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| Preface | |
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| Constructing Differences | |
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| Examining what categories are constructed, how this is done, and why such categories of difference are constructed. | |
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| Race and Ethnicity | |
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| Racial Formations | |
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| Optional Ethnicities: For Whites Only? | |
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| Becoming Suspects | |
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| How Did Jews Become White Folks? | |
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| Social Class | |
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| Race, Wealth, and Equality | |
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| Media Magic: Making Class Invisible | |
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| Doubly Divided: The Racial Wealth Gap | |
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| Getting Corporations off the Public Dole | |
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| Sex and Gender | |
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| The Social Construction of Gender | |
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| The Five Sexes, Revisited | |
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| The Transgender Paradigm Shift toward Free Expression | |
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| Masculinity as Homophobia: Fear, Shame, and Silence in the Construction of Gender Identity | |
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| Sexuality | |
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| The Invention of Heterosexuality | |
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| Sexuality and Gender in Children's Daily Worlds | |
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| Sexual Identity and Bisexual Identities: The Struggle for Self-Description in a Changing Sexual Landscape | |
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| Naming All the Parts | |
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| Maintaining Inequalities: Systems of Oppression and Privilege | |
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| Examining what elements of social structure work to maintain systems of stratification based on constructions of difference. | |
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| Social Institutions: Family | |
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| Our Mothers' Grief: Racial-Ethnic Women and the Maintenance of Families | |
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| Families on the Fault Line: America's Working Class Speaks about the Family, the Economy, Race, and Ethnicity | |
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| Stability and Change in Chicano Men's Family Lives | |
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| Gay and Lesbian Families Are Here | |
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| Social Institutions: Education | |
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| Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools | |
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| Preparing for Power: Cultural Capital and Curricula in America's Elite Boarding Schools | |
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| Civilize Them with a Stick | |
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| Missing in Interaction | |
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| Schools and the Social Control of Sexuality | |
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| Social Institutions: Work and Economy | |
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| Jobless Ghettos: The Social Implications of the Disappearance of Work in Segregated Neighborhoods | |
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| "We'd Love to Hire Them, But... ": The Meaning of Race for Employers | |
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| The Glass Escalator: Hidden Advantages for Men in the "Female" Professions | |
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| Cause of Death: Inequality | |
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| Social Institutions: The State and Public Policy | |
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| Welfare Reform, Family Hardship, and Women of Color | |
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| Beyond Crime and Punishment: Prisons and Inequality | |
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| No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System | |
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| The Effects of Affirmative Action on Other Stakeholders | |
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| The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: Racialized Social Democracy and the "White" Problem in American Studies | |
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| Social Institutions: Media | |
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| Five Decades and Three Hundred Sitcoms about Class and Gender | |
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| Distorted Reality: Hispanic Characters in TV Entertainment | |
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| Gay Characters in Conventional Spaces: Will and Grace and the Situation Comedy Genre | |
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| Metaphors Matter: Disaster Myths, Media Frames, and Their Consequences in Hurricane Katrina | |
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| Language and Culture | |
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| Racism in the English Language | |
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| Self, Identity, and the Naming Question: Reflections on the Language of Disability | |
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| How to Tame a Wild Tongue | |
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| The Dark Side of Sports Symbols | |
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| Violence and Social Control | |
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| Where Race and Gender Meet: Racism, Hate Crimes, and Pornography | |
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| Fraternities and Collegiate Rape Culture: Why Are Some Fraternities More Dangerous Places for Women? | |
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| The Construction of Masculinity and the Triad of Men's Violence | |
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| Homophobia as a Weapon of Sexism | |
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| Experiencing Difference and Inequality in Everyday Life | |
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| Examining the impact of constructions of difference and maintaining inequalities on members of society. | |
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| Making Systems of Privilege Visible | |
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| "Yes, I Follow Islam, But I'm Not a Terrorist" | |
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| A Dozen Demons | |
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| Always Running | |
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| The Story of My Body | |
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| Separated by Deportation | |
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| "Gee, You Don't Seem Like an Indian from the Reservation" | |
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| Living Fearlessly with and within Differences: My Search for Identity beyond Categories and Contradictions | |
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| Nickel-and-Dimed On (Not) Getting by in America | |
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| I Am Your Welfare Reform | |
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| Learning to Fight | |
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| Bisexuality, Feminism, Men and Me | |
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| Resistance and Social Change | |
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| Examining how people working within individual and institutional contexts transform difference from a system of inequality to a system of liberation. | |
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| Toward a New Vision: Race, Class, and Gender as Categories of Analysis and Connection | |
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| Cultural Resistance: Reconstructing Our Own Images | |
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| Good for the 'Hood? | |
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| Seeing More Than Black and White: Latinos, Racism, and the Cultural Divides | |
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| How White People Can Serve as Allies to People of Color in the Struggle to End Racism | |
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| Dismantling Noah's Ark: Gender and Equality | |
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| Voices of a New Movimiento | |
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