Routledge International Handbook of Race, Class and Gender

296 Pages·2015·2.575 MB·English

by  Shirley Jackson

Routledge International
Handbook of Race,
Class, and Gender
The R outledge International Handbook of Race, Class, and Gender chronicles the development,
growth, history, impact, and future direction of race, gender, and class studies from a multi-
disciplinary perspective. The research in this subfi eld has been wide- ranging, including
works in sociology, gender studies, anthropology, political science, social policy, history, and
public health. As a result, the interdisciplinary nature of race, gender, and class and its ability
to reach a large audience has been part of its appeal. The Handbook provides clear and inform-
ative essays by experts from a variety of disciplines, addressing the diverse and
broad-b ased impact of race, gender, and class studies.
The Handbook is aimed at undergraduate and graduate students who are looking for a basic
history, overview of key themes, and future directions for the study of the intersection of
race, class, and gender. Scholars new to the area will also fi nd the Handbook’s approach useful.
The areas covered and the accompanying references will provide readers with
extensive opportunities to engage in future research in the area.
Shirley A. Jackson’ s areas of specialization are race and ethnicity; gender; social move-
ments; skin color; and community. Dr. Jackson has done research on race/skin color and
class in Cuba since the Cuban Revolution. She has traveled to Cuba several times. She also
does work on African American women’s organizations and on race, gender, and violence in
editorial cartoons. Dr. Jackson is an active member of several professional sociology
associations.
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Routledge International
Handbook of Race,
Class, and Gender
Edited by Shirley A. Jackson
First published 2015
by Routledge
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Library of Congress Cataloging-i n-Publication Data
Routledge international handbook of race, class and gender / edited
by Shirley Jackson.
pages cm
1. Race. 2. Social classes. 3. Sex. 4. Social sciences–Research.
I. Jackson, Shirley- editor of compilation.
HT1521.R687 2014
305–dc23
2013049198
ISBN: 978-0-415-63271-3 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-203-09545-4 (ebk)
Typeset in Bembo
by Refi neCatch Limited, Bungay, Suffolk
In loving memory of my grandparents
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Contents
List of fi gures xi
List of tables xii
Notes on contributors xiii
PART I
Theorizing race, class, and gender studies 1
1 Conceptualizing intersectionality in superordination:
masculinities, whitenesses, and dominant classes 3
Cliff Leek and Michael Kimmel
2 Unpacking the intersections of identity and politics and the politics of
studying identity: a black feminist theoretical and epistemological tool kit 10
Adryan Wallace
PART II
Conversations on race, class, and gender 19
3 Diffi cult conversations: race, class and gender in White Australia 21
Brendan Churchill, Joselynn Baltra-Ulloa and Robyn Moore
4 Making visible the invisible: cultural scripts that inform
relationships among African American women 29
Toy Lisa Mitchell
5 Intersections in everyday conversations: racetalk, classtalk,
and gendertalk in the workplace 44
David G. Embrick and Kasey Henricks
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Contents
PART III
Race, class, gender, and migration 59
6 Anti-i mmigrant sentiments and immigrant concentration at
work in contemporary Japan 61
Hiromi Ono and Hiroshi Ono
7 Kurdish migrant women negotiating the complex web
of gender, class, and ethnicity in the city 73
Ozge Sensoy Bahar
8 Muslim women and work in Scotland 84
Masoumeh Velayati
PART IV
Race, class, gender, and sexualities 103
9 Sex as subversion: the ethnosexual protestor and the
ethnosexual defender 105
Robert Reece
10 Herbivore masculinity: opposition or accommodation to
hegemonic masculinity? 117
Justin Charlebois
11 The (pink) elephant in the room: the structure and experience of
race and violence in the lives of transgender prisoners in California 128
Jennifer Sumner, Lori Sexton, Valerie Jenness, and Cheryl L. Maxson
PART V
Race, class, gender, and education 145
12 The role of ethnicity, class, and gender in social capital formation:
a case study of supportive peer networks among Somali
working- class immigrant adolescents 147
Moosung Lee
13 Race, class, gender, and online courses in the academy: new
questions for the twenty- fi rst century 161
Amitra A. Wall, Susan Mary Paige, and Joseph Marren
14 Facing ethnic, gender, and class inequality in academia 169
Nina Toren
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Contents
PART VI
Race, class, gender, and work 181
15 The empirical challenge of intersectionality: understanding race,
class, and gender through a study of occupations 183
Enobong Hannah Branch
16 Professional ghettoization: the clustering of workers at the
intersections of gender, race, (and class) 194
Joy Kadowaki
PART VII
Cultural contexts and identity 205
17 Realities and fl uidity of race, class, and gender: different
places, times, and contexts 207
Shobha Hamal Gurung
18 “We’re 80 percent more patriotic”: Atlanta’s Muslim
South Asian Americans and cultural citizenship 220
Stanley Thangaraj
PART VIII
Conclusion: contemporary trends in the
intersection of race, class, and gender 231
19 Race, colour and class in Caribbean society 233
Roy McCree
20 Gender, caste, and class: structural violence in India 240
Mangala Subramaniam and Preethi Krishnan Ramaswamy
21 A decade of little change: gender, race and ethnicity in state
legislatures, 2003–2012 249
Elizabeth M. Esterchild and Ray L. Darville
Index 268
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