Rethinking the Color Line : Readings in Race and Ethnicity

by Gallagher, Charles A.

• ISBN13: 9780767402682
• ISBN10: 0767402685
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-01-22
• Publisher: MCG

Summary

"Rethinking the Color Line is an anthology of current research and writings that examine contemporary issues and explore new approaches to the study of race and ethnicity.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Sociological Study of Race and Ethnicity

I. THEORIZING RACE AND ETHNICITY, UNDERSTANDING RACISM

Race and Ethnicity as Social Constructions

Marvin Harris, How Our Skin Got Their Color/Michael Omi and Howard Winant, Racial Formations in the United States/Joe R. Feagin and Clairece Booher Feagin, Theoretical Perspectives in Race and Ethnicity/

Living in Color: Race in Our Everyday Lives

Lawrence Wright, One Drop of Blood/Clara Rodriguez and Hector Cordero-Guzman, Placing Race in Context/Yen Le Espiritu, Asian American Panethnicity/Joane Nagel, American Indian Ethnic Renewal: Politics and Resurgence of Identity/

II. PREJUDICE AND DISCRIMINATION

Why We Hate: Linking Attitudes to Action

Herbert Blumer, Race Prejudice as a Sense of Group Position/Robert Merton, Discrimination and the American Creed/Elliot Aronson, Causes of Prejudice/Elizabeth Martinez, Beyond Black/White: The Racisms of Our Time/Howard Schuman, Charlotte Steeh, Lawrence Bobo, and Maria Krysan, The Complexity of Race Relations/

The Color of Space

Joe R. Feagin, The Continuing Significance of Race: Antiblack Discrimination in Public Places/Jonathan Kozol, Savage Inequalities/Herbert Gans, Positive Functions of the Undeserving Poor: Uses of the Underclass in America/Howard Pinderhughes, The Anatomy of Racially Motivated Violence in New York City: A Case Study of Youth in Southern Brooklyn/Robert H. Bullard, Anatomy of Environmental Racism and the Environmental Justice Movement/

III. RACE AND ETHNICITY IN SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS

Economy and Work

Edna Bonacich, Advanced Capitalism and Black/White Race Relations in the United States: A Split Labor Market Interpretation/Julie Mattaei and Teresa Amott, Race, Gender, and Work: The History of Asian and Asian American Women/Gregory DeFreitas, The Emergence of the Hispanic American Labor Force/Joleen Kirschenman and Kathryn M. Neckerman, Hiring Strategies, Racial Bias, and Inner-city Workers/Roger Waldinger, When the Melting Pot Boils Over: The Irish, Jews, Blacks, and Koreans of New York/William Julius Wilson, When Work Disappears

Race and Residence

Douglas Massey and Nancy Denton, American Apartheid: The Perpetuation of the Underclass/Judith Desena, Local Gatekeeping Practices and Residential Segregation/Elijah Anderson, The Code of the Streets

Race and the Media

Benjamin Demott, Put On a Happy Face: Masking the Differences between Blacks and Whites/bell hooks, Madonna: Plantation Mistress or Soul Sister/Robert Entman, African Americans according to TV News/S. Robert Lichter and Daniel R. Amundson, Distorted Reality: Hispanic Characters in TV Entertainment/Richard E. Lapchick and David Stuckey, Professional Sports: The Racial Report Card

IV. COLOR BLIND OR COLOR BIND: THINKING THROUGH THE AMERICAN DILEMMA

The Changing Complexion of the U.S.: Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration

Stephen Steinberg, Why Irish Became Domestics and Italians and Jews Did Not/Mary C. Waters, Ethnic and Racial Identities of Second-Generation Black Immigrants in New York City/Nicholas Lemann, The Other Underclass/Pyong Gap Min, Major Issues Relating to Asian American Experiences/Lillian Rubin, "Is This a White Country, or What"

Trapped in Race?Robert Staples, The Illusion of Racial Equality: The Black American Dilemma/Mary C. Waters, Optional Ethnicities: For Whites Only/Charles A. Gallagher, White Racial Formation: Into the Twenty-First Century/Michael Eric Dyson, In a Color-Blind Society We Can Only See Black and White; Why Race Will Continue to Rule

Constructing a Non-Racist World: Obstacles and Opportunities

Randall Kennedy, My Race Problem—and Ours/Cornel West, The Pitfalls of Racial Reasoning/Jennifer L. Hochschild, American Racial and Ethnic Politics in the 21st Century: A Cautious Look