Preface |
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SECTION I---CONSTRUCTING CATEGORIES OF DIFFERENCE |
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Who Is Black? One Nation's Definition |
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37 | (8) |
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The Evolution of Identity |
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45 | (1) |
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Census 2000: Seventeen Questions from the Long Form |
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46 | (3) |
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Real Indians: Identity and the Survival of Native America |
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49 | (8) |
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Latinos in the U.S. Race Structure |
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57 | (7) |
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Personal Account: What's in a Name? |
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63 | (1) |
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Tripping on the Color Line: Black-White Multiracial Families in a Racially Divided World |
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64 | (5) |
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Personal Account: The Best of Both Worlds |
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Asian American Panethnicity |
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69 | (11) |
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Personal Account: I Thought My Race Was Invisible |
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79 | (1) |
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Whiteness as an ``Unmarked'' Cultural Category |
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80 | (7) |
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What Is Sex? What Is Gender? |
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The Five Sexes: Why Male and Female Are Not Enough |
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87 | (4) |
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91 | (9) |
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100 | (9) |
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Personal Account: Basketball |
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108 | (1) |
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It's Your Gender, Stupid! |
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109 | (6) |
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What's Class Got to Do with It? |
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115 | (3) |
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Getting Ahead: Economic and Social Mobility in America |
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118 | (8) |
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Personal Account: Lucky Americans |
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125 | (1) |
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America's Economic Transformation |
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126 | (9) |
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Personal Account: I Am a Pakistani Woman |
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134 | (1) |
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America |
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135 | (11) |
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This Hard-Earned Money Comes Stuffed in Their Genes |
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146 | (2) |
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What Is Sexual Orientation? |
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The Hazards of Naming Sexual Attraction |
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148 | (5) |
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Personal Account: Living Invisibly |
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153 | (1) |
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153 | (3) |
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The End of Gay (and the Death of Heterosexuality) |
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156 | (9) |
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SECTION II---EXPERIENCING DIFFERENCE |
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165 | (29) |
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194 | (5) |
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199 | (1) |
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Everybody's Ethnic Enigma |
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200 | (1) |
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Ethnic Identity and Racial Formations: Race and Racism American-Style and a lo Latino |
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201 | (6) |
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207 | (6) |
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Personal Account: Play Some Rolling Stones |
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213 | (1) |
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``Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?'' |
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213 | (10) |
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223 | (11) |
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A Day in the Life of Two Americas |
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234 | (4) |
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At a Slaughterhouse, Some Things Never Die |
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238 | (9) |
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Diversity and Its Discontents |
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247 | (5) |
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Fast Girls: Teenage Tribes and the Myth of the Slut |
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252 | (6) |
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Personal Account: Just Something You Did as a Man |
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258 | (1) |
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How Do We Know What Manhood Really Is? |
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258 | (5) |
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Personal Account: He Hit Her |
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262 | (1) |
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Chappals and Gym Shorts: An Indian-Muslim Woman in the Land of Oz |
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263 | (4) |
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Anti-gay Slurs Common at School: A Lesson in Cruelty |
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267 | (3) |
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Personal Account: An Opportunity to Get Even |
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269 | (1) |
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For Children of Gays, Marriage Brings Joy |
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270 | (2) |
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272 | (4) |
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Michael Patrick MacDonald |
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276 | (7) |
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Personal Account: That Moment of Visibility |
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282 | (1) |
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Why are Droves of Unqualified, Unprepared Kids Getting into Our Top Colleges? Because Their Dads Are Alumni |
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283 | (5) |
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288 | (8) |
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Personal Account: I Am Legally Blind |
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295 | (1) |
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``Can You See the Rainbow?'' The Roots of Denial |
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296 | (8) |
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SECTION III---THE MEANING OF DIFFERENCE |
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304 | (17) |
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Law, Politics, and Policy |
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Thirteen Supreme Court Cases and the Civil War Amendments |
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321 | (28) |
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Social Movements and the Politics of Difference |
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349 | (12) |
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After Brown: The Rise and Retreat of School Desegregation |
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361 | (10) |
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The Minority Rights Revolution |
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371 | (7) |
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The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics |
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378 | (5) |
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383 | (4) |
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Gender Discrimination in the Workplace |
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387 | (9) |
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The Bankruptcy of Virtuous Markets: Racial Inequality, Poverty, and ``Individual Failure'' |
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396 | (8) |
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Personal Account: Just Like My Mama Said |
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403 | (1) |
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The Model Minority: Asian American ``Success'' as a Race Relations Failure |
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404 | (8) |
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Personal Account: Let Me Work for It |
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411 | (1) |
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412 | (6) |
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Disability Definitions: The Politics of Meaning |
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418 | (4) |
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Cause of Death: Inequality |
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422 | (3) |
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Generation E.A.: Ethnically Ambiguous |
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425 | (2) |
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Patriarchy Gets Funky: The Triumph of Identity Marketing |
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427 | (5) |
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432 | (6) |
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Black Men: How to Perpetuate Prejudice without Really Trying |
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438 | (7) |
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Racism in the English Language |
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445 | (7) |
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Gender Stereotyping in the English Language |
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452 | (6) |
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Let's Spread the ``Fun'' Around: The Issue of Sports Team Names and Mascots |
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458 | (2) |
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To Be and Be Seen: The Politics of Reality |
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460 | (8) |
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SECTION IV---BRIDGING DIFFERENCES |
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468 | (8) |
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Influencing Public Policy |
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476 | (10) |
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What Can We Do? Becoming Part of the Solution |
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486 | (5) |
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Personal Account: Parents' Underestimated Love |
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490 | (1) |
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491 | (3) |
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Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice |
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Personal Account: Where Are You From? |
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Permissions |
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Index |
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