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Preface
About the Contributors
Introduction: Rethinking the Color Line: Understanding How Boundaries Shift
Part I: Sorting by Color: Why We Attach Meaning to Race
Race and Ethnicity: Sociohistoric Constructions and…
1. How Our Skins Got Their Color, Marvin Harris
*2. Drawing the Color Line, Howard Zinn
3. Racial Formations, Michael Omi and Howard Winant
4. Theoretical Perspectives in Race and Ethnic Relations, Joe R. Feagin and Clairece Booher Feagin
*5. Racialized Social System Approach to Racism, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
…Contemporary Socioeconomic Trends
6. An Overview of Trends in Social and Economic Well-Being, by Race, Rebecca M. Blank
*7. The Color of Health in the United States, David R. Williams and Chiquita Collins
*8. Transformative Assets, the Racial Wealth Gap and the American Dream, Thomas M. Shapiro
Race as Chameleon: How the Idea of Race Changes Over Time and Place
*9. Placing Race in Context, Clara E. Rodriguez and Hector Cordero-Guzman
10. A Tour of Indian People and Indian Lands, David E. Wilkins
11. Asian American Panethnicity: Bridging Institutions and Identities, Yen Le Espiritu
*12. Beyond Black and White: Remaking Race in America, Jennifer Lee and Frank D. Bean
Colorblind America: Fact, Fantasy or Our Future?
*13. Color Blind Privilege: The Social and Political Functions of Erasing the Color Line in Post-Race America, Charles A. Gallagher
*14. The Ideology of Colorblindness, Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres
*15. The Possibility of a New Racial Hierarchy in the Twenty-First-Century United States, Herbert J. Gans
Part II: Prejudice, Discrimination, and Racism Understanding Racism
16. Race Prejudice as a Sense of Group Position, Herbert Blumer
17. Discrimination and the American Creed, Robert K. Merton
*18. Race and Civil Rights Pre-September 11, 2001: The Targeting of Arabs and Muslims, Susan M. Akram and Kevin R. Johnson
19. The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: Racialized Social Democracy, George Lipsitz
20. The Continuing Significance of Race: Antiblack Discrimination in Public Places, Joe R. Feagin
How Space Gets Raced
*21. Residential Segregation and Neighborhood Conditions in U.S. Metropolitan Areas, Douglas S. Massey
*22. The Code of the Streets, Elijah Anderson
23. Environmental Justice in the 21st Century: Race Still Matters, Robert D. Bullard
24. Savage Inequalities, Jonathan Kozol
*25. Why Are There No Supermarkets in My Neighborhood?: The Long Search for Fresh Fruit, Produce and Healthy Food, Shannon N. Zenk (et.al)
Part III: Racialized Opportunity in Social Institutions
Race and Criminal Justice: Oxymoron or an American Tragedy
*26. No Equal Justice: The Color of Punishment, David Cole
27. Race and Criminalization: Black Americans and the Punishment Industry, Angela Y. Davis
28. .…and the Poor Get Prison, Jeffrey Reiman
*29. The Mark of a Criminal Record, Devah Pager
How Race Shapes the Workplace
*30. Kristin v. Aisha; Brad v. Rasheed: What’s in a Name and How It Affects Getting a Job, Amy Braverman
31. When the Melting Pot Boils Over: The Irish, Jews, Blacks, and Koreans of New York, Roger Waldinger
32. “There’s No Shame in My Game”: Status and Stigma Among Harlem’s Working Poor, Katherine S. Newman and Catherine Ellis
*33. Sweatshops in Sunset Park: A Variation of Late Twentieth-Century Chinese Garment Shops in New York City, Xiaolan Bao
*34. Hispanics in the American South and the Transformation of the Poultry Industry, William Kandel and Emilio A. Parrado
Race, Representations and the Media
Drug Dealers, Maids and Mammies: The Role of Stereotypes in the Media
*35. Broadcast News Portrayal of Minorities: Accuracy in Reporting, Roger D. Klein and Stacy Naccarato
36. Television and the Politics of Representation, Justin Lewis and Sut Jhally
37. Distorted Reality: Hispanic Characters in TV Entertainment, S. Robert Lichter and Daniel R. Amundson
Crazy Horse Malt Liquor and Athletes: The Tenacity of Stereotypes
*38. Winnebagos, Cherokees, Apaches, and Dakotas: The Persistence of Stereotyping of American Indians in American Advertising Brands, Debra Merskin
*39. Sport in America: The New Racial Stereotypes, Richard E. Lapchick
Part IV: How America’s Complexion Changes
Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration
*40. The Melting Pot and the Color Line, Stephen Steinberg
41. The Changing Face of America: Immigration, Race/Ethnicity, and Social Mobility, Min Zhou
42. The Arab Immigrant Experience, Michael W. Suleiman
43. Ethnic and Racial Identities of Second-Generation Black Immigrants in New York City, Mary C. Waters
Race and Romance: Blurring Boundaries
*44. Captain Kirk Kisses Lieutenant Uhura: Interracial Intimacies—The View From Hollywood, Randall Kennedy
45. Discovering Racial Borders, Heather M. Dalmage
46. The Changing Face of America: Intermarriage and the Mixed Race Movement, Frank Wu
47. Ten Truths of Interracial Marriage, Maria Root
Living With Less Racism: Strategies for Individual Action
48. Ten Simple Things You Can Do To Improve Race Relations, Charles A. Gallagher
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