Race Class and Gender An Anthology Author:Margaret L. Andersen (Editor), Patricia Hill Collins (Editor) RACE, CLASS, AND, GENDER, includes many interdisciplinary readings. The author's selection of very accessible articles show how race, class, and gender shape people's experiences, and help students to see the issues in an analytic, as well as descriptive way. — The book also provides conceptual grounding in understanding race, class, and ... more »gender; has a strong historical and sociological perspective; and is further strengthened by conceptual introductions by the authors. Students will find the readings engaging and accessible, but may gain the most from the introduction sections that highlight key points and relate the essential concepts. Included in the collection of readings are narratives aimed at building empathy, and articles on important social issues such as prison, affirmative action, poverty, immigration, and racism, among other topics.
Why race, class, and gender still matter --
Systems of power and inequality --
Race and racism --
Class and inequality --
Ethnicity, immigration, and nationality --
Gender and sexism --
Sexuality and heterosexism --
The structure of social institutions --
Work and economic transformation --
Families --
Education --
Media and popular culture --
Bodies, beauty, and sports --
The state and violence --
An intersectional framework for change, from the local to the global. Pt. I. Why race, class, and gender still matter / Margaret L. Anderson, Patricia Hill Collins : --
1. Age, race, class and sex: women redefining difference / Audre Lorde --
2. A different mirror / Ronald T. Takaki --
3. The first Americans: American Indians / C. Matthew Snipp --
4. From a native daughter / Haunani-Kay Trask --
5. Label us angry / Jeremiah Torres. Pt. II. Systems of power and inequality / Margaret L. Anderson, Patricia Hill Collins : --
A. Race and racism : --
6. White privilege : unpacking the invisible knapsack / Peggy McIntosh --
7. Color-blind privilege : the social and political functions of erasing the color line in post race America / Charles A. Gallagher --
8. What white supremacists taught a Jewish scholar about identity / Abby L. Ferber --
9. Are Asian Americans becoming more "white"? / Min Zhou --
10. Race as class / Herbert J. Gans. B. Class and inequality : --
11. Is capitalism gendered and racialized? / Joan Acker --
12. The great divergence: growing income inequality could destabilize the U.S. so why isn't anyone talking about it? / Timothy Noah --
13. Closing the wealth gap: a review of racial and ethnic inequalities in homeownership / Meghan Kuebler --
14. The intersection of poverty discourses: race, class, culture, and gender / Debra Henderson, Ann Tickamyer --
15. Health and wealth : our appalling health inequality reflects and reinforces society's other gaps / Lawrence R. Jacobs, James A. Morone. C. Ethnicity, migration, and nationality : --
16. "Is this a white country, or what?" / Lillian B. Rubin --
17. Must-see TV: South Asian characterizations in American popular media / Bhoomi K. Thakore --
18. Optional ethnicities : for whites only? / Mary C. Waters --
19. Living "illegal": the human face of unauthorized immigration / Marie Friedmann Marquardt...(and others) --
20. A dream deferred : undocumented students at CUNY / Carolina Bank MunÌoz. D. Gender and sexism : --
21. Sex and gender through the prism of difference / Maxine Baca Zinn, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Michael Messner --
22. Seeing privilege where it isn't: marginalized masculinities and the intersectionality of privilege / Bethany M. Coston, Michael Kimmel --
23. The myth of the Latin woman : I just met a girl named MariÌa / Judith Ortiz Cofer --
24. Keep your "N" in check: African American women and the interactive effects of etiquette and emotional labor / Marlese Durr, Adia M. Harvey Wingfield --
25. The gendered rice bowl: the sexual politics of service work in urban China / Amy Hanser. E. Sexuality and heterosexism : --
26. Prisons for our bodies, closets for our minds : racism, heterosexism, and black sexuality / Patrica Hill Collins --
27. "Dude, you're a fag:" adolescent masculinity and the fag discourse / C.J. Pascoe --
28. The invention of heterosexuality / Jonathan Ned Katz --
29. Straight: the surprisingly short history of heterosexuality / Hanne Blank --
30. Selling sex for visas : sex tourism as a stepping-stone to international migration / Denise Brennan. Pt. III. The structure of social institutions / Margaret L. Anderson, Patricia Hill Collins : --
A. Work and economic transformation : --
31. Seeing in 3D : a race, class and gender lens on the economic downturn / Margaret L. Anderson --
32. Inequality and the growth of bad jobs / Matt Vidal --
33. Are Emily and Greg more employable than Lakisha and Jamal? : a field experiment on labor market discrimination / Marianne Bertrand, Sendhil Mullainathan --
34. Racism in toyland / Christine L. Williams --
35. Gender matters, so do race and class : experiences of gendered racism on the Wal-Mart shop floor / Sandra E. Weissinger. B. Families : --
36. Our mother's grief : racial-ethnic women and the maintenance of our families / Bonnie Thorton Dill --
37. Exploring the intersections of race, ethnicity, and class on maternity leave decisions: implications for public policy / Tiffany Manuel, Ruth Enid Zambrana --
38. Straight is gay as family is to no family / Kath Weston --
39. Navigating interracial borders : black-white couples and their social worlds / Erica Chito Childs. C. Education : --
40. Affirming identity in an era of school desegregation / Beverly Tatum --
41. From the achievement gap to the education debt: understanding achievement in U.S. schools / Gloria Ladson-Billings --
42. How a scholarship girl becomes a soldier : the militarization of Latina/o youth in Chicago public schools / Gina M. PeÌrez --
43. Unspeakable offenses: untangling race and disability in discourses of intersectionality / Nirmala Erevelles, Andrea Minear. D. Media and popular culture : --
44. Representations of Latina/o sexuality in popular culture / Deborah R. Vargas --
45. Where's the honor? Attitudes toward the "fighting Sioux" nickname and logo / Dana M. Williams --
46. Media magic : making class invisible / Gregory Mantsios --
47. Gender in the Twilight series / Rebecca Hayes-Smith --
48. Rethinking cyberfeminism(s): race, gender, and embodiment / Jessie Daniels. E. Bodies, beauty, and sports : --
49. Brown body, white wonderland / Tressie McMillan Cottom --
50. The construction of Black masculinity: white supremacy now and then / Abby L. Ferber --
51. Sustainable food and privilege : why is green always white (and male and upper class) / Janani Balasubramanian --
52. There's no business like the nail business / Miliann Kang. F. The state and violence : --
53. Gender, race, and urban policing: the experience of African American youths / Rod K. Brunson, Jody Miller --
54. The color of justice / Michelle Alexander --
55. Rape, racism, and the law / Jennifer Wriggins --
56. Interpreting and experiencing anti-queer violence : race, class and gender differences among LGBT hate crime victims / Doug Meyer. Pt. IV. An Intersectional framework for change: from the local to the global / Margaret L. Anderson, Patricia Hill Collins : --
57. Multicultural training intervention to address American Indian stereotypes / Jessie A. Steinfeldt, Matthew Clint Steinfeldt --
58. Growing food and justice: dismantling racism through systainable food systems / Alfonso Morales --
59. The intersectional paradigm and alternative visions to stopping domestic violence: what poor women, women of color, and immigrant women are teaching us about violence in the family / Natalie J. Sokoloff --
60 Movement intersectionality; the case of race, gender, disability, and genetic technologies / Dorothy Roberts, Sujatha Jesudason --
61. Globalization and its (mal)econtents: the gendered moral and political economy of terrorism / Michael S. Kimmel --
62. Intersectionality in a transnational world / Bandana Purkayastha« less