Rethinking the color line : readings in race and ethnicity /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Gallagher, Charles A. (Charles Andrew), 1962-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : McGraw-Hill, [2012]
Edition:5th ed.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Rethinking the color line: understanding how boundaries shift
  • pt. 1. Sorting by color: why we attach meaning to race
  • How our skins got their color / Marvin Harris
  • Drawing the color line / Howard Zinn
  • Racial formations / Michael Omi and Howard Winant
  • Defining race and ethnicity / C. Matthew Snipp
  • Racialized social system approach to racism / Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
  • Understanding racial-ethnic disparaties in health: sociological contributions / David R. Williams and Michelle Sternthal
  • Transformative assets, the racial wealth gap and the American dream / Thomas M. Shapiro
  • Defining race: comparative perspective / F. James Davis
  • A tour of Indian people and Indian lands / David E. Wilkins
  • Asian American panethnicity: contemporary national and transnational possibilities / Yen Le Espiritu
  • Beyond black and white: remaking race in America / Jennifer Lee and Frank D. Bean
  • Color blind privilege: the social and political functions of erasing the color line in post-race America / Charles A. Gallagher
  • The ideology of colorblindness / Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres
  • The possibility of a new racial hierarchy in the twenty-first-century United States / Herbert J. Gans.
  • Pt. 2. Prejudice, discrimination and racism
  • Race prejudice as a sense of group position / Herbert Blumer
  • Race and gender discrimination: contemporary trends / James Sterba
  • Discrimination and the American creed / Robert K. Merton
  • How does it feel to be a problem? Being young and Arab in America / Moustafa Bayoumi
  • The possessive investment in whiteness: racialized social democracy / George Lipsitz
  • Laissez-faire racism, racial inequality, and the role of the social sciences / Lawrence D. Bobo
  • Residential segregation and neighborhood conditions in U.S. metropolitan areas / Douglas S. Massey
  • The code of the streets / Elijah Anderson
  • Environmental justice in the 21st century: race still matters / Robert D. Bullard
  • Race, religion, and the color line (Or is that the color wall?) / Michael O. Emerson
  • Why are there no supermarkets in my neighborhood?: the long search for fresh fruit, produce and healthy food / Shannon N. Zenk (et.al).
  • Pt. 3. Racialized opportunity in social institutions
  • No equal justice: the color of punishment / David Cole
  • The new Jim Crow / Michelle Alexander
  • Racialized mass incarceration: rounding up the usual suspects / Lawrence D. Bobo and Victor Thompson
  • The mark of a criminal record / Devah Pager
  • Using DNA for justice: color-blind or biased? / Sheldon Krimsky and Tania Simoncelli
  • Kristin v. Aisha; Brad v. Rasheed: what's in a name and how it affects getting a job / Amy Braverman
  • When the melting pot boils over: the Irish, Jews, Blacks and Koreans of New York / Roger Waldinger
  • There's no shame in my game: status and stigma Among Harlem's working poor / Katherine S. Newman and Catherine Ellis
  • Sweatshops in Sunset Park: a variation of the late twentieth-century Chinese garment shops in New York City / Xiaolan Bao
  • Hispanics in the American south and the transformation of the poultry industry / William Kandel and Emilio A. Parrado
  • Racism and popular culture / Danielle Dirks and Jennifer Mueller
  • The media as a system of racialization: exploring images of African American women and the new racism / Marci Bounds Littlefield
  • Black and white in movies: portrayals of Black-white biracial characters in movies / Alicia Edison and George Yancey
  • Winnebagos, Cherokees, Apaches, and Dakotas: the persistence of stereotyping of American Indians in American advertising and brands / Debra Merskin
  • Sport in America: the new racial stereotypes / Richard E. Lapchick.
  • Pt. 4. How America's complexion changes
  • The melting pot and the color line / Stephen Steinberg
  • Who are the other African Americans? Contemporary African and Caribbean immigrants in the United States / John R. Logan
  • The Arab immigrant experience / Michael W. Suleiman
  • Ethnic and racial identities of second-generation Black immigrants in New York City / Mary C. Waters
  • Guess who's coming to dinner? Trends in interracial marriage over the 20th century / Roland G. Fryer Jr.
  • Captain Kirk kisses Lieutenant Uhura: interracial intimacies
  • the view from Hollywood / Randall L. Kennedy
  • Discovering racial borders / Heather M. Dalmage
  • Redrawing the color line? The problems and possibilities of multiracial families and group making / Kimberly McClain DaCosta
  • Policy steps toward closing the gap / Meizhu Lui [and others]
  • Ten things you can do to improve race relations / Charles A. Gallagher
  • Appendix. Race by the numbers: America's racial report card.