Rethinking the Color Line: Readings in Race and Ethnicity

5. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-07-802663-8
Verlag: McGraw-Hill Education

Buch, Englisch, 496 Seiten, Format (B × H): 180 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 718 g

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gallagher, Charles A.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of ContentsAbout the AuthorPrefaceIntroduction: Rethinking the Color Line: Understanding How Boundaries ShiftPart I: Sorting By Color: Why We Attach Meaning To RaceRace and Ethnicity: Sociohistoric Constructions and …1. How Our Skins Got Their Color2. Drawing the Color Line3. Racial Formations4. Theoretical Perspectives in Race and Ethnic Relations5. Racialized Social Systems: Understanding RacismSeeing the Big Picture: The Social Construction of Race 1790-2000…Contemporary Socioeconomic Trends6. An Overview of Trends in Social and Economic Well-Being, by RaceSeeing the Big Picture: The Role of Race in Social Mobility7. The Color of Health in the United StatesSeeing 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 MoneyRace as Chameleon: How the Idea of Race Changes Over Time and Place9. Defining Race: Comparative PerspectivesSeeing the Big Picture: What was YOUR race in 1890?10. A Tour of Indian People and Indian LandsSeeing the Big Picture: From Riches to the “Res” (Reservation System)11. Asian American Panethnicity: Contemporary National and Transnational PossibilitiesSeeing the Big Picture: Panethnic Riches, Panethnic Poverty12. Beyond Black and White: Remaking Race in AmericaSeeing the Big Picture: Check All That Apply (Finally!): The Institutionalization of Mixed Race IdentityColorblind America: Fact, Fantasy or Our Future? 13. Color Blind Privilege: The Social and Political Functions of Erasing the Color Line in Post Race America14. The Ideology of Colorblindness15. The Possibility of a New Racial Hierarchy in the Twenty-First-Century United StatesSeeing the Big Picture: Colorblind or Blind to Color?Part II: Prejudice, Discrimination, and RacismUnderstanding Racism16. Race Prejudice as a Sense of Group PositionSeeing the Big Picture: Racism: Group Position or Individual Belief?17. Discrimination and the American Creed18. 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 Raced21. 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 Matters24. 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 FoodSeeing the Big Picture: Urban Food Deserts: Race, Health and the Lack of “Real” FoodPart III: Racialized Opportunity in Social InstitutionsRace and Criminal Justice: Oxymoron or an American Tragedy26. No Equal Justice: The Color of Punishment Seeing the Big Picture: How Race Tips the Scales of Justice27. 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 CrimeHow Race Shapes the Workplace30. 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 IndustrySeeing the Big Picture: How Do Segregated Newsrooms Create Biased News?Race, Representations and the MediaDrug Dealers, Maids and Mammies: The Role of Stereotypes in the Media35. Broadcast News Portrayal of Minorities: Accuracy in ReportingSeeing the Big Picture: How the Media Shapes Race Relations.36. Television and the Politics of Representation37. Distorted Reality: Hispanic Characters in TV EntertainmentCrazy Horse Malt Liquor and Athletes: The Tenacity of Stereotypes38. Winnebagos, Cherokees, Apaches and Dakotas: The Persistence of Stereotyping of American Indians in American AdvertisingSeeing the Big Picture: The Tomahawk Chop: Racism in Image and Action39. Sport in America: The New Racial StereotypesSeeing the Big Picture: Television’s Interracial Images: Some Fact, Mostly FictionPart IV: How America’s Complexion ChangesRace, Ethnicity, and Immigration40. The Melting Pot and the Color LineSeeing 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 States42. The Arab Immigrant Experience43. Ethnic and Racial Identities of Second-Generation Black Immigrants in New York CitySeeing 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 Century45. Captain Kirk Kisses Lieutenant Uhura: Interracial Intimacies From HollywoodSeeing the Big Picture: Love May be Blind, But It’s Not Colorblind46. Discovering Racial Borders47. Redrawing the Color-Line?: The Problems and Possibilities of Multiracial Families and Group MakingSeeing the Big Picture: Interracial Marriage and the Blurring of the Color LineLiving With Less Racism: Strategies for Individual Action48. Closing the Racial Inequality Gap: A Plan For Action49. Ten Things You Can Do To Improve Race RelationsAppendixRace by the Numbers—America’s Racial Report Card