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SECTION I Framework Essay: CONSTRUCTING CATEGORIES OF DIFFERENCE

What is Race?
1. Who Is Black? One Nation's Definition, F. James Davis
2. The Evolution of Identity, Washington Post Federal Page
3. Census 2000: Seventeen questions from the long form
4. Real Indians, Eva Marie Garroutte (from her book, by the same title)*
5. Latinos in the U.S. Race Structure, Clara E. Rodriguez (from her book, Changing Race: Latinos, the Census, and the History of Ethnicity in the United States)*
6. Tripping on the Color Line: Black-White multiracial families in a racially divided world, Heather M. Dalmage (from book of same title, same author)
7. Asian American Panethnicity, Yen Le Espiritu
8. Whiteness as an 'Unmarked' Cultural Category, Ruth Frankenberg
Personal Account: A Wonderful Opportunity, R.M.A
Personal Account: I Thought My Race Was Invisible, Sherri H. Pereira
What Is Sex? What Is Gender? 9. The Five Sexes: Why Male and Female Are Not Enough, Anne Fausto-Sterling
10. The Berdache Tradition, Walter L. Williams
11. The Gendered Society, Michael S. Kimmel (from book by same name, same author)
12. It’s Your Gender, Stupid!, Riki Wilchins (from GenderQueer, by Joan Nestle, Clare Howell, and Riki Wilchins)
Personal Account: He Hit Her, Tim Norton
What Is Social Class? 13. What’s Class got to do with it?, Michael Zweig (from his book by the same title)*
14. Getting Ahead: Economic and Social Mobility in America, Daniel McMurrer and Isabel Sawhill
15. America’s Economic Transformation, Nancy Weifek (from her book, The Impact of Economic Anxiety in Postindustrial America)*
16. Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich (from her book by the same title)*
17. This Hard-Earned Money Comes Stuffed in their Genes, Dusty Horwitt (his article, this title, Washington Post)*
Personal Account: I Am a Pakistani Woman, Hoorie I. Siddique
What Is Sexual Orientation? 18. The Hazards of Naming Sexual Attraction, Michael R. Kauth (from his book, True Nature: A Theory of Sexual Attraction)*
19, Is Homosexual a Noun?, Paul R. Abramson and Steven D. Pinkerton (from their book, With Pleasure: on the nature of human sexuality)*
20. The End of Gay (and the Death of Heterosexuality), Bert Archer (from book of same title)*
Personal Account: An Opportunity to Get Even, Carol A. Mabry
Personal Account:Living Invisibly, Tara S. Ellison

SECTION II

Framework Essay: EXPERIENCING DIFFERENCE 21. Oppression, Marilyn Frye Race and Ethnicity 22. What Are You? Joanne Nobuko Miyamoto
23. Everybody’s Ethnic Enigma, Jelita McLeod (from the Washington Post)*
24. The Day of Remembrance Ceremony, Lydia Minatoya
25. Ethnic Identity and Racial Formations: Race and racism American-style and a lo latino, Marta Cruz-Janzen (from Transnational Latina/o Communities, by Carlos Velez-Ibanez and Anna Sampaio*
26. The Cost of Whiteness, Thandeka
27. Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?, Beverly Daniel Tatum (from the book by the same name)*
28. The Minority Quarterback, Ira Berkow (from How Race is Lived in America, by the correspondents of the New York Times)*
29. A Day in the Life of Two Americas, Leonard Steinhorn and Barbara Diggs-Brown
30. At A Slaughterhouse: Some Things Never Die, Charlie LeDuff
31. Diversity and Its Discontents, Arturo Madrid
32. The Model Minority, Asian American ?success? as a race relations failure, Frank Wu (from Yellow, by same author)*
Personal Account: Play Some Rolling Stones, Mark Donald Stockenberg
Personal Account: Going Home, Keeva Haynes
Personal Account: Where Are You From? C.C
Sex and Gender 33. Fast Girls: Teenage tribes and the myth of the slut, Emily White (from book by author, same name)*
34. How do We Know What Manhood Really Is?, John Stoltenberg (from The End of Manhood by Stoltenberg)*
35. Chappals and Gym Shorts: An Indian-Muslim woman in the land of Oz, Almas Sayeed (from Colonize This! By Daisy Hernandez and Bushra Rehman)*
Sexual Orientation 36. Anti-Gay Slurs Common at School: A Lesson in Cruelty, Laura Sessions Stepp
37. For Children of Gays, Marriage Brings Joy, Patricia Leigh Brown (Washington Post)
Personal Account: A White Male Rescued Me, Meticia Watson
Social Class 38. All Souls, Michael Patrick MacDonald
39. Stupid Rich Bastards, Laurel Johnson Black (from
Richard Delgado and Jean STefanicic, Critical White Studies)*
40. Why Are Droves of Unqualified, Unprepared Kids Getting into Our Top Colleges? Because Their Dads Are Alumni, John Larew
Personal Account: That Moment of Visibility, Rose B. Pascarell
Dis/Ability 41. Public Transit, John Hockenberry (from Voices from the Edge, Ruth O’Brien)*
42. ‘Can You See the Rainbow?' The Roots of Denial, Sally French
Personal Account: I Am Legally Blind, Beth Omansky Gordon

SECTION III Framework Essay: THE MEANING OF DIFFERENCE

Law, Politics, and Policy 43. Twelve Key Supreme Court Cases
44. Social Movements and the Politics of Difference, Cheryl Zarlenga Kerchis and Iris Marion Young
45. After Brown: The rise and retreat of school desegregation, Charles T. Clotfelter (from his book by the same title)*
46. The Minority Rights Revolution, John D. Skrentny (from his book, by the same title)*3. The Possessive
47. The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics, George Lipsitz
48. What’s Good Enough?, Peter Schrag (his article from the Nation)*
Personal Account: Memories of Summer Camp, Patricia Kelly
Economy 49. Strangers Among Us: How Latino Immigration Is Transforming America, Robert Suro Gender
50. Discrimination in the Workplace, Jeanette N. Cleveland, Margaret Stockdale, Kevin R. Murphy (from their book, Women and Men in Organizations)*
51. The Bankruptcy of Virtuous Markets, Michael K. Brown, Martin Carnoy, Elliott Currie, Troy Duster, David B. Oppenheimer, Marjorie M. Schultz, David Wellman (from Whitewashing Race: The myth of a color-blind society, same authors)*
Personal Account: Just Like My Mama Said, Anthony McNeill
Science 52. A World of Their Own, Liza Mundy (from The Washington Post Magazine)*
53. Disability Definitions: The Politics of Meaning, Michael Oliver
54. Cause of Death: Inequality, Alejandro Reuss (from his article, Dollars and Sense)*
Personal Account: You Can't Forget Humiliation, Amy L. Helm
Personal Account: Seeing Race, Seeing Disability, R.B.
Popular Culture 55. Generation E.A.: Ethnically Ambiguous, Ruth La Ferla (from the New York Times)*
56. Patriarchy Gets Funky: The triumph of identity marketing, Naomi Klein (from No Space, No Choice, No Jobs, No Logo, same author)*
57. Is Race Over?, David R. Roediger (from Colored White, same author)* Black Men: How to perpetuate prejudice without really trying, Barry Glassner (from The Culture of Fear, same author)*
58. Fantasies of the Master Race: The cinematic colonization of American Indians, Ward Churchill (from Acts of Rebellion, same author)*
Personal Account: "Basketball," Andrea M. Busch
Personal Account: Just Something You Did as a Man, Francisco Hernandez
Language 59. Racism in the English Language, Robert B. Moore
60. Gender Stereotyping in the English Language, Laurel Richardson
61. Language Policy and Identity Politics, Ronald Schmidt Sr.
62. Let’s Spread the Fun Around, Ward Churchill (from Acts of Rebellion, same author)*
63. To Be and Be Seen: The Politics of Reality, Marilyn Fry
Personal Account: Becoming a Minority, Elizabeth Lukos
SECTION IV Framework Essay: BRIDGING DIFFERENCES 64. Influencing Public Policy, Jeanine c. Cogan (from Everyday Activism, Michael R. Stevenson and Jeanine C. Cogan)*
65. What can we do? Becoming part of the solution, Allan Johnson (from his book, Privilege, Power, and Difference)*
66. In Defense of Rich Kids, William Upski Wimsatt (from his book, No More Prisons)*
67. Uprooting Racism: How White People can work for racial justice, Paul Kivel (from book of same title, same author)*
* Indicates new reading