p. 546
Toward a More Caring Society	p. 549
A New Vision of Masculinity	p. 559
Homophobia as a Weapon of Sexism	p. 565
Narrowing the Income Gap between Rich and Poor	p. 574
Feminism: A Transformational Politic	p. 579
Still I Rise	p. 586
The woman in the ordinary	p. 588
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 588
Index	p. 595
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