Race, Class, and Gender: Intersections and Inequalities
By Margaret L. Andersen, Patricia Hill Collins
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Featuring an accessible and diverse collection of more than 50 writings by a variety of scholars, this anthology demonstrates how the complex intersection of people's race, class, gender and sexuality shapes their experiences. Co-edited by two leading authorities, RACE, CLASS, AND GENDER is a classic work that has helped define the field of intersectionality studies. Updated to reflect the most current research and recent societal events, the readings in the 10th edition are especially timely, covering immigration and refugees, myths about immigrant crime, growing inequality, the role of social media in social movement mobilization, health care inequality, and more--equipping readers with a multidimensional perspective on today's social issues. Andersen and Hill Collins begin each section with in-depth introductions to provide an analytical framework for understanding social inequality.
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Featuring an accessible and diverse collection of more than 50 writings by a variety of scholars, this anthology demonstrates how the complex intersection of people's race, class, gender and sexuality shapes their experiences. Co-edited by two leading authorities, RACE, CLASS, AND GENDER is a classic work that has helped define the field of intersectionality studies. Updated to reflect the most current research and recent societal events, the readings in the 10th edition are especially timely, covering immigration and refugees, myths about immigrant crime, growing inequality, the role of social media in social movement mobilization, health care inequality, and more--equipping readers with a multidimensional perspective on today's social issues. Andersen and Hill Collins begin each section with in-depth introductions to provide an analytical framework for understanding social inequality.
Introductory essays to each section provide an analytical foundation to ensure students gain a thorough understanding of the significance of intersectional analyses.
Extremely student friendly, articles throughout the text are highly accessible to undergraduate readers.
The text uses reflective, personal accounts of the effects of race, class and gender on society to help students develop an intersectional perspective. Its unique collection of readings successfully combines analytical articles that are both conceptually and theoretically informed with a high degree of accessibility that engages students in critical thinking and reflective analysis.
Introductory essays by the two editors--both leading authorities on intersectionality studies--provide a solid foundation for thinking about intersectionality and connect the significance of the individual articles. This anthology offers students a framework for thinking about race, class, gender and sexuality as intersecting systems of social stratification.
Table of contents
- PREFACE.
- ABOUT THE EDITORS.
- ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS.
- PART I: WHY RACE, CLASS, AND GENDER STILL MATTER.
- Introduction by Margaret L. Andersen and Patricia Hill Collins.
- 1. "Age, Race, Class and Sex: Women Redefining Difference" by Audre Lorde.
- 2. "From a Native Daughter" by Haunani Kay-Trask.
- 3. "Label Us Angry" by Jeremiah Torres.
- 4 "It Looks Like a Demon": Black Masculinity and Spirituality in the Age of Ferguson by Jamie D. Hawley and Staycie L. Flint.
- PART II: SYSTEMS OF POWER AND INEQUALITY.
- Introduction by Margaret L. Andersen and Patricia Hill Collins.
- A. RACE.
- 5. "The Persistence of White nationalism in America" by Joe Feagin.
- 6. "Racial Formation" by Michael Omi and Howard Winant.
- 7. "Color-Blind Privilege: The Social and Political Functions of Erasing the Color Line in Post Race America" by Charles A. Gallagher.
- 8. "White Privilege" by Peggy McIntosh.
- B. ETHNICITY.
- 9. "What White Supremacists Taught a Jewish Scholar about Identity" by Abby Ferber.
- 10. "Must-See TV: South Asian Characterizations in American Popular Media" by Bhoomi K. Thakore.
- 11. "We are all Americans: the Latin Americanization of race relations in the United States" by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva and Karen S. Glover.
- 12. "Optional Ethnicities: For Whites Only?" by Mary C. Waters.
- C. CLASS, CAPITALISM, AND INEQUALITY.
- 13. "Is Capitalism Gendered and Racialized?" by Joan Acke.
- 14. "Race as Class" by Herbert J. Gans.
- 15. "Media Magic: Making Class Invisible" by Gregory Mantsios.
- 16. "Toxic Inequality" by Thomas M. Shapiro.
- D. GENDER.
- 17. "Asian American Women and Racialized Femininities: “Doing Gender” across Cultural Worlds" by Karen D. Pyke and Denise L. Johnson.
- 18. "From Transgender to Trans" by Joelle Ruby Ryan.
- 19. "More than Men: Latino Feminist Masculinities and Intersectionality" by Aida Hurtado and Mrinal Sinha.
- 20. "Keep Your "N" in Check: African American Women and the Interactive Effects of Etiquette and Emotional Labor" by Marlese Durr and Adia M. Harvey Wingfield.
- E. SEXUALITY.
- 21. "Prisons for Our Bodies, Closets for Our Minds: Racism, Heterosexism, and Black Sexuality" by Patricia Hill Collins.
- 22. "The Invention of Heterosexuality" by Jonathan Ned Katz.
- 23. "Good Girls": Gender, Social Class, and Slut Discourse on Campus" by Elizabeth A, Armstrong, Laura T. Hamilton, Elizabeth M. Armstrong, and J. Lotus Seele.
- 24. "Queering the Sexual and Racial Politics of Urban Revitalization" by Donovan Lessard.
- PART III: SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND SOCIAL ISSUES.
- Introduction by Margaret L. Andersen and Patricia Hill Collins
- A. JOBS, WORK, and THE LABOR MARKET.
- 25. "Jobless Ghettos: The Social Implications of the Disappearance of Work in Segregated Neighborhoods" by William J. Wilson.
- 26. "Working Class Growing Pains" by Jennifer M. Silva.
- 27. "Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal?: A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination" by Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan.
- 28. "Gender Matters: So Do Race and Class: Experiences of Gendered Racism on the Wal-Mart Shop Floor" by Sandra E. Weissinger.
- B. FAMILIES AND RELATIONSHIPS.
- 29. "Our Mothers' Grief: Racial-Ethnic Women and the Maintenance of Families" by Bonnie Thornton Dill.
- 30. "LGBT Sexuality and Families at the Start of the Twenty-First Century" by Mignon R. Moore and Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfhe.
- 31. "The Good Daughter Dilemma: Latinas Managing Family and School Demands" by Roberta Espinoza.
- 32. "Loving across Racial Divides" by Amy Steinbugler.
- C. EDUCATION AND HEALTH.
- 33. "From the Achievement Gap to the Education Debt: Understanding Achievement in U.S. Schools" by Gloria Ladson-Billings.
- 34. "Academic Resilience among Undocumented Latino Students" by William Perez, Roberta Espinoza, Karina Ramos, Heidi M. Coronado, and Richard Cortes.
- 35. "Michael’s Story: "I Get Into So Much Trouble Just by Walking:" Narrative Knowing and Life at the Intersections of Learning Disability, Race and Class" by David J. Connor.
- 36. "Health Inequities, Social Determinants, and Intersectionality" by Nancy L�pez and Vivian L. Gadsden.
- D. CITIZENSHIP AND NATIONAL IDENTITY.
- 37. "The First Americans: American Indians" by C. Matthew Snipp.
- 38. "Is This a White Country, or What?"" by Lillian B. Rubin.
- 39. "Are Asian Americans Becoming "White"?" by Min Zhou.
- 40. "Feeling Like a Citizen, Living as a Denizen: Deportees Sense of Belonging" by Tonya Golash-Boza.
- E. VIOLENCE AND CRIMINALIZATION
- 41. "Policed, Punished, Dehumanized: The Reality for Young Men of Color Living in America" by Victor M. Rios.
- 42. "The Myth of Immigrant Criminality and the Paradox of Assimilation" by Rub�n G. Rumbaut and Walter Ewing.
- 43. "Refugees, Race, and Gender: The Multiple Discrimination against Refugee Women" by Eileen Pittaway and Linda Bartolomei.
- 44. "The Intersectional Paradigm and Alternative Visions to Stopping Domestic Violence: What Poor Women, Women of Color, and Immigrant Women Are Teaching Us about Violence in the Family" by Natalie J. Sokoloff.
- PART IV: INTERSECTIONALITY AND SOCIAL CHANGE.
- Introduction by Margaret L. Andersen and Patricia Hill Collins.
- A. MEDIA AND POPULAR CULTURE.
- 45. "Race, Gender, and Virtual Inequality: Exploring the Liberatory Potential of Black Cyberfeminist Theory" by Kishonna L. Gray.
- 46. "Talking Back to Controlling Images: Latinos’ Changing Responses to Racism over the Life Course" by Jessica Vasquez-Tokos and Kathyrn Norton-Smith.
- 47. ""This is for the Brown Kids!" Racialization and the Formation of "Muslim" Punk Rock" by Amy D. McDowell.
- 48. "Frozen in Time: The Impact of Native American Media Representations" by Peter A. Leavitt, Rebecca Covarrubius, Yvonne A. Perez, and Stephanie A. Fryberg.
- B. SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND ACTIVISM.
- 49. "Immigrant Rights are Civil Rights" by Hana Brown and Jennifer A. Jones.
- 50. "Intersectional Mobilization, Social Movement Spillover, and Queer Youth Leadership in the Immigrant Rights Movement" by Veronica Terr�quez.
- 51. "Movement Intersectionality: The Case of Race, Gender, Disability, and Genetic Technologies" by Dorothy Roberts and Sujatha Jesudason.
- 52. "Growing Food and Justice: Dismantling Racism through Sustainable Food Systems" by Alfonso Morales.
- 53. "(Re)Imagining Intersectional Democracy from Black Feminism to Hashtag Activism" by Sarah J. Jackson.
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