Rethinking the Color Line: Readings in Race and Ethnicity, 5/e
Charles A. Gallagher,
La Salle University
ISBN: 0078026636 Copyright year: 2012
Table of Contents
Preface Introduction RETHINKING THE COLOR LINE: Understanding How Boundaries Shift Part I SORTING BY COLOR: Why We Attach Meaning to Race (A) Race and Ethnicity: Sociohistoric Constructions
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. Defining Race and Ethnicity C. Matthew Snipp
5. Racialized Social System Approach to Racism Eduardo Bonilla-Silva (0.0K)Seeing the Big Picture: The Social Construction of Race, 1790–2000
(B) Race and Ethnicity: Contemporary Socioeconomic Trends
6. Understanding Racial-Ethnic Disparities in Health: Sociological Contributions David R. Williams and Michelle Sternthal (0.0K)Seeing the Big Picture: How Race Can Be Hazardous to Your Health
7. Transformative Assets, the Racial Wealth Gap, and the American Dream Thomas M. Shapiro (0.0K)Seeing the Big Picture: The Color of Money
(C) Race as Chameleon: How the Idea of Race Changes over Time and Place
8. Defining Race: Comparative Perspectives F. James Davis (0.0K) Seeing the Big Picture: What Was Your Race in 1890?
9. A Tour of Indian Peoples and Indian Lands David E. Wilkins (0.0K)Seeing the Big Picture: From Riches to the “Res” (Reservation System)
10. Asian American Panethnicity: Contemporary National and Transnational Possibilities Yen Le Espiritu (0.0K)Seeing the Big Picture: Panethnic Fortunes: Riches and Rags
11. Beyond Black and White: Remaking Race in America Jennifer Lee and Frank D. Bean (0.0K)Seeing the Big Picture: Check All That Apply (Finally!): The Institutionalization of Mixed Race Identity
(D) Color-Blind America: Fact, Fantasy, or Our Future?
12. Color-Blind Privilege: The Social and Political Functions of Erasing the Color Line in Post-Race America Charles A. Gallagher
13. The Ideology of Color Blindness Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres (0.0K)Seeing the Big Picture: Color-Blind or Blind to Color?
14. The Possibility of a New Racial Hierarchy in the Twenty-First-Century United States Herbert J. Gans
Part II PREJUDICE, DISCRIMINATION, AND RACISM (A) Understanding Racism
15. Race Prejudice as a Sense of Group Position Herbert Blumer (0.0K)Seeing the Big Picture: Racism: Group Position or Individual Belief?
16. Race and Gender Discrimination: Contemporary Trends James Sterba
17. Discrimination and the American Creed Robert K. Merton
18. How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in America Moustafa Bayoumi (0.0K)Seeing the Big Picture: America’s New Public Enemy?
19. The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: Racialized Social Democracy George Lipsitz (0.0K)Seeing the Big Picture: Race as an Investment
20. Laissez-Faire Racism, Racial Inequality, and the Role of the Social Sciences Lawrence D. Bobo
(B) How Space Gets Raced
21. Residential Segregation and Neighborhood Conditions in U.S. Metropolitan Areas Douglas S. Massey (0.0K)Seeing the Big Picture: How Integrated Is Your Neighborhood?
22. The Code of the Streets Elijah Anderson
23. Environmental Justice in the 21st Century: Race Still Matters Robert D. Bullard
24. Race, Religion, and the Color Line (Or Is That the Color Wall?) Michael O. Emerson
25. Why Are There No Supermarkets in My Neighborhood? The Long Search for Fresh Fruit, Produce, and Healthy Food Shannon N. Zenk (et al.) (0.0K)Seeing the Big Picture: Urban Food Deserts: Race, Health, and the Lack of “Real” Food
Part III RACIALIZED OPPORTUNITY IN SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS (A) Race and Criminal Justice: Oxymoron or an American Tragedy?
26. No Equal Justice: The Color of Punishment David Cole (0.0K)Seeing the Big Picture: How Race Tips the Scales of Justice
27. The New Jim Crow Michelle Alexander
28. Racialized Mass Incarceration: Rounding Up the Usual Suspects Lawrence D. Bobo, Victor Thompson and Michele Alexander (0.0K)Seeing the Big Picture: The Color of Incarceration Rates
29. The Mark of a Criminal Record Devah Pager (0.0K)Seeing the Big Picture: The Link between Race, Education, Employment, and Crime
30. Using DNA for Justice: Color-blind or Biased? Sheldon Krimsky and Tania Simoncelli
(B) How Race Shapes the Workplace
31. Kristen v. Aisha; Brad v. Rasheed: What’s in a Name and How It Affects Getting a Job Amy Braverman
32. When the Melting Pot Boils Over: The Irish, Jews, Blacks, and Koreans of New York Roger Waldinger (0.0K)Seeing the Big Picture: Who’s Got the “Good” Jobs and Why
33. “There’s No Shame in My Game”: Status and Stigma among Harlem’s Working Poor Katherine S. Newman and Catherine Ellis
34. Sweatshops in Sunset Park: A Variation of the Late-Twentieth-Century Chinese Garment Shops in New York City Xiaolan Bao
35. Hispanics in the American South and the Transformation of the Poultry Industry William Kandel and Emilio A. Parrado (0.0K)Seeing the Big Picture: How Is Upward Mobility Linked to Education, Occupation, and Immigration?
(C) Race, Representations, and the Media
36. Racism and Popular Culture Danielle Dirks and Jennifer Mueller
37. The Media as a System of Racialization: Exploring Images of African American Women and the New Racism Marci Bounds Littlefield
38. Black and White in Movies: Portrayals of Black-White Biracial Characters in Movies Alicia Edison and George Yancey
(0.0K)Seeing the Big Picture: How the Media Shape Race Relations
(D) Crazy Horse Malt Liquor and Athletes: The Tenacity of Stereotypes
39. Winnebagos, Cherokees, Apaches, and Dakotas: The Persistence of Stereotyping of American Indians in American Advertising and Brands Debra Merskin (0.0K)Seeing the Big Picture: The Tomahawk Chop: Racism in Image and Action
40. Sport in America: The New Racial Stereotypes Richard E. Lapchick (0.0K)Seeing the Big Picture: Television’s Interracial Images: Some Fact, Mostly Fiction
Part IV HOW AMERICA’S COMPLEXION CHANGES (A) Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration
41. The Melting Pot and the Color Line Stephen Steinberg (0.0K)Seeing the Big Picture: Who Is Allowed to “Melt” in the Pot? Who Wants To?
42. Who Are the Other African Americans? Contemporary African and Caribbean Immigrants in the United States John R. Logan
43. The Arab Immigrant Experience Michael W. Suleiman
44. Ethnic and Racial Identities of Second-Generation Black Immigrants in New York City Mary C. Waters (0.0K)Seeing the Big Picture: Is a Nonethnic Racial Identity Possible?
(B) Race and Romance: Blurring Boundaries
45. Guess Who’s Been Coming to Dinner? Trends in Interracial Marriage over the 20th Century Roland G. Fryer Jr.
46. Captain Kirk Kisses Lieutenant Uhura: Interracial Intimacies—The View from Hollywood Randall L. Kennedy (0.0K)Seeing the Big Picture: Love May Be Blind, but It’s Not Color-Blind
47. Discovering Racial Borders Heather M. Dalmage
48. Redrawing the Color Line? The Problems and Possibilities of Multiracial Families and Group Making Kimberly McClain DaCosta (0.0K)Seeing the Big Picture: Interracial Marriage and the Blurring of the Color Line
(C) Living with Less Racism: Strategies for Individual Action
49. Policy Steps toward Closing the Gap Meizhu Lui, Bárbara J. Robles, Betsy Leondar-Wright, Rose M. Brewer, and Rebecca Adamson
50. Ten Things You Can Do to Improve Race Relations Charles A. Gallagher
Appendix: Race by the Numbers: America’s Racial Report Card
Notes and References