Rethinking the Color Line : Readings in Race and Ethnicity

by Gallagher, Charles A.

• ISBN13: 9780073135748
• ISBN10: 0073135747
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-03-26
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

This anthology of current research and writings examines contemporary issues and explores new approaches to the study of race and ethnic relations.

Table of Contents

* indicates a new reading

Preface

About the Contributors

Introduction: Rethinking the Color Line: Understanding How Boundaries Shift

Part I: Sorting by Color: Why We Attach Meaning to Race

Race and Ethnicity: Sociohistoric Constructions and

1. How Our Skins Got Their Color, Marvin Harris

2. Drawing the Color Line, Howard Zinn

3. Racial Formations, Michael Omi and Howard Winant

4. Theoretical Perspectives in Race and Ethnic Relations, Joe R. Feagin and Clairece Booher Feagin

5. Racialized Social System Approach to Racism, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

Contemporary Socioeconomic Trends

6. An Overview of Trends in Social and Economic Well-Being, by Race, Rebecca M. Blank

*7. The Color of Health in the United States, David R. Williams and Chiquita Collins

*8. Transformative Assets, the Racial Wealth Gap and the American Dream, Thomas M. Shapiro

Race as Chameleon: How the Idea of Race Changes Over Time and Place

9. Placing Race in Context, Clara E. Rodriguez and Hector Cordero-Guzman

10. A Tour of Indian People and Indian Lands, David E. Wilkins

11. Asian American Panethnicity: Bridging Institutions and Identities, Yen Le Espiritu

*12. Beyond Black and White: Remaking Race in America,

Jennifer Lee and Frank D. Bean

Colorblind America: Fact, Fantasy or Our Future?

13. Color Blind Privilege: The Social and Political Functions of Erasing the Color Line in Post-Race America, Charles A. Gallagher

*14. The Ideology of Colorblindness, Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres

15. The Possibility of a New Racial Hierarchy in the Twenty-First-Century United States, Herbert J. Gans

Part II: Prejudice, Discrimination and Racism

Understanding Racism

16. Race Prejudice as a Sense of Group Position, Herbert Blumer

17. Discrimination and the American Creed, Robert K. Merton

*18. Race and Civil Rights Pre-September 11, 2001: The Targeting of Arabs and Muslims, Susan M. Akram and Kevin R. Johnson

19. The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: Racialized Social Democracy, George Lipsitz

20. The Continuing Significance of Race: Antiblack Discrimination in Public Places, Joe R. Feagin

How Space Gets Raced

21. Residential Segregation and Neighborhood Conditions in U.S. Metropolitan Areas, Douglas S. Massey

22. The Code of the Streets, Elijah Anderson

23. Environmental Justice in the 21st Century: Race Still Matters, Robert D. Bullard

24. Savage Inequalities, Jonathan Kozol

*25. Why Are There No Supermarkets in My Neighborhood?: The Long Search for Fresh Fruit, Produce and Healthy Food, Shannon N. Zenk (et.al)

Part III: Racialized Opportunity in Social Institutions

Race and Criminal Justice: Oxymoron or an American Tragedy

26. No Equal Justice: The Color of Punishment, David Cole

27. Race and Criminalization: Black Americans and the Punishment Industry, Angela Y. Davis

28. .And the Poor Get Prison, Jeffrey Reiman

*29. The Mark of a Criminal Record, Devah Pager

How Race Shapes the Workplace

*30. Kristin v. Aisha; Brad v. Rasheed: Whats in a Name and How It Affects Getting a Job, Amy Braverman

31. When the Melting Pot Boils Over: The Irish, Jews, Blacks and Koreans of New York, Roger Waldinger

32. Theres No Shame in My Game: Status and Stigma Among Harlems Working Poor, Katherine S. Newman and Catherine Ellis

*33. Sweatshops in Sunset Park: A Variation of Late Twentieth-Century Chinese Garment Shops in New York City, Xiaolan Bao

*34. Hispanics in the American South and the Transformation of the Poultry Industry, William Kandel and Emilio A. Parrado

Race, Representations and the Media--Drug Dealers, Maids and Mammies: The Role of Stereotypes in the Media

*35. Broadcast News Portrayal of Minorities: Accuracy in Reporting, Roger D. Klein and Stacy Naccarato

36. Television and the Politics of Representation, Justin Lewis and Sut Jhally

37. Distorted Reality: Hispanic Characters in TV Entertainment, S. Robert Lichter and Daniel R. Amundson

Crazy Horse Malt Liquor and Athletes: The Tenacity of Stereotypes

*38. Winnebagos, Cherokees, Apaches, and Dakotas: The Persistence of Stereotyping of American Indians in American Advertising Brands, Debra Merskin

39. Sport in America: The New Racial Stereotypes, Richard E. Lapchick

Part IV: How Americas Complexion Changes

Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration

*40. The Melting Pot and the Color Line, Stephen Steinberg

41. The Changing Face of America: Immigration, Race/Ethnicity, and Social Mobility, Min Zhou

42. The Arab Immigrant Experience, Michael W. Suleiman

43. Ethnic and Racial Identities of Second-Generation Black Immigrants in New York City, Mary C. Waters

Race and Romance: Blurring Boundaries

*44. Captain Kirk Kisses Lieutenant Uhura: Interracial IntimaciesThe View From Hollywood, Randall Kennedy

45. Discovering Racial Borders, Heather M. Dalmage

46. The Changing Face of America: Intermarriage and the Mixed Race Movement, Frank Wu

47. Ten Truths of Interracial Marriage, Maria Root

Living With Less Racism: Strategies for Individual Action

48. Ten Simple Things You Can Do To Improve Race Relations, Charles A. Gallagher

Appendix