This anthology of current research and writings examines contemporary issues and explores new approaches to the study of race and ethnic relations.
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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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