Race, class, and gender in the United States: an integrated study

pt. I. The Social Construction of Difference: Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality. 1. Racial Formations / Michael Omi and Howard Winant. 2. The Ethics of Living Jim Crow: An Autobiographical Sketch / Richard Wright. 3. Rethinking Women's Biology / Ruth Hubbard. 4. The Social Construction of Gender / Judith Lorber. 5. Ah, Ya Throw Like a Girl! / Mike Messner. 6. In a Male-Centered World, Female Differences Are Transformed into Female Disadvantages / Sandra Lipsitz Bem. 7. The Social Construction of Sexuality / Ruth Hubbard. 8. The Invention of Heterosexuality / Jonathan Ned Katz. 9. Deconstructing the Underclass / Herbert Gans. 10. Domination and Subordination / Jean Baker Miller

pt. II. "Us" and "Them": Becoming an American. 1. Who Is an American? / Eric Foner. 2. "Is This a White Country, or What?" / Lillian Rubin. 3. How Jews Became White / Karen Brodkin Sacks. 4. Asian-American History Rises above Pitfalls for Trail of Success: Ups, Downs Compared to Plight of Blacks / Jonathan Tilove. 5. Baiting Immigrants: Heartbreak for Latinos / Mercedes Lynn De Uriarte. 6. The Border Patrol State / Leslie Marmon Silko. 7. Five Myths about Immigration / David Cole

pt. III. Understanding Racism, Sexism, and Class Privilege. 1. The Problem: Discrimination / U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. 2. Oppression / Marilyn Frye. 3. Racism: Something about the Subject Makes It Hard to Name / Gloria Yamato. 4. Smells Like Racism / Rita Chaudhry Sethi. 5. White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack / Peggy McIntosh. 6. Racial Relations Becoming More Complex across Country / Jonathan Tilove. 7. Death of a Teenager Widens a Racial Rift between Two Towns / Alex Kotlowitz. 8. Gang Rape / David Gonzalez and Garry Pierre-Pierre

pt. IV. The Economics of Race, Class, and Gender in the United States. 1. Imagine a Country / Holly Sklar. 2. Class in America: Myths and Realities / Gregory Mantsios. 3. Who Killed the Middle Class? / John Cassidy. 4. Family Struggles to Make Do after Fall from Middle Class / Dirk Johnson. 5. Middle-Class Blacks Try to Grip a Ladder While Lending a Hand / Isabel Wilkerson. 6. Persistent Racial Segregation Mars Suburbs' Green Dream / Diana Jean Schemo. 7. The Wage Gap: Myths and Facts / National Committee on Pay Equity. 8. How Workplaces May Look without Affirmative Action / Jonathan Kaufman. 9. Women Face Glass Walls as Well as Ceilings / Julie Amparano Lopez. 10. Welfare: Exploding the Stereotypes / Rita Henley Jensen. 11. What Scholars Can Tell Politicians about the Poor / Katherine S. Newman

pt. V. Many Voices, Many Lives: Some Consequences of Racial, Gender, and Class Inequality. 1. Racial and Ethnic Minorities: An Overview / Beth B. Hess, Elizabeth W. Markson and Peter J. Stein. 2. On Being South Asian in North America / Chandra Talpade Mohanty. 3. Then Came the War / Yuri Kochiyama. 4. An Ethnic Trump / Gish Jen. 5. TV Arabs / Jack G. Shaheen. 6. The Circuit / Francisco Jimenez. 7. The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria / Judith Ortiz Cofer. 8. Aria: A Bilingual Childhood / Richard Rodriguez. 9. Arturo / Maria Mazziotti Gillan. 10. Suicide Note / Janice Mirikitani. 11. Pursuit of Happiness / Dympna Ugwa-Oju. 12. Black Hispanics: The Ties That Bind / Vivian Brady. 13. Blacks and Hispanics: A Fragile Alliance / Jacqueline Conciatore and Roberto Rodriguez. 14. What I Learned about Jews / Joe Wood. 15. Pigskin, Patriarchy, and Pain / Don Sabo. 16. He Defies You Still: The Memoirs of a Sissy / Tommi Avicolli. 17. With No Immediate Cause / Ntozake Shange. 18. When Street Harassment Gets Nasty / Teresa Yunker. 19. The Triangular Tube of Pink Lipstick / Gail Watnick. 20. "We Are Who You Are": Feminism and Disability / Bonnie Sherr Klein. 21. The Case of Sharon Kowalski and Karen Thompson: Ableism, Heterosexism, and Sexism / Joan L. Griscom. 22. Requiem for the Champ / June Jordan. 23. C.P. Ellis / Studs Terkel

pt. VI. How it Happened: Race and Gender Issues in U.S. Law. 1. Indian Tribes: A Continuing Quest for Survival / U.S. Commission on Human Rights. 2. An Act for the Better Ordering and Governing of Negroes and Slaves, South Carolina, 1712. 3. The "Three-Fifths Compromise": The U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 2. 4. An Act Prohibiting the Teaching of Slaves to Read. 5. Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, Seneca Falls Convention, 1848. 6. The Antisuffragists: Selected Papers, 1852-1887. 7. People v. Hall, 1854. 8. Dred Scott v. Sandford, 1856. 9. The Emancipation Proclamation / Abraham Lincoln. 10. United States Constitution: Thirteenth (1865), Fourteenth (1868), and Fifteenth (1870) Amendments. 11. The Black Codes / W.E.B. Du Bois. 12. Bradwell v. Illinois, 1873. 13. Minor v. Happersett, 1874. 14. California Constitution, 1876. 15. Elk v. Wilkins, 1884. 16. Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896. 17. United States Constitution: Nineteenth Amendment (1920). 18. Korematsu v. United States, 1944. 19. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 1954. 20. Roe v. Wade, 1973. 21. The Equal Rights Amendment (Defeated). 22. Bowers v. Hardwick, 1986. 23. Confronting Obstacles to Lesbian and Gay Equality / Paula L. Ettelbrick

pt. VII. Creating and Maintaining Hierarchies: Stereotypes, Ideology, Language, Violence, and Social Control. 1. Self-Fulfilling Stereotypes / Mark Snyder. 2. Anti-Gay Stereotypes / Richard D. Mohr. 3. Racism in the English Language / Robert B. Moore. 4. Sex and Race: The Analogy of Social Control / William Chafe. 5. Am I Thin Enough Yet? / Sharlene Hesse-Biber. 6. Pulling Train / Peggy R. Sanday. 7. Failing at Faimess: How America's Schools Cheat Girls / Myra Sadker and David Sadker. 8. Tracking / Mary Kennedy Carter. 9. Media Magic: Making Class Invisible / Gregory Mantsios. 10. Blaming the Victim / William Ryan

pt. VIII. Revisioning the Future. 1. Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference / Audre Lorde. 2. En rapport, In Opposition: Cobrando cuentas a las nuestras / Gloria Anzaldua. 3. Up Against the Wall / Cherrie Moraga. 4. Toward a More Caring Society / Ruth Sidel. 5. A New Vision of Masculinity / Cooper Thompson. 6. Homophobia as a Weapon of Sexism / Suzanne Pharr. 7. Narrowing the Income Gap between Rich and Poor / Michael Hout and Samuel R. Lucas. 8. Feminism: A Transformational Politic / bell hooks. 9. Still I Rise / Maya Angelou. 10. The woman in the ordinary / Marge Piercy.

The social construction of difference: race, class, gender, and sexuality

Understanding racism, sexism, heterosexism, and class privilege

Beyond black and white: complicating questions of race and ethnicity

Discrimination in everyday life

The economics of race, class, and gender in the United States

Many voices, many lives: some consequences of race, class, and gender inequality

How it happened: race and gender issues in U.S. law

Maintaining race, class, and gender hierarchies: reproducing "reality"

Social change: revisioning the future and making a difference.

Defing "racism" and "sexism"

Bias incidents and harassment: some examples

The economics of race, gender, and class in the United States

Many voices, many lives

How it happened: race and gender issues in U.S. law

Creating and maintaining hierarchy: stereotypes, ideology, language, and social control

Revisioning the future.