Race, Ethnicity, and Gender : Selected Readings

by Healey, Joseph; O'Brien, Eileen

• ISBN13: 9780761988205
• ISBN10: 0761988203
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-12-01
• Publisher: Pine Forge Press

Summary

How should we respond to the challenges of diversity? Race, Ethnicity, and Gender: Selected Readings addresses this question and examines how the United States is growing increasingly diverse in terms of ethnicity, race, gender, language, and culture. Editors Joseph F. Healey and Eileen O'Brien provide a unique blend of diverse voices, perspectives, and research on a broad range of race, ethnicity, and gender topics. Derived in part from the Third Edition of Joseph Healey's best-selling text Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class, this anthology includes expanded and updated versions of the Current Debates, as well as new, additional readings carefully chosen from the research literature. Race, Ethnicity, and Gender can be used as a stand-alone text or as a companion to Joseph Healey's Diversity & Society.

Table of Contents

Part I - An Introduction to the Study of Minority Groups in the United States

Chapter 1. Diversity in the United States: Questions and Concepts

A. Narrative Portraits

The Social Construction of Racial Identity Life on the Color Line - Excerpt from "Life on the Color Line" by Gregory Williams

The Cultural Sources of Prejudice - Excerpt from "Kaffir Boy" Mark Mathabane

Mark

Mathabane

B. Readings

Prejudice, Discrimination, and Racism - Norman Yetman

Using Racial and Ethnic Concepts: The Critical Case of Very Young

Children - Debra van Ausdale and Joe R. Feagin

Experiencing Difference - Karen Rosenblum and Toni-Michelle Travis

C. Current Debates: Race and Sport

The Dominance of Black Athletes Is Genetic - Jon Entine

The Argument for Genetic Differences Is Deeply Flawed - Jonathan Marks

Questions to Consider

Chapter 2. Assimilation and Pluralism

A. Narrative Portrait: Assimilation Then and Now

Choosing a Dream: Italians in Hell's Kitchen - Mario Puzo

Always Running: La Vida Loca - Luis Rodriguez

B. Readings

Divided Fates: Immigrant Children in a Restructured U.S. Economy - M. Patricia Fernandez-Kelly and Richard Schauffler

"Opening" Faces: The Politics of Cosmetic Surgery and Asian

American Women

- Eugenia Kaw

A Different Mirror - Ronald Takaki

C. Current Debates: Does Language Diversity Threaten National Unity?

Everyone Should Learn English - Richard Lamm (with Gary Imhoff)

Language Diversity Is Not a Threat - Robert D. King

Questions to Consider

Part II - Understanding the Evolution of Dominant-Minority Relations in the United States

Chapter 3. The Development of Minority-Dominant Relation in Pre-Industrial America: The Origins of Slavery

A. Narrative Portrait: The Lives of Slaves

Life as a Slave Girl - Harriet Jacobs (edited by Jean F. Yellin)

Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb - Henry Bibb (Edited by Gilbert Osofsky)

B. Readings

Slavery Unwilling to Die: The Historical Development of Systematic Racism - Joe Feagin

Southern Women, Southern Households - Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

Genovese

Elizabeth Fox-

Genovese

C. Current Debates: How Did Slavery Affect the Origins of African American Culture?

Slavery Created the African American Culture - Stanley Elkins

African American Culture Was Created by an Interplay of Elements from Africa and America - John Blassingame

The Experiences of Female Slaves Has Been Under-Researched and Under-Reported - Deborah Gray White

Question to Consider

Chapter 4. Industrialization and Dominant-Minority Relations: From Slavery to Segregation and the Coming of Post-Industrial Society

A. Narrative Portrait: The Kitchenette

Death on the City Pavement - Richard Wright

B. Readings

The Meaning of Emancipation According to Black Women - Angela Davis

Race, Gender and Work: The History of Asian and Asian-American Women - Julie Matthaei and Teresa Amott

Distinguishing Five Models of Affirmative Action - David B. Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer

C. Current Debates: Affirmative Action

Affirmative Action Casts Suspicions on Legitimate Black Achievement and Depicts African Americans as Incapable - Thomas Sowell

Why We Still Need Affirmative Action - Orlando Patterson

Affirmative Action Should Be Based on Class Rather Than Race - Richard Kahlenberg

Questions to Consider

Part III - Understanding Dominant-Minority Relations in the United States Today

Chapter 5. African Americans

A. Narrative Portrait: The Price of Success

To Be Black, Gifted, and Alone - Bebe Moore Campbell

B. Readings

I am not a racist but…': mapping White college students' racial ideology in the USA - Eduardo Bonilla-Silva and Tyrone A. Forman

Race and Criminalization: Black Americans and the Punishment Industry - Angela Davis

The Elephant In The Living Room: The Issue Of Race In Close Black/White Friendships

- Kathleen Odell Korgen

C. Current Debates: Reparations

Reparations for African Americans in Historical Context - Joe R. Feagin and Eileen O'Brien

Reparations are an Idea Whose Time has Come - Manning Marable

Why I Don't Want Reparations for Slavery - John McWhorter

Questions to Consider

Chapter 6. Native Americans

A. Narrative Portrait: Native American Experience and Perspective

Lakota Woman - Mary Crow Dog

Listening to the Air - John Lame Deer

B. Readings

Trends Among American Indians in the United States - Russell Thornton

Growing Up Indian - Leonard Peltier

Angry Women are Building: Issues and Struggles Facing

American Indian Women Today - Paula Gunn Allen

C. Current Debates: Should Columbus Day be Celebrated?

Columbus Day Should be Celebrated - Christopher Hitchens

Why Columbus Day Celebrations and Parades Should Be Opposed - Glenn Morris and Russel Means

The Value of Native American Culture and Indian Identity - N. Scott Momaday

Questions to Consider

Chapter 7. Hispanic Americans

A. Narrative Portrait: The Meaning of Macho

Americanization is Tough on Macho - Rose Del Castillo Guilbault

B. Readings

Mock Spanish: A Site For The Indexical Reproduction Of Racism In American English - Jane H. Hill

Seeing More than Black and White: Latinos, Racism, and the

Cultural Divides - Elizabeth Martinez

C. Current Debates: Is Immigration Harmful or Helpful to the United States?

Immigration Is Harmful - Peter Brimelow

Immigration Is Not Harmful - Reynolds Farley

We Need to Reframe the Immigration Debate - George Borjas

Questions to Consider

Chapter 8. Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders

A. Narrative Portrait: Two Stories of Immigration

Ho Yang

Vo Thi Tam

B. Readings

The 'Success' Image of Asian Americans: Its Validity, and Its Practical and Theoretical Implications - Won Moo Hurh

The Interrelationship Between Anti-Asian Violence and Asian America

- Victor Hwang

C. Current Debate: Asian American "Success": What Are the Dimensions, Causes, and Implications for Other Minority Groups?

The Success of Japanese Americans is Cultural - Harry Kitano

The "Success" of Chinese Americans is Structural - Alejandro Portes and Min Zhou

The Success of Asian Americans Has Been Exaggerated, In Part to Criticize Other Minority Groups - Ronald Takaki

Questions to Consider

Chapter 9. White Ethnic Groups

A. Narrative Portrait

Ethnicity, Prejudice, and the Irish Political Machine - Excerpt by David Gray

B. Readings

How Jews Became White - Karen Brodkin

White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of

Coming to See Correspondences Through Work in

Woman's Studies

- Peggy McIntosh

Is This A White Country, Or What? - Lillian Rubin

C. Current Debates: Racial Identity: Whites and Blacks

The Need to Understand Whiteness - Richard Dyer

Symbolic and Involuntary Ethnicity - Mary Waters

Part IV Conclusions

Chapter 10. Antiracist Solutions

The Emperor's New Clothes - Patricia J. Williams

The Racial Preference Licensing Act - Derrick Bell

The Future of Antiracisms - Eileen O'Brien

Abolish the White Race by any means necessary - Noel Ignatiev and John Garvey

Being An Ally - Paul Kivel

Commitment to Combat Racism - Judith Katz