Authors: Charles A. Gallagher
ISBN-13: 9780073404271, ISBN-10: 0073404276
Format: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Date Published: December 2008
Edition: 4th Edition
Book Synopsis
Rethinking the Color Line is a user-friendly text that does not sacrifice 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, and encourage active learning in the classroom all while providing relevance for students from all ethnic, racial, cultural, and economic backgrounds. The new fourth edition features 8 new readings as well as a new two-color design that brings attention to the "Seeing the Big Picture" and "Questions to Consider" boxes found throughout the text.
Booknews
A collection for an undergraduate course, providing a theoretical framework and analytical tools and discussing the meaning of race and ethnicity as a social construction. The readings are designed to require students to negotiate between individual agency and the constraints of social structure, and to think of race and ethnicity in fluid rather than static terms. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Table of Contents
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 ColorMarvin Harris2. Drawing the Color LineHoward Zinn3. Racial FormationsMichael Omi and Howard Winant4. Theoretical Perspectives in Race and Ethnic RelationsJoe R. Feagin and Clairece Booher Feagin5. Racialized Social Systems: Understanding RacismEduardo BonillaSeeing the Big Picture: The Social Construction of Race 1790-2000…Contemporary Socioeconomic Trends6. An Overview of Trends in Social and Economic Well-Being, by RaceRebecca M. Blank Seeing the Big Picture: The Role of Race in Social Mobility7. The Color of Health in the United StatesDavid R. Williams and Chiquita Collins Seeing the Big Picture: How Race Can Be Hazardous to Your Health 8. Transformative Assets, The Racial Wealth Gap and the American Dream Tom ShapiroSeeing the Big Picture: The Color of MoneyRace as Chameleon: How the Idea of Race Changes Over Time and Place9. Defining Race: Comparative PerspectivesF. James DavisSeeing the Big Picture: What was YOUR race in 1890?10. A Tour of Indian People and Indian LandsDavid E. WilkinsSeeing the Big Picture: From Riches to the “Res” (Reservation System)11. Asian American Panethnicity: Contemporary National and Transnational PossibilitiesYen Le EspirituSeeing the Big Picture: Panethnic Riches, Panethnic Poverty12. Beyond Black and White: Remaking Race in AmericaJennifer Lee and Frank BeanSeeing 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 AmericaCharles A. Gallagher 14. The Ideology of ColorblindnessLani Guinier and Gerald Torres 15. The Possibility of a New Racial Hierarchy in the Twenty-First-Century United States Herbert GansSeeing the Big Picture: Colorblind or Blind to Color?
Part II
Prejudice, Discrimination, and RacismUnderstanding Racism16. Race Prejudice as a Sense of Group PositionHerbert BlumerSeeing the Big Picture: Racism: Group Position or Individual Belief?17. Discrimination and the American CreedRobert Merton18. Race and Civil Rights Pre-September 11, 2001: The Targeting of Arabs and Muslims Susan M. Akram and Kevin R. JohnsonSeeing the Big Picture: America’s New Public Enemy?19. The Possessive Investment in WhitenessGeorge Lipsitz Seeing the Big Picture: Race As an Investment 20. Laissez-Fair Racism, Racial Inequality and the Role of the Social Sciences Lawrence D. BoboHow Space Gets Raced21. Residential Segregation and Neighborhood Conditions in U.S. Metropolitan AreasDouglas S. Massey Seeing the Big Picture: How Integrated is Your Neighborhood?22. The Code of the StreetsElijah Anderson23. Environmental Justice in the 21st Century: Race Still MattersRobert D. Bullard24. Race, Religion, and the Color Line (or is that the Color Wall?)Michael Emerson25. Why Are There No Supermarkets in my Neighborhood: The Long Search for Fresh Fruit, Produce and Inexpensive Healthy FoodShannon Zenk (et.al) Seeing the Big Picture: Urban Food Deserts: Race, Health and the Lack of “Real” Food
Part III
Racialized Opportunity in Social InstitutionsRace and Criminal Justice: Oxymoron or an American Tragedy26. No Equal Justice: The Color of PunishmentDavid Cole Seeing the Big Picture: How Race Tips the Scales of Justice27. Everyday Racism on the Police ForceKenneth Bolton Jr. and Joe R. Feagin28. .…and the Poor Get PrisonJeffrey Reiman29. The Mark of a Criminal RecordDevah PagerSeeing 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 JobAmy Braverman31. When the Pot Boils Over; The Irish, Jews, Blacks and Koreans of New YorkRoger WaldingerSeeing 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 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 Bao34. Hispanics in the American South and the Transformation of the Poultry IndustryWilliam Kandel and Emilio A. Parrado Seeing 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 ReportingRoger D. Klein and Stacy Naccarato Seeing the Big Picture: How the Media Shapes Race Relations.36. Television and the Politics of RepresentationJustin Lewis and Sut Jhally 37. Distorted Reality: Hispanic Characters in TV EntertainmentS. Robert Lichter and Daniel R. Amundson Crazy Horse Malt Liquor and Athletes: The Tenacity of Stereotypes38. Winnebagos, Cherokees, Apaches and Dakotas: The Persistence of Stereotyping of American Indians in American AdvertisingDebra Merskin Seeing the Big Picture: The Tomahawk Chop: Racism in Image and Action39. Sport in America: The New Racial StereotypesRichard E. LapchickSeeing the Big Picture: Television’s Interracial Images: Some Fact, Mostly Fiction
Part IV
How America’s Complexion ChangesRace, Ethnicity, and Immigration40. The Melting Pot and the Color LineSteven Steinberg 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 StatesJohn R. Logan42. The Arab Immigrant ExperienceMichael W. Suleiman 43. Ethnic and Racial Identities of Second-Generation Black Immigrants in New York CityMary C. WatersSeeing 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 CenturyRoland G. Fryer Jr. 45. Captain Kirk Kisses Lieutenant Uhura: Interracial Intimacies From HollywoodRandall KennedySeeing the Big Picture: Love May be Blind, But It’s Not Colorblind46. Discovering Racial BordersHeather Dalmage 47. Redrawing the Color-Line? : The Problems and Possibilities of Multiracial Families and Group MakingKimberly McClain DaCostaSeeing 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 ActionMeizhu Lui, Barbara J. Robles, Betsy Leondar-Wright, Rose M. Brewer, and Rebecca Adamson49. Ten Things You Can Do To Improve Race RelationsCharles A. Gallagher
Appendix:
Race by the Numbers—America’s Racial Report Card
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