User-friendly without sacrificing intellectual or theoretical rigor, this anthology of current research examines contemporary issues and explores new approaches to the study of race and ethnic relations. The featured readings effectively engage students by helping them understand theories and concepts. Active learning in the classroom is encouraged while providing relevance for students from all ethnic, cultural, and economic backgrounds. The fifth edition features ten new articles on such timely topics as:
• The U.S. Census’ changing definition of race and ethnicity
• Race-based disparities in health
• Racial and gender discrimination among racial minorities and women
• Being Arab and American
• How social control maintains racial inequality
• The increase in black and brown incarceration
• How racial bias may affect the use of DNA to locate suspects of crimes
• How derogatory ethnic and racial images are created and disseminated by the media
• The sexualization of African American women through the use of gender stereotypes
• The portrayal of light- and dark-skinned biracial characters
Table of Contents
About the Author
Preface
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
2. Drawing the Color Line
3. Racial Formations
4. Theoretical Perspectives in Race and Ethnic Relations
5. Racialized Social Systems: Understanding Racism
Seeing the Big Picture: The Social Construction of Race 1790-2000
…Contemporary Socioeconomic Trends
6. An Overview of Trends in Social and Economic Well-Being, by Race
Seeing the Big Picture: The Role of Race in Social Mobility
7. The Color of Health in the United States
Seeing the Big Picture: How Race Can Be Hazardous to Your Health
8. Transformative Assets, The Racial Wealth Gap and the American Dream
Seeing the Big Picture: The Color of Money
Race as Chameleon: How the Idea of Race Changes Over Time and Place
9. Defining Race: Comparative Perspectives
Seeing the Big Picture: What was YOUR race in 1890?
10. A Tour of Indian People and Indian Lands
Seeing the Big Picture: From Riches to the “Res” (Reservation System)
11. Asian American Panethnicity: Contemporary National and Transnational Possibilities
Seeing the Big Picture: Panethnic Riches, Panethnic Poverty
12. Beyond Black and White: Remaking Race in America
Seeing the Big Picture: Check All That Apply (Finally!): The Institutionalization of Mixed Race Identity
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
14. The Ideology of Colorblindness
15. The Possibility of a New Racial Hierarchy in the Twenty-First-Century United States
Seeing the Big Picture: Colorblind or Blind to Color?
Part II: Prejudice, Discrimination, and Racism
Understanding Racism
16. Race Prejudice as a Sense of Group Position
Seeing the Big Picture: Racism: Group Position or Individual Belief?
17. Discrimination and the American Creed
18. Race and Civil Rights Pre-September 11, 2001: The Targeting of Arabs and Muslims
Seeing the Big Picture: America’s New Public Enemy?
19. The Possessive Investment in Whiteness
Seeing the Big Picture: Race As an Investment
20. Laissez-Fair Racism, Racial Inequality and the Role of the Social Sciences
How Space Gets Raced
21. Residential Segregation and Neighborhood Conditions in U.S. Metropolitan Areas
Seeing the Big Picture: How Integrated is Your Neighborhood?
22. The Code of the Streets
23. Environmental Justice in the 21st Century: Race Still Matters
24. Race, Religion, and the Color Line (or is that the Color Wall?)
25. Why Are There No Supermarkets in my Neighborhood: The Long Search for Fresh Fruit, Produce and Inexpensive Healthy Food
Seeing the Big Picture: Urban Food Deserts: Race, Health and the Lack of “Real” Food
Part III: Racialized Opportunity in Social Institutions
Race and Criminal Justice: Oxymoron or an American Tragedy
26. No Equal Justice: The Color of Punishment
Seeing the Big Picture: How Race Tips the Scales of Justice
27. Everyday Racism on the Police Force
28. .…and the Poor Get Prison
29. The Mark of a Criminal Record
Seeing the Big Picture: The Link Between Race, Education, Employment and Crime
How Race Shapes the Workplace
30. Kristin v. Aisha; Brad v. Rasheed: What’s in a Name and How it Effects Getting a Job
31. When the Pot Boils Over; The Irish, Jews, Blacks and Koreans of New York
Seeing the Big Picture: Whose Got the “Good” Jobs and Why.
32. “There’s No Shame in My Game”: Status and Stigma Among Harlem’s Working Poor
33. Sweatshops in Sunset Park: A Variation of Late Twentieth-Century Chinese Garment Shops in New York City
34. Hispanics in the American South and the Transformation of the Poultry Industry
Seeing the Big Picture: How Do Segregated Newsrooms Create Biased News?
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
Seeing the Big Picture: How the Media Shapes Race Relations.
36. Television and the Politics of Representation
37. Distorted Reality: Hispanic Characters in TV Entertainment
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
Seeing the Big Picture: The Tomahawk Chop: Racism in Image and Action
39. Sport in America: The New Racial Stereotypes
Seeing the Big Picture: Television’s Interracial Images: Some Fact, Mostly Fiction
Part IV: How America’s Complexion Changes
Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration
40. The Melting Pot and the Color Line
Seeing the Big Picture: Who is Allowed to “Melt” in the Pot? Who Wants to?
41. Who are the Other African Americans? Contemporary African and Caribbean Immigrants in the United States
42. The Arab Immigrant Experience
43. Ethnic and Racial Identities of Second-Generation Black Immigrants in New York City
Seeing the Big Picture: Is a Non-ethnic Racial Identity Possible?
Race and Romance: Blurring Boundaries
44. Guess Who’s Been Coming to Dinner? Trends in Interracial Marriage over the 20th Century
45. Captain Kirk Kisses Lieutenant Uhura: Interracial Intimacies From Hollywood
Seeing the Big Picture: Love May be Blind, But It’s Not Colorblind
46. Discovering Racial Borders
47. Redrawing the Color-Line? : The Problems and Possibilities of Multiracial Families and Group Making
Seeing the Big Picture: Interracial Marriage and the Blurring of the Color Line
Living With Less Racism: Strategies for Individual Action
48. Closing the Racial Inequality Gap: A Plan For Action
49. Ten Things You Can Do To Improve Race Relations
Appendix
Race by the Numbers—America’s Racial Report Card
