Race, Class, and Gender in the United States : An Integrated Study
by RothenbergEdition: 6th
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Pub. Date: 2003-07-03
Publisher(s): Worth Publishers
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Summary
Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Studypresents 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.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The Social Construction of Difference: Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality | p. 7 |
| Racial Formations | p. 13 |
| The Ethics of Living Jim Crow: An Autobiographical Sketch | p. 23 |
| Rethinking Women's Biology | p. 32 |
| The Social Construction of Gender | p. 33 |
| Ah, Ya Throw Like a Girl! | p. 46 |
| In a Male-Centered World, Female Differences Are Transformed into Female Disadvantages | p. 48 |
| The Social Construction of Sexuality | p. 52 |
| The Invention of Heterosexuality | p. 55 |
| Deconstructing the Underclass | p. 67 |
| Domination and Subordination | p. 73 |
| Suggestions for Further Reading | p. 79 |
| "Us" and "Them": Becoming an American | p. 81 |
| Who Is an American? | p. 84 |
| "Is This a White Country, or What?" | p. 92 |
| How Jews Became White | p. 100 |
| Asian-American History Rises above Pitfalls for Trail of Success: Ups, Downs Compared to Plight of Blacks | p. 115 |
| Baiting Immigrants: Heartbreak for Latinos | p. 118 |
| The Border Patrol State | p. 121 |
| Five Myths about Immigration | p. 125 |
| Suggestions for Further Reading | p. 128 |
| Understanding Racism, Sexism, and Class Privilege | p. 130 |
| The Problem: Discrimination | p. 135 |
| Oppression | p. 146 |
| Racism: Something about the Subject Makes It Hard to Name | p. 150 |
| Smells Like Racism | p. 154 |
| White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack | p. 165 |
| Racial Relations Becoming More Complex across Country | p. 170 |
| Death of a Teenager Widens a Racial Rift between Two Towns | p. 175 |
| Gang Rape | p. 183 |
| Suggestions for Further Reading | p. 187 |
| The Economics of Race, Class, and Gender in the United States | p. 188 |
| Imagine a Country | p. 192 |
| Class in America: Myths and Realities | p. 202 |
| Who Killed the Middle Class? | p. 215 |
| Family Struggles to Make Do after Fall from Middle Class | p. 220 |
| Middle-Class Blacks Try to Grip a Ladder While Lending a Hand | p. 225 |
| Persistent Racial Segregation Mars Suburbs' Green Dream | p. 228 |
| The Wage Gap: Myths and Facts | p. 234 |
| How Workplaces May Look without Affirmative Action | p. 238 |
| Women Face Glass Walls as Well as Ceilings | p. 241 |
| Welfare: Exploding the Stereotypes | p. 242 |
| What Scholars Can Tell Politicians about the Poor | p. 249 |
| Suggestions for Further Reading | p. 253 |
| Many Voices, Many Lives: Some Consequences of Racial, Gender, and Class Inequality | p. 255 |
| Racial and Ethnic Minorities: An Overview | p. 258 |
| On Being South Asian in North America | p. 270 |
| Then Came the War | p. 277 |
| An Ethnic Trump | p. 284 |
| TV Arabs | p. 286 |
| The Circuit | p. 288 |
| The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria | p. 292 |
| Aria: A Bilingual Childhood | p. 297 |
| Arturo | p. 306 |
| Suicide Note | p. 308 |
| Pursuit of Happiness | p. 310 |
| Black Hispanics: The Ties That Bind | p. 312 |
| Blacks and Hispanics: A Fragile Alliance | p. 315 |
| What I Learned about Jews | p. 319 |
| Pigskin, Patriarchy, and Pain | p. 325 |
| He Defies You Still: The Memoirs of a Sissy | p. 328 |
| With No Immediate Cause | p. 334 |
| When Street Harassment Gets Nasty | p. 336 |
| The Triangular Tube of Pink Lipstick | p. 338 |
| "We Are Who You Are": Feminism and Disability | p. 339 |
| The Case of Sharon Kowalski and Karen Thompson: Ableism, Heterosexism, and Sexism | p. 346 |
| Requiem for the Champ | p. 356 |
| C. P. Ellis | p. 359 |
| Suggestions for Further Reading | p. 368 |
| How it Happened: Race and Gender Issues in U.S. Law | p. 370 |
| Indian Tribes: A Continuing Quest for Survival | p. 378 |
| An Act for the Better Ordering and Governing of Negroes and Slaves, South Carolina, 1712 | p. 383 |
| The "Three-Fifths Compromise": The U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 2 | p. 388 |
| An Act Prohibiting the Teaching of Slaves to Read | p. 389 |
| Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, Seneca Falls Convention, 1848 | p. 390 |
| The Antisuffragists: Selected Papers, 1852-1887 | p. 394 |
| People v. Hall, 1854 | p. 399 |
| Dred Scott v. Sandford, 1856 | p. 401 |
| The Emancipation Proclamation | p. 405 |
| United States Constitution: Thirteenth (1865), Fourteenth (1868), and Fifteenth (1870) Amendments | p. 407 |
| The Black Codes | p. 408 |
| Bradwell v. Illinois, 1873 | p. 416 |
| Minor v. Happersett, 1874 | p. 418 |
| California Constitution, 1876 | p. 419 |
| Elk v. Wilkins, 1884 | p. 420 |
| Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896 | p. 421 |
| United States Constitution: Nineteenth Amendment (1920) | p. 424 |
| Korematsu v. United States, 1944 | p. 425 |
| Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 1954 | p. 429 |
| Roe v. Wade, 1973 | p. 434 |
| The Equal Rights Amendment (Defeated) | p. 434 |
| Bowers v. Hardwick, 1986 | p. 435 |
| Confronting Obstacles to Lesbian and Gay Equality | p. 437 |
| Suggestions for Further Reading | p. 446 |
| Creating and Maintaining Hierarchies: Stereotypes, Ideology, Language, Violence, and Social Control | p. 448 |
| Self-Fulfilling Stereotypes | p. 452 |
| Anti-Gay Stereotypes | p. 458 |
| Racism in the English Language | p. 465 |
| Sex and Race: The Analogy of Social Control | p. 475 |
| Am I Thin Enough Yet? | p. 489 |
| Pulling Train | p. 497 |
| Failing at Faimess: How America's Schools Cheat Girls | p. 503 |
| Tracking | p. 509 |
| Media Magic: Making Class Invisible | p. 510 |
| Blaming the Victim | p. 519 |
| Suggestions for Further Reading | p. 529 |
| Revisioning the Future | p. 530 |
| Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference | p. 533 |
| En rapport, In Opposition: Cobrando cuentas a las nuestras | p. 540 |
| Up Against the Wall | p. 546 |
| Toward a More Caring Society | p. 549 |
| A New Vision of Masculinity | p. 559 |
| Homophobia as a Weapon of Sexism | p. 565 |
| Narrowing the Income Gap between Rich and Poor | p. 574 |
| Feminism: A Transformational Politic | p. 579 |
| Still I Rise | p. 586 |
| The woman in the ordinary | p. 588 |
| Suggestions for Further Reading | p. 588 |
| Index | p. 595 |
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