Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Study

684 Pages·2016·8.459 MB·English

by  Paula S. Rothenberg

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rial explores citizenship and immigration, mass incarceration, sex crimes on campus,
transgender identity, the school-to-prison pipeline, food insecurity, the Black Lives
Matter movement, the pathology of poverty, socioeconomic privilege versus racial
privilege, pollution on tribal lands, stereotype threat, gentrification, and more. I R
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• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates DS
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• Domestic Workers Bill of Rights by Ai-jen Poo A RACE, CLASS,
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• My Class Didn’t Trump My Race by Robin DiAngelo SE GENDER
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• Transgender Feminism: Queering the Woman Question by Susan Stryker

• Debunking the Pathology of Poverty by Susan Greenbaum AN INTEGRATED STUDY
• The Transgender Crucible, reporting on the life and imprisonment of
transgender activist CeCe McDonald, by Sabrina Rubin Erdely
• Neither Black nor White, on the racialization of Asian Americans, by
Angelo Ancheta
• “You are in the dark, in the car…” from Citizen: An American Lyric by
Claudia Rankine
• When You Forget to Whistle Vivaldi by Tressie McMillan Cottom
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RACE, CLASS,
GENDER
AND
UNITED STATES
IN THE
AN INTEGRATED STUDY
Tenth Edition
Paula S. Rothenberg

with
Soniya Munshi
Borough of Manhattan
Community College
New York
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CO N T E N TS
Selection Title v
Preface xiii
About the Author xix
Introduction 1
PARTSelection Title  vI The Social Construction of Difference:
Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality
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1 Racial Formations
Michael Omi and Howard Winant 11
2 Constructing Race, Creating White Privilege
Pem Davidson Buck 21
3 How Jews Became White Folks: And What That
Says About Race in America Karen Brodkin 27
4 “Night to His Day”: The Social Construction
of Gender Judith Lorber 38
5 The Invention of Heterosexuality
Jonathan Ned Katz 47
6 Masculinity as Homophobia: Fear, Shame
and Silence in the Construction of Gender
Identity Michael S. Kimmel 59
7 Transgender Feminism: Queering the Woman
Question Susan Stryker 71
8 Debunking the Pathology of Poverty
Susan Greenbaum 78
9 Disability and the Justification of Inequality
in American History Douglas C. Baynton 81
10 Domination and Subordination Jean Baker Miller 91
Suggestions for Further Reading 97
v
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vi Contents
PARTSelection Title viII Understanding Racism, Sexism,
Heterosexism, and Class Privilege
99
1 Defining Racism: “Can We Talk?”
Beverly Daniel Tatum 105
2 Color- Blind Racism Eduardo Bonilla- Silva 113
3 Neither Black nor White Angelo N. Ancheta 120
4 Oppression Marilyn Frye 130
5 Homophobia as a Weapon of Sexism Suzanne Pharr 134
6 Class in America Gregory Mantsios 144
7 Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life
Annette Lareau 163
8 Intersectionality: An Everyday Metaphor Anyone
Can Use Kimberlé Crenshaw, interviewed by
Bim Adewunmi 171
9 White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
Peggy McIntosh 176
10 My Class Didn’t Trump My Race: Using Oppression
to Face Privilege Robin J. DiAngelo 181
Suggestions for Further Reading 188
PARTSelection Title IviII Complicating Questions of Identity:
Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration
191
1 Immigration in the United States: New Economic,
Social, Political Landscapes with Legislative Reform
on the Horizon Faye Hipsman and Doris Meissner 195
2 Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens
and the Making of America Mae Ngai 207
3 Los Intersticios: Recasting Moving Selves
Evelyn Alsultany 218
4 For Many Latinos, Racial Identity Is More Culture
than Color Mireya Navarro 220
5 Black Ethnics: Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit
of the American Dream Christina M. Greer 224
6 The Myth of the Model Minority Noy Thrupkaew 230
7 How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?
Moustafa Bayoumi 237
Suggestions for Further Reading 242
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Contents vii
PARTSelection Ti tle vIiiV Discrimination in Everyday Life 243
1 The Problem: Discrimination
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights 247
2 The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the
Age of Colorblindness Michelle Alexander 258
3 Deportations Are Down, But Fear Persists Among
Undocumented Immigrants Tim Henderson 266
4 The Ghosts of Stonewall: Policing Gender, Policing Sex
Joey L. Mogul, Andrea J. Ritchie, and Kay Whitlak 270
5 The Transgender Crucible Sabrina Rubin Erdely 276
6 Where “English Only” Falls Short Stacy A. Teicher 285
7 My Black Skin Makes My White Coat Vanish
Mana Lumumba- Kasongo 288
8 Women in the State Police: Trouble in the Ranks
Jonathan Schuppe 290
9 Muslim- American Running Back Off the Team
at New Mexico State Matthew Rothschild 294
10 Race, Disability, and the School- to- Prison Pipeline
Julianne Hing 296
11 The Segregated Classrooms of a Proudly
Diverse School Jeffrey Gettleman 304
12 Race and Family Income of Students Influence Guidance
Counselor’s Advice, Study Finds Eric Hoover 307
13 By the Numbers: Sex Crimes on Campus
Dave Gustafson 308
14 More Blacks Live with Pollution The Associated Press 313
15 Pollution, Poverty and People of Color:
A Michigan Tribe Battles a Global Corporation
Brian Bienkowski 316
16 Testimony Sonny Singh 322
Suggestions for Further Reading 325
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viii Contents
PARTSelection Title viiiV The Economics of Race,
Class, and Gender
327
1 Imagine a Country Holly Sklar 329
2 Wealth Inequality Has Widened Along Racial, Ethnic
Lines Since End of Great Recession
Rakesh Kochhar and Richard Fry 340
3 The Making of the American 99% and the Collapse
of the Middle Class Barbara Ehrenreich
and John Ehrenreich 344
4 Immigration Enforcement as a Race- Making
Institution Douglas S. Massey 348
5 For Asian Americans, Wealth Stereotypes
Don’t Fit Reality Seth Freed Wessler 361
6 Gender and the Black Jobs Crisis Linda Burnham 364
7 Domestic Workers Bill of Rights: A Feminist Approach
for a New Economy Ai- jen Poo 373
8 “Savage Inequalities” Revisited Bob Feldman 378
9 The New Face of Hunger Tracie McMillan 382
10 “I am Alena”: Life as a Trans Woman Where Survival
Means Living as Christopher Ed Pilkington 387
11 Cause of Death: Inequality Alejandro Reuss 393
12 Inequality Undermines Democracy Eduardo Porter 398
Suggestions for Further Reading 401
PARTSelection T itle Vviii I Many Voices, Many Lives:
Issues of Race, Class, Gender,
and Sexuality in Everyday Life
403
1 Civilize Them with a Stick
Mary Brave Bird (Crow Dog) with Richard Erdoes 407
2 Then Came the War Yuri Kochiyama 411
3 Crossing the Border Without Losing Your Past
Oscar Casares 419
4 Between the World and Me Ta- Nehisi Coates 421
5 “I wouldn’t have come if I’d known.” E. Tammy Kim 425
6 This Person Doesn’t Sound White Ziba Kashef 428
7 “You are in the dark, in the car . . .” Claudia Rankine 432
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Contents ix
8 He Defies You Still: The Memoirs of a Sissy
Tommi Avicolli 434
9 Against “Bullying” or On Loving Queer Kids
Richard Kim 440
10 The Case of Sharon Kowalski and Karen Thompson:
Ableism, Heterosexism, and Sexism Joan L. Griscom 443
11 Gentrification Will Drive My Uncle Out of His
Neighborhood, and I Will Have Helped Eric Rodriguez 451
12 My Vassar College Faculty ID Makes Everything OK
Kiese Laymon 453
13 The Unbearable (In)visibility of Being Trans
Chase Strangio 460
14 Black Bodies in Motion and in Pain Edwidge Danticat 463
Suggestions for Further Reading 466
PARTSelec tion TVitle ix II How It Happened: Race and Gender
Issues in U.S. Law
469
1 Indian Tribes: A Continuing Quest for Survival
U.S. Commission on Human Rights 477
2 An Act for the Better Ordering and Governing of
Negroes and Slaves, South Carolina, 1712 482
3 The “ Three- Fifths Compromise”
The U.S. Constitution, Article 1, Section 2 487
4 An Act Prohibiting the Teaching of Slaves to Read 488
5 Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions,
Seneca Falls Convention, 1848 489
6 People v. Hall, 1854 493
7 Dred Scott v. Sandford, 1857 495
8 The Emancipation Proclamation Abraham Lincoln 499
9 United States Constitution: Thirteenth (1865),
Fourteenth (1868), and Fifteenth (1870) Amendments 501
10 The Black Codes W. E. B. Du Bois 503
11 The Chinese Exclusion Act 511
12 Elk v. Wilkins, 1884 514
13 Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896 516
14 United States Constitution: Nineteenth
Amendment (1920) 519
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