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Race, Ethnicity, and Gender Selected Readings

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ISBN-10: 0761988203

ISBN-13: 9780761988205

Edition: 2004

Authors: Joseph F. Healey, Eileen O′Brien

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How should we respond to the challenges of diversity? Race, Ethnicity, and Gender: Selected Readings addresses this question and examines how the United States is growing increasingly diverse in terms of ethnicity, race, gender, language, and culture. Editors Joseph F. Healey and Eileen OBrien provide a unique blend of diverse voices, perspectives, and research on a broad range of race, ethnicity, and gender topics.   Derived in part from the Third Edition of Joseph Healeys best-selling text Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class, this anthology includes expanded and updated versions of the Current Debates, as well as new, additional readings carefully chosen from the research literature.…    
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List price: $46.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/26/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

Joseph F. Healey is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Christopher Newport University in Virginia. He received his PhD in sociology and anthropology from the University of Virginia. An innovative and experienced teacher of numerous race and ethnicity courses, he has written articles on minority groups, the sociology of sport, social movements, and violence, and he is also the author of Statistics: A Tool for Social Research (10th ed., 2014).

<p Eileen O'Brien is an Assistant Professor at SUNY-Brockport where her teaching and research interests range from introductory sociology to courses on race, ethnicity, gender, social class and theory. She authored <i Whites Confront Racism</i (Rowan and Littlefield, 2001) and has co-authored <i White Men on Race</i (Beacon Press, 2003) with Joe Feagin, a pre-eminent scholar on race and ethnic relations. She received her Ph.D. from the U.of Florida in 1999 M.A. from Ohio State in 1996; both degrees in sociology.</p

An Introduction to the Study of Minority Groups in the United States
Diversity in the United States: Questions and Concepts
Narrative Portraits
The Social Construction of Racial Identity Life on the Color Line - Excerpt from "Life on the Color Line"
The Cultural Sources of Prejudice - Excerpt from "Kaffir Boy" Mark Mathabane Mark Mathabane
Readings
Prejudice, Discrimination, and Racism
Using Racial and Ethnic Concepts: The Critical Case of Very Young Children
Experiencing Difference
Current Debates: Race and Sport
The Dominance of Black Athletes Is Genetic
The Argument for Genetic Differences Is Deeply Flawed
Questions to Consider
Assimilation and Pluralism
Narrative Portrait: Assimilation Then and Now
Choosing a Dream: Italians in Hell's Kitchen
Always Running: La Vida Loca
Readings
Divided Fates: Immigrant Children in a Restructured U.S. Economy
"Opening" Faces: The Politics of Cosmetic Surgery and Asian American Women
A Different Mirror
Current Debates: Does Language Diversity Threaten National Unity?
Everyone Should Learn English
Language Diversity Is Not a Threat
Questions to Consider
Understanding the Evolution of Dominant-Minority Relations in the United States
The Development of Minority-Dominant Relation in Pre-Industrial America: The Origins of Slavery
Narrative Portrait: The Lives of Slaves
Life as a Slave Girl
Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb
Readings
Slavery Unwilling to Die: The Historical Development of Systematic Racism
Southern Women, Southern Households
Current Debates: How Did Slavery Affect the Origins of African American Culture?
Slavery Created the African American Culture
African American Culture Was Created by an Interplay of Elements from Africa and America
The Experiences of Female Slaves Has Been Under-Researched and Under-Reported
Question to Consider
Industrialization and Dominant-Minority Relations: From Slavery to Segregation and the Coming of Post-Industrial Society
Narrative Portrait: The Kitchenette
Death on the City Pavement
Readings
The Meaning of Emancipation According to Black Women
Race, Gender and Work: The History of Asian and Asian-American Women
Distinguishing Five Models of Affirmative Action
Current Debates: Affirmative Action
Affirmative Action Casts Suspicions on Legitimate Black Achievement and Depicts African Americans as Incapable
Why We Still Need Affirmative Action
Affirmative Action Should Be Based on Class Rather Than Race
Questions to Consider
Understanding Dominant-Minority Relations in the United States Today
African Americans
Narrative Portrait: The Price of Success
To Be Black, Gifted, and Alone
Readings
I am not a racist but ': mapping White college students' racial ideology in the USA
Race and Criminalization: Black Americans and the Punishment Industry
The Elephant In The Living Room: The Issue Of Race In Close Black/White Friendships
Current Debates: Reparations
Reparations for African Americans in Historical Context
Reparations are an Idea Whose Time has Come
Why I Don't Want Reparations for Slavery
Questions to Consider
Native Americans
Narrative Portrait: Native American Experience and Perspective
Lakota Woman
Listening to the Air
Readings
Trends Among American Indians in the United States
Growing Up Indian
Angry Women are Building: Issues and Struggles Facing American Indian Women Today
Current Debates: Should Columbus Day be Celebrated?
Columbus Day Should be Celebrated
Why Columbus Day Celebrations and Parades Should Be Opposed
The Value of Native American Culture and Indian Identity
Questions to Consider
Hispanic Americans
Narrative Portrait: The Meaning of Macho
Americanization is Tough on Macho
Readings
Mock Spanish: A Site For The Indexical Reproduction Of Racism In American English
Seeing More than Black and White: Latinos, Racism, and the Cultural Divides
Current Debates: Is Immigration Harmful or Helpful to the United States?
Immigration Is Harmful
Immigration Is Not Harmful
We Need to Reframe the Immigration Debate
Questions to Consider
Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
Narrative Portrait: Two Stories of Immigration
Ho Yang
Vo Thi Tam
Readings
The 'Success' Image of Asian Americans: Its Validity, and Its Practical and Theoretical Implications
The Interrelationship Between Anti-Asian Violence and Asian America
Current Debate: Asian American "Success": What Are the Dimensions, Causes, and Implications for Other Minority Groups?
The Success of Japanese Americans is Cultural
The "Success" of Chinese Americans is Structural
The Success of Asian Americans Has Been Exaggerated, In Part to Criticize Other Minority Groups
Questions to Consider
White Ethnic Groups
Narrative Portrait
Ethnicity, Prejudice, and the Irish Political Machine
Readings
How Jews Became White
White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences Through Work in Woman's Studies
Is This A White Country, Or What?
Current Debates: Racial Identity: Whites and Blacks
The Need to Understand Whiteness
Symbolic and Involuntary Ethnicity
Conclusions
Antiracist Solutions
The Emperor's New Clothes
The Racial Preference Licensing Act
The Future of Antiracisms
Abolish the White Race by any means necessary
Being An Ally
Commitment to Combat Racism