Race and Ethnicity in Society The Changing Landscape

by Higginbotham, Elizabeth; Andersen, Margaret L.

• ISBN13: 9781111519537
• ISBN10: 1111519536
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-01-25
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

This engaging reader is organized in four major thematic parts, subdivided into thirteen different sections. Part I ("The Social Basis of Race and Ethnicity") establishes the analytical frameworks that are now being used to think about race in society. The section examines the social construction of race and ethnicity as concepts and experience. Part II ("Continuity and Change: How We Got Here and What It Means") explores both the historical patterns of inclusion and exclusion that have established racial and ethnic inequality, while also explaining some of the contemporary changes that are shaping contemporary racial and ethnic relations. Part III ("Race and Social Institutions") examines the major institutional structures in contemporary society and investigates patterns of racial inequality within these institutions. Persistent inequality in the labor market and in patterns of community, residential, and educational segregation continue to shape the life chances of different groups. Part IV ("Building a Just Society") concludes the book by looking at both large-scale contexts of change, such as those reflected in the movement to elect the first African American president.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
About the Editors	p. xvii
The Social Basis of Race and Ethnicity	p. 1
The Social Construction of Race and Ethnicity	p. 3
Defining Race	p. 7
The Race Myth	p. 14
Planting the Seed: The Invention of Race	p. 24
How Did Jews Become White Folks?	p. 28
Racial Formation	p. 36
Student Exercises	p. 41
What Do You Think? Prejudice, Stereotyping, and Racism	p. 43
American Racism in the Twenty-first Century	p. 50
Color-Blind Privilege: The Social and Political Functions of Erasing the Color Line in Post Race America	p. 57
The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named María	p. 62
Mixed-Race Chic	p. 67
My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student	p. 71
Student Exercises	p. 77
Representing Race and Ethnicity: The Media and Popular Culture	p. 79
Black Youth and the Ironies of Capitalism	p. 83
How to Not Be 21st Century Venus Hottentots	p. 89
María de la Barbie	p. 99
"Playing Indian": Why Native American Mascots Must End	p. 105
Unmasking Racism: Costuming and Engagement of the Racial Other	p. 110
Student Exercise	p. 121
Who Are You? Race and Identity	p. 123
Why Are the Black Kids Sitting Together?: A Conversation with Beverly Daniel Tatum	p. 126
Drawing the Boundaries	p. 133
Barack Like Me: Our First Asian American President	p. 139
White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son	p. 144
Student Exercises	p. 149
Continuity and Change: How We Got Here and What It Means	p. 151
Who Belongs? Race, Rights and Citizenship	p. 153
Citizenship and Inequality	p. 158
The First Americans: American Indians	p. 166
Race, Civil Rights, and Immigration Law After September 11, 2001: The Targeting of Arabs and Muslims	p. 174
Salsa and Ketchup: Transnational Migrants Straddle Two Worlds	p. 178
Student Exercises	p. 185
The Changing Face of America: Immigration	p. 187
Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America	p. 192
From Ellis Island to JFK: Education in New York's Two Great Waves of Immigration	p. 197
Places and Peoples: The New American Mosaic	p. 203
Between Two Worlds: How Young Latinos Come of Age in America	p. 207
Student Exercises	p. 211
The Difference It Makes: Race, Class, and Gender Inequality	p. 213
Toward a New Vision: Race, Class, and Gender as Categories of Analysis and Connection	p. 216
Theorizing Race, Gender, and Class	p. 223
The Myth of the Missing Black Father	p. 228
Between Good and Ghetto	p. 234
"They Are Testing You All the Time": Negotiating Dual Femininities among Chicana Attorneys	p. 238
Student Exercises	p. 244
Race and Social Institutions	p. 245
Race and the Workplace	p. 247
Toward a Framework for Understanding Forces that Contribute to or Reinforce Racial Inequality	p. 250
Race and the Invisible Hand: How White Networks Exclude Black Men from Blue-Collar Jobs	p. 255
Families on the Frontier: From Braceros in the Fields to Braceras in the Home	p. 265
Race, Migration, and Labor Control	p. 273
Student Exercises	p. 277
Shaping Lives and Love: Race, Families, and Communities	p. 279
The Family and Community Costs of Racism	p. 283
Child Welfare as a Racial Justice Issue	p. 290
Interracial Relationships: Discourses and Images	p. 296
Breaking the Last Taboo: Interracial Marriage in America	p. 301
Student Exercises	p. 309
How We Live and Learn: Segregation, Housing, and Education	p. 311
Fences and Neighbors: Segregation in 21st-Century America	p. 315
Sub-Prime as a Black Catastrophe	p. 324
Historic Reversals, Accelerating Resegregation, and the Need for New Integration Strategies	p. 329
Good Neighborhoods, Good Schools: Race and the "Good Choices" of White Families	p. 338
Student Exercises	p. 348
Do We Care? Race, Health Care, and the Environment	p. 349
Health Disparities: What Do We Know? What Do We Need to Know? What Should We Do?	p. 353
Cultural Images and the Health of African American Women	p. 364
Poisoning the Planet: The Struggle for Environmental Justice	p. 374
Race, Place, and the Environment in Post-Katrina New Orleans	p. 381
Student Exercises	p. 391
Criminal Injustice? Courts, Crime, and the Law	p. 393
Punishment and Inequality in America	p. 396
Debunking the Myth of Immigrant Criminality: Imprisonment Among First- and Second-Generation Young Men	p. 401
The Uneven Scales of Capital Justice	p. 408
The Mark of a Criminal Record	p. 412
Student Exercises	p. 422
Building a Just Society	p. 423
Moving Forward: Analysis and Social Action	p. 425
Post-Racism?: Putting President Obama's Victory in Perspective	p. 429
Diversity Management in Corporate America	p. 436
Ten Ways to Fight Hate: A Community Response Guide	p. 444
Student Exercises	p. 447
Index	p. 449
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