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Tables of Contents for Race, Class, and Gender in the United States
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INTRODUCTION
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6
PART I: THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF DIFFERENCE: RACE, CLASS, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY
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74
1 Racial Formations
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10
Michael Omi
Howard Winant
2 The Ethics of Living Jim Crow: An Autobiographical Sketch
23
9
Richard Wright
3 Rethinking Women's Biology
32
1
Ruth Hubbard
4 The Social Construction of Gender
33
13
Judith Lorber
5 Ah, Ya Throw Like a Girl!
46
2
Mike Messner
6 * In a Male-Centered World, Female Differences Are Transformed into Female Disadvantages
48
4
Sandra Lipsitz Bem
7 The Social Construction of Sexuality
52
3
Ruth Hubbard
8 * The Invention of Heterosexuality
55
12
Jonathan Ned Katz
9 Deconstructing the Underclass
67
6
Herbert Gans
10 Domination and Subordination
73
8
Jean Baker Miller
Suggestions for Further Reading
79
2
PART II: "US" AND "THEM": BECOMING AN AMERICAN
81
49
1 * Who Is an American?
84
8
Eric Foner
2 * "Is This a White Country, or What?"
92
8
Lillian Rubin
3 * How Jews Became White
100
15
Karen Brodkin Sacks
4 * Asian-American History Rises above Pitfalls for Trail of Success: Ups, Downs Compared to Plight of Blacks
115
3
Jonathan Tilove
5 * Baiting Immigrants: Heartbreak for Latinos
118
3
Mercedes Lynn De Uriarte
6 * The Border Patrol State
121
4
Leslie Marmon Silko
7 * Five Myths about Immigration
125
5
David Cole
Suggestions for Further Reading
128
2
PART III: UNDERSTANDING RACISM, SEXISM, AND CLASS PRIVILEGE
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1 The Problem: Discrimination U. S. Commission on Civil Rights
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11
2 Oppression
146
4
Marilyn Frye
3 Racism: Something about the Subject Makes It Hard to Name
150
4
Gloria Yamato
4 Smells Like Racism
154
11
Rita Chaudhry Sethi
5 * White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
165
5
Peggy McIntosh
6 * Racial Relations Becoming More Complex across Country
170
5
Jonathan Tilove
7 Death of a Teenager Widens a Racial Rift between Two Towns
175
8
Alex Kotlowitz
8 Gang Rape
183
5
David Gonzalez
Garry Pierre-Pierre
Suggestions for Further Reading
187
1
PART IV: THE ECONOMICS OF RACE, CLASS, AND GENDER IN THE UNITED STATES
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1 * Imagine a Country
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10
Holly Sklar
2 * Class in America: Myths and Realities
202
13
Gregory Mantsios
3 * Who Killed the Middle Class?
215
5
John Cassidy
4 * Family Struggles to Make Do after Fall from Middle Class
220
5
Dirk Johnson
5 Middle-Class Blacks Try to Grip a Ladder While Lending a Hand
225
3
Isabel Wilkerson
6 * Persistent Racial Segregation Mars Suburbs' Green Dream
228
6
Diana Jean Schemo
7 * The Wage Gap: Myths and Facts
234
4
National Committee on Pay-Equity
8 * How Workplaces May Look without Affirmative Action
238
3
Jonathan Kaufman
9 Women Face Glass Walls as Well as Ceilings
241
1
Julie Amparano Lopez
10 * Welfare: Exploding the Stereotypes
242
7
Rita Henley Jensen
11 * What Scholars Can Tell Politicians about the Poor
249
6
Katherine S. Newman
Suggestions for Further Reading
253
2
PART V: MANY VOICES, MANY LIVES: SOME CONSEQUENCES OF RACIAL, GENDER, AND CLASS INEQUALITY
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1 Racial and Ethnic Minorities: An Overview
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12
Beth B. Hess
Elizabeth W. Markson
Peter J. Stein
2 * On Being South Asian in North America
270
7
Chandra Talpade Mohanty
3 Then Came the War
277
7
Yuri Kochiyama
4 * An Ethnic Trump
284
2
Gish Jen
5 TV Arabs
286
2
Jack G. Shaheen
6 The Circuit
288
4
Francisco Jimenez
7 The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria
292
5
Judith Ortiz Cofer
8 * Aria: A Bilingual Childhood
297
9
Richard Rodriguez
9 * Arturo
306
2
Maria Mazziotti Gillan
10 Suicide Note
308
2
Janice Mirikitani
11 * Pursuit of Happiness
310
2
Dympna Ugwu-Oju
12 Black Hispanics: The Ties That Bind
312
3
Vivian Brady
13 Blacks and Hispanics: A Fragile Alliance
315
4
Jacqueline Conciatore
Roberto Rodriguez
14 * What I Learned about Jews
319
6
Joe Wood
15 Pigskin, Patriarchy, and Pain
325
3
Don Sabo
16 He Defies You Still: The Memoirs of a Sissy
328
6
Tommi Avicolli
17 With No Immediate Cause
334
2
Ntozake Shange
18 * When Street Harassment Gets Nasty
336
2
Teresa Yunker
19 The Triangular Tube of Pink Lipstick
338
1
Gail Watnick
20 "We Are Who You Are": Feminism and Disability
339
7
Bonnie Sherr Klein
21 * The Case of Sharon Kowalski and Karen Thompson: Ableism, Heterosexism, and Sexism
346
10
Joan L. Griscom
22 Requiem for the Champ
356
3
June Jordan
23 C. P. Ellis
359
11
Studs Terkel
Suggestions for Further Reading
368
2
PART VI: HOW IT HAPPENED: RACE AND GENDER ISSUES IN U.S. LAW
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1 Indian Tribes: A Continuing Quest for Survival
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5
U.S. Commission on Human Rights
2 An Act for the Better Ordering and Governing of Negroes and Slaves, South Carolina, 1712
383
5
3 The "Three-Fifths Compromise": The U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 2
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4 An Act Prohibiting the Teaching of Salves to Read
389
1
5 Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, Seneca Falls Convention, 1848
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4
6 The Antisuffragists: Selected Papers, 1852-1887
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5
7 People v. Hall, 1854
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8 Dred Scott v. Sandford, 1856
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4
9 The Emancipation Proclamation
405
2
Abraham Lincoln
10 United States Constitution: Thirteenth (1865), Fourteenth (1868), and Fifteenth (1870) Amendments
407
1
11 The Black Codes
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8
W. E. B. Du Bois
12 Bradwell v. Illinois, 1873
416
2
13 Minor v. Happersett, 1874
418
1
14 California Constitution, 1876
419
1
15 Elk v. Wilkins, 1884
420
1
16 Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896
421
3
17 United States Constitution: Nineteenth Amendment (1920)
424
1
18 Korematsu v. United States, 1944
425
4
19 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 1954
429
5
20 Roe v. Wade, 1973
434
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21 The Equal Rights Amendment (Defeated)
434
1
22 Bowers v. Hardwick, 1986
435
2
23 * Confronting Obstacles to Lesbian and Gay Equality
437
11
Paula L. Ettelbrick
Suggestions for Further Reading
446
2
PART VII: CREATING AND MAINTAINING HIERARCHIES: STEREOTYPES, IDEOLOGY, LANGUAGE, VIOLENCE, AND SOCIAL CONTROL
448
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1 Self-Fulfilling Stereotypes
452
6
Mark Snyder
2 Anti-Gay Stereotypes
458
7
Richard D. Mohr
3 Racism in the English Language
465
10
Robert B. Moore
4 Sex and Race: The Analogy of Social Control
475
14
William Chafe
5 * Am I Thin Enough Yet?
489
8
Sharlene Hesse-Biber
6 Pulling Train
497
6
Peggy R. Sanday
7 * Failing at Fairness: How America's Schools Cheat Girls
503
6
Myra
David Sadker
8 * Tracking
509
1
Mary Kennedy Carter
9 Media Magic: Making Class Invisible
510
9
Gregory Mantsios
10 Blaming the Victim
519
11
William Ryan
Suggestions for Further Reading
529
1
PART VIII: REVISIONING THE FUTURE
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1 Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference
533
7
Audre Lorde
2 En rapport, In Opposition: Cobrando cuentas a las nuestras
540
6
Gloria Anzaldua
3 Up Against the Wall
546
3
Cherrie Moraga
4 Toward a More Caring Society
549
10
Ruth Sidel
5 A New Vision of Masculinity
559
6
Cooper Thompson
6 Homophobia as a Weapon of Sexism
565
9
Suzanne Pharr
7 * Narrowing the Income Gap between Rich and Poor
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5
Michael Hout
Samuel R. Lucas
8 Feminism: A Transformational Politic
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7
bell hooks
9 Still I Rise
586
2
Maya Angelou
10 The woman in the ordinary
588
7
Marge Piercy
Suggestions for Further Reading
588
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INDEX
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