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IDENTITY
Part I: Racial and Ethnic Identity
1 *I Walk Alone by Lonnie Poco
2 Ethnicity in American Life: The Historical Perspective by John Hope Franklin
3 *American Anthropological Association Statement on "Race"
4 The Loudest Voice by Grace Paley
5 To be Hopi or American by Polingaysi Qoyawayma (Elizabeth Q. White)
6 *People of Color Who Never Felt They Were Black by Darryl Fears
7 *Rosa Wakefield by John Langston Gwaltney
8 *I Am a Racially Profiling Doctor by Sally Satel
9 *Are Doctor's Offices Places for Racial Profiling?
10 *El Hilo Que Nos Une
11 *The Thread That Binds Us: Becoming a Puerto Rican Woman by Celia Alvarez
12 *In Search of Bruce Lee's Grave by Shanlon Wu
13 *Remembering My Grandmother, Remembering Lebanon by Therese Saliba
14 American Dreamer by Bharati Mukherjee
15 On the Other Side of the War: A Story by Elizabeth Gordon
16 *Medicalization of Racial Features: Asian-American Women and Cosmetic Surgery by Eugenia Kaw
17 *Before the Great Gorge by Carlos Cumpian
18 Beyond the Melting Pot by William A. Henry III

Part II: Gender Identity
19 In the Beginning There Are Babies by Angela Phillips
20 Time Warp in the Toy Store by Ellen J. Reifler
21 How Women are Treated in Language by Janet Shibley Hyde
22 Gender Roles and Ethnicity by Janet Shibley Hyde
23 *August Genesis by Rebecca Fiske
24 Where I Come From is Like This by Paula Gunn Allen
25 The Male Role Stereotype by Doug Cooper Thompson
26 Taking It by Leonard Kriegel
27 Tears Still Taboo for Average Guy by Carl Ryan
28 Asymmetries in Communication by Deborah Tannen

Part III: Sexual Identity
29 *A Transsexual's Story by Jessica Stearns
30 *Two Sexes are Not Enough by Anne Fausto-Sterling
31 *Cold Feet: Why America Has Gay Marriage Jitters by Elisabeth Bumiller
32 *When the Political is Personal by Ann Marie Nicolosi
33 *Putting a Face on Difference: A Gay Family Visits the College Classroom by Mildred L. Rice Jordan

Part IV: Economics and the American Dream
34 *This is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona by Sherman Alexie
35 Decloaking Class: Why Class Identity and Consciousness Count by Janet Zandy
36 Looking for Work by Gary Soto
37 The Truth About Growing Up Rich by Sallie Bingham
38 The Working Mother as Fashion Victim by Jody Kolodzey
39 To Be Black, Gifted, and Alone by Bebe Moore Campbell
40 Keeping Close to Home: Class and Education by bell hooks
41 Jewish and Working Class by Bernice Mennis
42 First They Changed My Name... by Caffilene Allen
43 Daddy Tucked the Blanket by Randall Williams
44 Something is Robbing Our Children of Their Future by Colin Greer
45 Mother Courage by Ariel Gore
46 We're Not Bums by Peter Swet
47 Poverty or at Home in a Car by Jackie Spinks
48 The Fall by Marge Piercy

POWER
Part V: Power and Racism
49 Rethinking America by Evelyn Hu-DeHart
50 Historical Discrimination in the Immigration Laws by U. S. Commission on Civil Rights
51 Anti-Immigrant Violence by Southern Poverty Law Center
52 *2-205 by Reshma Baig
53 Something About the Subject Makes It Hard to Name by Gloria Yamato
54 White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh
55 Native Americans v. The U. S. Government by Michael Dorris
56 *Urban Indians by Roberta Fiske-Rusciano
57 Sex, Class and Race Intersections: Visions of Women of Color by Carol Lee Sanchez
58 Crimes Against Humanity by Ward Churchill
59 Beyond Stereotyping by Daniela Gioseffi
60 Anti-Semitism in the United States by Robert Cherry
61 Seeing More than Black and White by Elizabeth Martinez
62*"The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria" by Judith Ortiz Kofer
63 Behind Barbed Wire by John Hersey
64 *A Personal Narrative by Susan Shimizu Taira
65 Asian Americans Battle "Model Minority" Stereotype by Robert Daseler
66 Inter-Racial Violence: Conflicts and Class and Culture by Michael Laslett
67 "Jim Crow" Law by Benjamin Quarles
68 *Jim Crow Revived in Cyberspace by Greg Palast and Martin Luther King III
69 The Negro A Beast... or in the Image of God? by Earl Ofari Hutchinson
70 Emmett Louis Till, 1941-1955 by Southern Poverty Law Center
71 As Media Furor Subsides, Jasper Sorts Out Its Future by Kyle Johnson
72 Terror in Our Neighborhoods by The Klanwatch Project of the Southern Poverty Law Center
73 Real Minority, Media Majority by Salin Mulwakkil
74 Subtle vs. Overt Racism by David K. Shipler
75 Blacks Feel Indignities by Robert Anthony Watts

Part VI: Power and Sexism
76 *Manhood on the Mat by Jackson Katz and Sut Jhally
77 *The Conservative Case for Gay Marriage by Andrew Sullivan
78 How the Entertainment Industry Degrades Women by Martha Burk and Kirsten Shaw
79 *Gender Warriors Fight the Wrong Battle by Laura Sessions Stepp
80 *Losing a Church, Keeping the Faith by Andrew Sullivan
81 Foul Play by Kathleen Sharp
82 Reincarnating Freud by Susana McCollom
83 Our Bodies, Their Selves by Katrine Ames
84 The Nature of the Beast by Anita Hill
85 Like a Smack in the Face: Pornography in the Trades by Barbara Trees
86 Bad Sports by Mariah Burton Nelson
87 A More Hidden Crime: Adolescent Battered Women by Nancy Worcester
88 *Why Doesn't She Just Leave? by Clarethia Ellerbee
89 Rape and Sexual Assault by James A. Doyle
90 Fraternities of Fear by Kathleen Hirsch
91 "The Rape" of Mr. Smith by Unknown
92 Forbidden Fruit by Anne Finger
93 *Certain Words Can Trip Up AIDS Grants, Scientists Say by Erica Goode
94 Mothers of Convention by Lindsy Van Gelder
95 What's Fair in Love and War by Randy Shilts

Part VII Power and Classism
96 Imagine a Country by Holly Sklar
97 The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison by Jeffrey H. Reiman
98 The Great Divide by David Moberg
99 Unprotected Work by Christopher D. Cook
100 Normalizing Poverty by Celine-Marie Pascale
101 Institutionalized Discrimination by Robert Cherry
102 Jury Whops Insurer by Lesley Brown
103 Single Mothers and Welfare by Ellen L. Bassuk, Angela Browne, and John C. Buckner
104 The Gestapo of Welfare Reform by Lucky Jean
105 Persistent Welfare Stereotypes by Renu Nahata
106 A Way Out by Rita Henley Jensen
107 The Root Causes of Homelessness in American Cities by Doug A. Timmer, D. Stanley Eitzen, and Kathryn D. Talley
108 Sidewalk Mercenaries vs. Homeless by Christian Parenti

CHANGE
Part VIII: Taking Action
109 *Affirmative Action: The Sequel by Orlando Patterson
110 Diversity and Its Discontents by Arturo Madrid
111 Choosing Disability by Laura Hershey
112 *Breakfast at Perkins by Derek Schork
113 The Push for Power by Eloise Salholz
114 Going Public with our Vision by Charlotte Bunch
115 A Manifesto for Men by Andrew Kimbrell
116 *Lesbian Teen Sues District for Bias by Peter Y. Hong
117 The Campus Environment for Gay and Lesbian Life by John D'Emillio
118 Resistance to Change by Kathleen Ryan
119 The Campus Climate for Gay Students by Robert A. Rhoads
120 Psychologists Find Ways to Break Racism's Hold by Daniel Goleman
121 Battered Women by Cynthia Diehm and Margo Ross
122 Freedom for the Thought We Hate by Gerald Gunther
123 Acknowledging the Victims' Cry by Charles R. Lawrence III

Part IX: Change Makers
124 Victory at Arnot by Mary Harris "Mother" Jones
125 The Organizer's Tale by Cesar Chavez
126 Workers Demand Rights by Louise Palmer
127 Free at Last by Southern Poverty Law Center
128 The Movement by Anne Moody
129 Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Muriel Tillinghast
130 "Don't Tell Us It Can't Be Done" by Michael Ryan
131 Saving Native Lands by Valerie Taliman
132 Ceclia Fire Thunder: She Inspires Her People by Ann Davis
133 How I Changed the Governor's Mind by Renee La Couture Tulloch
134 Friends of Justice: Take Heart by Deb Price
135 Negotiating Passion on Campus by Bonnie Pfister
136 A Daughter's Story by Dawn Atkins
137 A Mother's Story by Mary E. Atkins

Part X: Race, Class, and Gender After 9/11
138 *Flag Raising at Ground Zero by The Iowa State Daily
139 *Immigrant Families Condemn Racial Targeting by Tram Nguyen
140 *America's Challenge: Domestic Security, Civil Liberties, and National Unity after September 11 by Muzaffar A. Chishti, Doris Meissner, Demetrios G. Papademetriou, Jay Peterzell, Michael J. Wishnie, and Stephen W. Yale-Loehr
141 *Feminist Perspectives on 9/11 by J. Ann Tickner
142 *Seeing Islam as "Evil" Faith, Evangelicals Seek Converts by Laurie Goodstein
143 *"Empty Seats in the Lifeboat": 9/11 Stalls Refugees by Donovan Slack
144 *Working Class Women as War Heroes by Farai Chideya