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Race, Class, and Gender in the United States

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ISBN-10: 1572599502

ISBN-13: 9781572599505

Edition: 5th 2001

Authors: Rothenberg

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A comprehensive collection of essays that focus on similarities and differences between and among forms of oppression and emphasize the ways in which issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality intersect. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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List price: $44.95
Edition: 5th
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Worth Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/15/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 608
Size: 5.54" wide x 10.36" long x 1.32" tall
Weight: 2.090
Language: English

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The Social Construction of Difference: Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality
Racial Formations
The Ethics of Living Jim Crow: An Autobiographical Sketch
Constructing Race, Creating White Privilege
How Jews Became White
Night to His Day: The Social Construction of Gender
The Social Construction of Sexuality
The Invention of Heterosexuality
Masculinity as Homophobia: Fear, Shame, and Silence in the Construction of Gender Identity
Disability and the Justification of Inequality in American History
Deconstructing the Underclass
Domination and Subordination
Suggestions for Further Reading
Understanding Racism, Sexism, Heterosexism, and Class Privilege
Defining Racism: "Can We Talk?"
On the Nature of Contemporary Prejudice: the Causes, Consequences, and Challenges of Aversive Racism
Smells Like Racism
Race Relations Becoming More Complex Across the Country
Racism and Sexism
Patriarchy
Oppression
Homophobia As a Weapon of Sexism
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
Class in America -- 2003
Suggestions for Further Reading
Discrimination in Everyday Life
The Problem: Discrimination, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
Racial Disparities Seen As Pervasive in Juvenile Justice
"White" Names Give Job Seekers an Edge
Equality at Work Remains Elusive
Wal-Martyrs
Sex Bias Cited in Vocational Ed
EEOC Files Sexual Harrassment Suit Against Denny's
Anti-Muslim Crimes Jump after Sept. 11 in Jersey and U.S.
Asian American Journalists Association Objects to Syndicated Cartoonist's Use of Racist Stereotypes of Asians
EEOC Sues Arizona Diner for National Origin Bias against Navajos and Other Native Americans, EEOC
Poll Finds Latinos are Objects of Negative Perceptions
Injured Laborers File $66M Suit: Suing Men Charged in Bias Attacks
Store Staff Sue Bosses Over Abuse
The Loneliest Athletes
Attacks on Gays Upset Los Angeles Suburb
When Bias Hits Golf, All Eyes on Tiger
America's Impossible Dream: A House
Minority Health Care Found Lacking
Study Finds the Nation's Public School Districts are Resegregating by Race
Colleges Out of Reach for Low-Income Students
Are America's Schools Leaving Latinas Behind?, AAUW
The All-Boy Network: Public Affairs Shows Reflect Shortage of Women in Power
Despite Some Progress, Minorities Remain an Unseen Presence
Students Defend Icon that Offends
The Baby Boy Pay Off
Suggestions for Further Reading
The Economics of Race, Class and Gender in the United States
Imagine a Country--2003
Number of People Living in Poverty Increases in U.S.
CEOs: New Century
Still at the Periphery: The Economic Status of African Americans
Being Black, Living in the Red: Wealth Matters
The Son's Also Rise
The Wage Gap, National Committee on Pay Equity
Her Next Step? Growing Numbers of American Women Face Retirement Financially Insecure
Billionaire's Ex-Wife Wants $4,400 a Day to Raise Daughter
The Education of Jessica Rivera
What Scholars Can Tell Politicians About the Poor
Suggestions for Further Reading
Many Voices, Many Lives: Some Consequences of Racial, Gender, and Class Inequality
Census 2000 Shows America's Diversity
America 2000: A Map of the Mix
Then Came the War
Yellow
Asian American?
Suicide Note
TV Arabs
Yes, I Follow Islam, But I'm Not a Terrorist
The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria
Los Intersticios: Recasting Moving Selves
The Circuit
What I Learned about Jews
Pigskin, Patriarchy, and Pain
He Defies You Still: The Memoirs of a Sissy
With No Immediate Cause
Requiem for the Champ
School Shootings and White Denial
Out of the Closet but Not Out of Middle School
Her Son/Daughter
More and More Young Women Choose Surgical "Perfection"
Finding My Eye-Dentity
The Case of Sharon Kowalski and Karen Thompson: Ableism, Heterosexism, and Sexism
Lame
A Farewell Wish: That Women Be Heard
C.P. Ellis - Studs Terkel
Suggestions for Further Reading
How It Happened: Race and Gender Issues in U.S. Law
Indian Tribes: A Continuing Quest for Survival, U.S. Commission on Human Rights
An Act for the Better Ordering and Governing of Negroes and Slaves, South Carolina, 1712
The "Three-Fifths Compromise": In the United States Constitution Article I, Section 2
An Act Prohibiting the Teaching of Slaves to Read
Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, Seneca Falls Convention, 1848
The Anti-Suffragists: Selected Papers, 1852-1887
People v. Hall, 1854
Dred Scot v. Sanford, 1857
The Emancipation Proclamation, Abraham Lincoln
United States Constitution: Thirteenth (1865), Fourteenth (1868), and Fifteenth (1870) Amendments
The Black Codes, W.E.B. Du Bois
Bradwell v. Illinois, 1875
Minor v. Happersett, 1875
California Constitution, 1876
Elk v. Wilkins, November 3, 1884
Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896
United States Constitution: Nineteenth Amendment (1920)
Korematsu v. United States, 1944
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 1954
Roe v. Wade, 1973
Equal Rights Amendment (defeated)
Bowers v. Hardwick, 1986
Lesbian and Gay Rights in Historical Perspective
Suggestions for Further Reading
Maintaining Race, Class, and Gender Hierarchies: Social Control
Where Bias Begins: The Truth About Stereotypes
Anti-Gay Stereotypes
White Lies
Am I Thin Enough Yet?
Pulling Train
Sex and Race: The Analogy of Social Control
Media Magic: Making Class Invisible
Masked Racism: Reflections on the Prison Industrial Complex
Blaming the Victim
Language, Culture, and Reality
Suggestions for Further Reading
Making a Difference: Social Activism
Interrupting the Cycle of Oppression: The Role of Allies as Agents of Change
Combatting Intentional Bigotry and Inadvertently Racist Acts
Confronting Anti-Gay Violence
Rice Shirts Make More than Fashion Statement
Sweats and Tears: A Protest is Sweeping US Campuses to End the Use of Sweatshops to Produce College-Endorsed Clothes
United Students Against Sweatshops
Students Spend Spring Break Protesting Taco Bell
Narrowing the Income Gap between Rich and Poor
A Clean Sweep: The SEIU's Organizing Drive for Janitors Shows How Unionization Can Raise Wages
Recipe for Organizing
Child of the Americas
Suggestions for Further Reading
Index