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

by Rothenberg, Paula S.

• ISBN13: 9781464178665
• ISBN10: 1464178666
• Edition: 10th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2016-04-01
• Publisher: Worth Publishers

Summary

Exploring concepts of identity, diversity and inequality, Race, Class, and Gender in the United States introduces you to race, class, gender, and sexuality in the United States through carefully selected readings and a pertinent organization of information.

Author Biography

Paula S. Rothenberg is a Senior Fellow at The Murphy Institute, City University of New York and Professor Emerita at William Patterson University of New Jersey.   From 1989 to 2006 she served as Director of The New Jersey Project on Inclusive Scholarship, Curriculum, and Teaching.   She is the author of several books including the autobiographical Invisible Privilege: A Memoir about Race, Class, and Gender.   With Worth Publishers she has auhored four titles--the best-selling Race, Class, and Gender; White Privilege; Beyond Borders; and her newest title What's the Problem? She is also co-editor of a number of anthologies including Creating and Inclusive College Curriculum:  A Teaching Sourcebook from the New Jersey Project and Feminist Frameworks: Alternative Theoretical Accounts of the Relations between Women and Men, one of the first women’s studies texts.   Her articles and essays appear in journals and anthologies across the disciplines and have been widely reprinted.    Her work was instrumental in the creation of women’s studies and multicultural studies as academic disciplines. 

Table of Contents

* = New to this Edition

Part I THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF DIFFERENCE: RACE, CLASS, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY　

1. Racial Formations
Michael Omi and Howard Winant

2. Constructing Race, Creating White Privilege
Pem Davidson Buck

3. How Jews Became White Folks
Karen Brodkin　

4. "Night to His Day": The Social Construction of Gender　
Judith Lorber

5. The Invention of Heterosexuality
Jonathan Ned Katz

6. Masculinity as Homophobia　
Michael S. Kimmel

*7. Transgender Feminism: Queering the Woman Question
Susan Stryker

*8. Debunking the pathology of poverty
Susan Greenbaum

9. Disability and the Justification of Inequality in American History
Douglas C. Baynton

10. Domination and Subordination
Jean Baker Miller

Part II UNDERSTANDING RACISM, SEXISM, HETEROSEXISM, AND CLASS PRIVILEGE

1. Defining Racism: "Can We Talk?"
Beverly Daniel Tatum

2. Color-Blind Racism 

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

*3. Neither Black Nor White
Angelo N. Ancheta

4. Oppression
Marilyn Frye

5. Homophobia as a Weapon of Sexism
Suzanne Pharr 


6. Class in America
Gregory Mantsios

7. Unequal Childhoods: Race, Class, and Family Life　
Annette Lareau

*8 Intersectionality: An Everyday Metaphor Anyone Can Use
Kimberlé Crenshaw and Bim Adewunmi

9. White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
Peggy McIntosh (1988)

*10. My Class Didn’t Trump My Race
Robin J. DiAngelo

Part III Complicating Questions of Identity: Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration

*1. Immigration in the United States: New Economic, Social, Political Landscapes with Legislative Reform on the Horizon
Faye Hipsman and Doris Meissner

2. Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of America
Mae Ngai.

3. Los Intersticios: Recasting Moving Selves
Evelyn Alsultany

4. For many Latinos, Racial Identity Is More Culture than Color
Mireya Navarro

*5. Black Ethnics: Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the American Dream
Christina M. Greer

6. The Myth of the Model Minority
Noy Thrupkaew

*7. How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America
Moustafa Bayoumi

IV DISCRIMINATION IN EVERYDAY LIFE

1. The Problem: Discrimination 
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights

*2. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color Blindness
Michelle Alexander

*3. Deportations Down, But Fear Persists Among Undocumented Immigrants
Tim Henderson

*4. The Ghosts of Stonewall: Policing Gender, Policing Sex
Joey L. Mogul, Andrea J. Ritchie, Kay Whitlock

*5. The Transgender Crucible
Sabrina Rubin Erdely

6. Where "English Only" Falls Short
Stacy A. Teicher

7. My Black Skin Makes My White Coat Vanish
Mana Lumumba-Kasongo

8. Women in the State Police: Trouble in the Ranks
Jonathan Schuppe

9. Muslim-American Running Back off the Team at New Mexico State
Matthew Rothschild

*10. Race, Disability, and the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Julianne Hing

11. The Segregated Classrooms of a Proudly Diverse School
Jeffrey Gettleman

12. Race and Family Income of Students Influence Guidance Counselors’ Advice, Study Finds
Eric Hoover

*13. By the numbers: Sex crimes on campus,
Dave Gustafson

14. More Blacks Live with Pollution 

Associated Press

*15. Pollution, Poverty and People of Color: A Michigan Tribe Battles a Global Corporation
By Brian Bienkowski and Environmental Health News

16. Testimony
Sonny Singh

Part V THE ECONOMICS OF RACE, CLASS, AND GENDER

1 Imagine a Country
Holly Sklar

*2 Wealth Inequality has widened along racial, ethnic lines since end of Great Recession
Rakesh Kochhar and Richard Fry

3. The Making of the American 99% and the Collapse of the Middle Class
Barbara Ehrenreich and John Ehrenreich

*4. The New Latino Underclass: Immigration Enforcement as a Race-Making Institution
Douglas S. Massey

*5. For Asians Wealth Stereotypes Don’t Fit Reality
Seth Freed Wessler

*6. Gender and the Black Jobs Crisis
Linda Burnham

*7. Valuing Domestic Work
Ai-jen Poo

8. "Savage Inequalities" Revisited 
Bob Feldman

*9 The New Face of Hunger
Tracie McMillan

*10. 'I am Alena': life as a trans woman where survival means living as Christopher
Ed Pilkington

11 Cause of Death: Inequality
Alejandro Reuss

12 Inequality Undermines Democracy

Eduardo Porter

Part V! MANY VOICES, MANY LIVES: ISSUES OF RACE, CLASS, GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN EVERYDAY LIFE

1. Civilize Them with A Stick
Mary Brave Bird (Crow Dog) with Richard Erdoes

2. Then Came the War
Yuri Kochiyama

3. Crossing the Border Without Losing Your Past
Oscar Casares

*4. Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates

*5. I wouldn’t have Come if I would have Known
E. Tammy Kim　

6. This Person Doesn’t Sound White
Ziba Kashef

*7. "You are in the dark, in the car…"
Claudia Rankine

8. He Defies you Still: The Memoirs of a Sissy
Tommi Avicolli

9. Against "Bullying" or On Loving Queer Kids
Richard Kim

10. The Case of Sharon Kowalski and Karen Thompson: Ableism, Heterosexism, and Sexism
Joan L. Griscom

*11. Gentrification Will Drive My Uncle Out of His Neighborhood, and I will Have Helped
Eric Rodriguez　

*12. My Vassar College Faculty ID Makes Everything Okay　
Kiese Laymon

*13. The Unbearable (In)visibility of Being Trans
Chase Strangio

*14. Black Bodies in Motion and in Pain
Edwidge Danticat

Part VII HOW IT HAPPENED: RACE AND GENDER ISSUES IN U.S. LAW

1. Indian Tribes: A Continuing Quest for Survival 
U.S. Commission on Human Rights

2. An Act for the Better Ordering and Governing of Negroes and Slaves, South Carolina, 1712

3. The "Three-Fifths Compromise": 
The U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 2

4. An Act Prohibiting the Teaching of Slaves to Read

5. Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, Seneca Falls Convention, 1848

6. People v. Hall, 1854

7. Dred Scott v. Sandford, 1857

8. The Emancipation Proclamation 

Abraham Lincoln

9. United States Constitution: Thirteenth (1865), Fourteenth (1868), and Fifteenth (1870) Amendments

10. The Black Codes 

W. E. B. Du Bois

*11. Chinese Exclusion Act , 1882

12. Elk v. Wilkins, November 3, 1884

13. Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896

14. United States Constitution: Nineteenth Amendment (1920)

*15. U.S. v. Bhagat Singh Thind

16. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 1954

17. Roe v. Wade, 1973

18. The Equal Rights Amendment (Defeated)

*19. Obergefell V Hodges

Part VIII MAINTAINING RACE, CLASS, AND GENDER HIERARCHIES: REPRODUCING "REALITY"

1. Self-Fulfilling Stereotypes 

Mark Snyder

2.Am I Thin Enough Yet? 

Sharlene Hesse-Biber

3. The Plutocratic Culture: Institutions Values and Ideologies
Michael Parenti

4. Media Magic: Making Class Invisible 

Gregory Mantsios

5. Still Separate, Still Unequal: America’s Educational Apartheid
Jonathan Kozol

6. Masked Racism: Reflections on the Prison Industrial Complex 

Angela Davis

*7. You May Know Me from Such Roles as Terrorist #4
Jon Ronson

*8. The Florida State Seminoles: The Champions of Racist Mascots
David Zirin

*9. Michael Brown Unremarkable Humanity
Ta-Nehisi Coates

*10 When You Forget to Whistle Vivaldi
Tressie McMillan Cottom

Part IX SOCIAL CHANGE: REVISIONING THE FUTURE AND MAKING A DIFFERENCE

1. Age, Race, and Class: Women Redefining Difference
Audre Lorde

2. Feminism: Transformational Politic
bell hooks

3. A New Vision of Masculinity
Cooper Thompson

4. Interrupting the Cycle of Oppression: The Roles of Allies as Agents of Change
Andrea Ayvazian

5. Demand the Impossible
Mathew Rothschild

*6 The Motivating Forces Behind Black Lives Matter
Tasbeeh Herwees

*7 On Solidarity, "Centering Anti-Blackness," and Asian Americans
Scot Nakagawa