Race, class, and gender in the United States : an integrated study / [edited by] Paula S. Rothenberg, Senior Fellow, the Murphy Institute, CUNY, with Kelly S. Mayhew, San Diego City College.
Part I. Domination and subordination / Racial formations / Jean Baker Miller. The ethics of living Jim Crow: an autobiographical sketch / Richard Wright -- Constructing race, creating white privilege / Pem Davidson Buck -- How Jews became white folks: and what that says about race in America / Karen Brodkin -- "Night to His Day": the social construction of gender / Judith Lorber -- The social construction of sexuality / Ruth Hubbard -- The invention of heterosexuality / Jonathan Ned Katz -- Masculinity as homophobia: fear, shame, and silence in the construction of gender identity / Michael S. Kimmel -- Disability and the justification of inequality in American history / Douglas C. Baynton -- Deconstructing the underclass / Herbert Gans -- Domination and subordination / Jean Baker Miller. Part III. Personal voices: facing up to race / Defining racism: "Can We Talk?" / Carrie Ching. Color-blind racism / Eduardo Bonilla-Silva -- Smells like racism / Rita Chaudhry Sethi -- Oppression / Marilyn Frye -- Patriarchy / Allan G. Johnson -- Homophobia as a weapon of sexism / Suzanne Pharr -- The 10 percent problem / Kate Clinton -- White privilege: unpacking the invisible knapsack / Peggy McIntosh -- Unequal childhoods: class, race, and family life / Annette Lareau -- Class in America -- 2012 / Gregory Mantsios -- Part III. Complicating Questions of Identity: Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration -- A nation of none and all of the above / Sam Roberts -- A new century: immigration and the U.S. / MPI staff, updated by Kevin Jernegan -- Impossible subjects: illegal aliens and the making of America / Mae Ngai -- Los intersticios: recasting moving selves / Evelyn Alsultany -- For man Latinos, racial identity is more culture than color / Mirya Navarro -- Testimony / Sonny Singh -- Asian American? / Sonia Shah -- The myth of the model minority / Noy Thrupkaew -- Personal voices: facing up to race / Carrie Ching. Part IV. National study finds widespread sexual harassment of students in grades 7 to 12 / The problem: discrimination / Jenny Anderson. Abercrombie settles class-action suit -- Apparel factory workers were cheated, state says / Steven Greenhouse -- Women in the state police: trouble in the ranks / Jonathan Schuppe -- Why transgender identity matters / Rebecca Juro -- Where "English Only" falls short / Stacy A. Teicher -- Blacks vs. Latinos at work / Miriam Jordan -- Manhattan store owner accused of underpaying and sexually harassing workers / Steven Greenhouse -- Muslim-American running back off the team at New Mexico State / Matthew Rothschild -- Tennessee judge tells immigrant mothers: learn English or else / Ellen Barry -- Tucson's ousted Mexican American Studies director speaks: the fight's not over / Julianne Hing -- My black skin makes my white coat vanish / Mana Lumumba-Kasongo -- The segregated classrooms of a proudly diverse school / Jeffrey Gettleman -- Race and family income of students influence guidance counselors' advice, study finds / Eric Hoover -- College choices are limited for students from needy families, report says / Stephen Burd -- Wealthy often win the race for merit-based college aid / Jay Mathews -- On L.I., raid stirs dispute over influx of immigrants / Bruce Lambert -- More blacks live with pollution / The Associated Press -- National study finds widespread sexual harassment of students in grades 7 to 12 / Jenny Anderson. Part V. Inequality undermines democracy / Imagine a country / Eduardo Porter. Dr. King weeps from his grave / Cornel West -- Rich people create jobs! And five other myths that must die for our economy to live / Kevin Drum -- It's official: the rich got richer: top earners doubled share of nation's income, study finds / Robert Pear -- Study finds big spike in the poorest in the U.S. / Sabrina Tavernise -- The making of the American 99% and the collapse of the middle class / Barbara Ehrenreich and John Ehrenreich -- Wealth gaps rise to record highs between whites, blacks, Hispanics: twenty-to-one / Rakesh Kochhar, Richard Fry, and Paul Taylor -- The economic reality of being Asian American / Meizhu Lui and others -- The economic reality of being Latino/a in the United States / Mezhu Lui and others -- Hispanic children in poverty exceed whites / Sabrina Tavernise -- Gender gap on wages is slow to close / Motoko Rich -- Women losing ground / Ruth Conniff -- Lilly's big day / Gail Collins -- "Savage Inequalities" revisited / Bob Feldman -- Cause of death: inequality / Alejandro Reuss -- Undocumented immigrants find paths to college, careers / Gosia Wozniacka -- Immigration's aftermath / Alejandro Portes -- Inequality undermines democracy / Eduardo Porter. Part VI. C.P. Ellis / Civilize them with a stick / Studs Terkel. Then came the war / Yuri Kochiyama -- Yellow / Frank Wu -- The Arab woman and I / Mona Fayad -- Crossing border without losing your past / Oscar Casares -- The event of becoming / Jewelle L. Gomez -- This person doesn't sound white / Ziba Kashef -- In strangers' glances at family, tensions linger / Susan Saulny -- Family ties and the entanglements of Caste / Joseph Berger -- Pigskin patriarchy, and pain / Don Sabo -- The slave side of Sunday / Dave Zirin -- He defies you still: the memoirs of a sissy / Tommi Avicolli -- Requiem for the champ / June Jordan -- Against 'bullying" or On loving queer kids / Richard Kim -- Before spring break, the anorexic challenge / Alex Williams -- The case of Sharon Kowalski and Karen Thompson: ableism, heterosixism, and sexism / Joan L. Griscom -- Misconceptions regarding the body / Jennifer Bartlett -- C.P. Ellis / Studs Terkel. Part VII. Victory: the trimpant gay revolution / Indian tribes: a continuing quest for survival / Linda Hirshman. An act for the better ordering and governing of negroes and slaves, South Carolina, 1712 -- The "Three-Fifths Compromise" The U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 2 -- An act prohibiting the teaching of slaves to read -- Declaration of sentiments and resolutions, Seneca Falls Convention, 1848 -- The antisuffragists selected papers, 1852-1887 -- People v. Hall, 1854 -- Dred Scott v. Sandford, 1857 -- The Emancipation Proclamation / Abraham Lincoln -- United States Constitution: Thirteenth (1865), Fourteenth (1868), and Fifteenth (1870) Amendments -- The Black Codes / W.E.B. Du Bois -- Bradwell v. Illinois, 1873 -- Minor v. Happersett, 1875 -- California Constitution, 1876 -- Elk v. Wilkins, 1884 -- Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896 -- United States Constitution: Nineteenth Amendment (1920) -- Korematsu v. United States, 1944 -- Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 1954 -- Roe v. Wade, 1973 -- The Equal Rights Amendment (defeated) -- Lawrence et al. v. Texas, 2003 -- Equal protection indeed: a federal appeals court overturns California's Gay-Marriage ban / The Economist -- Victory: the trimpant gay revolution / Linda Hirshman. Part IX. Demand the impossible / Self-fulfilling stereotypes / Matthew Rothschild. Anti-gay sterotypes / Richard D. Mohr -- White lies / Maurice Berger -- Am I thin enough yet? / Sharlene Hesse-Biber -- Advertising at the edge of the apocalyse / Sut Jhally -- The Plutocratic culture: institutions, values, and ideologies / Michael Parenti -- Media magic: making class invisible / Gregory Mantsios -- Still separate, still unequal: America's educational apartheid / Jonathan Kozol -- Masked racism: reflections on the prison industrial complex / Angela Davis -- Part IX. Social Change: Revisioning the Future and Making a Difference -- Age, race, class, and sex: women redefining difference / Audre Lorde -- Feminism: a transformational politic / bell hooks -- A new vision of masculinity / Cooper Thompson -- Interrupting the cycle of oppression: the role of allies as agents of change / Andrea Ayvazian -- Rethinking volunteerism in America / Gavin Leonard -- Occupy Wall Street: the most important thing in the world now / Naomi Klein -- Beyond elections; people power / Mark Bittman -- Demand the impossible / Matthew Rothschild.
Summary:
Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Study presents students with a compelling, clear study of issues of race, gender, and sexuality within the context of class. Rothenberg offers students 126 readings, each providing different perspectives and examining the ways in which race, gender, class, and sexuality are socially constructed. Rothenberg deftly and consistently helps students analyze each phenomena, as well as the relationships among them, thereby deepening their understanding of each issue surrounding race and ethnicity.
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