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Experiencing Race, Class, and Gender in the United States

Seventh Edition

Roberta Fiske-Rusciano

Through individual stories, essays, poetry, and critical analyses, Experiencing Race, Class, and Gender in the United States, Seventh Edition, introduces issues of race, class, and gender within an interdisciplinary framework. Themes of identity, power, and change are examined from many different perspectives and voices. In addition to its focus on minorities victimized by discrimination, this anthology includes the experiences of the privileged and of those who resist change, and reinforces students’ understanding that they can effect changes in their lives and in society.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Pages: 294 • Trim: 8¼ x 10

978-1-5381-1493-3 • Paperback • October 2020 • $84.00 • (£65.00)

Subjects: Social Science / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural, Social Science / Sociology / General, Social Science / Women's Studies

Courses: Sociology; Race/Class/Gender; Race, Class, Gender & Sexuality, Sociology; Race/Class/Gender; Social Stratification, Anthropology; Cultural & Social; General

Experiencing Race, Class, and Gender in the United States

Seventh Edition

Paperback

Summary

Through individual stories, essays, poetry, and critical analyses, Experiencing Race, Class, and Gender in the United States, Seventh Edition, introduces issues of race, class, and gender within an interdisciplinary framework. Themes of identity, power, and change are examined from many different perspectives and voices. In addition to its focus on minorities victimized by discrimination, this anthology includes the experiences of the privileged and of those who resist change, and reinforces students’ understanding that they can effect changes in their lives and in society.

Details

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Pages: 294 • Trim: 8¼ x 10

978-1-5381-1493-3 • Paperback • October 2020 • $84.00 • (£65.00)

Subjects: Social Science / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural, Social Science / Sociology / General, Social Science / Women's Studies

Courses: Sociology; Race/Class/Gender; Race, Class, Gender & Sexuality, Sociology; Race/Class/Gender; Social Stratification, Anthropology; Cultural & Social; General

Author

Roberta Fiske-Rusciano is adjunct assistant professor of political science, global studies, multicultural studies, and gender studies at Rider University.

Table of Contents

Preface
IDENTITY
Part I Racial and Ethnic Identity
1. Just ’Cause I’m Mixed by Afro DZ ak (Peter Shungu)
2. American Anthropological Association “Statement on Race”
3. Ethnicity in American Life: The Historical Perspective by John Hope Franklin
4. Toward a More Perfect Union by Barack Obama
5. The Loudest Voice by Grace Paley
6. To Be Hopi or American by Polingaysi Qoyawayma (Elizabeth Q. White)
7. People of Color Who Never Felt They Were Black by Darryl Fears
8. Rosa Wakefield by John Langston Gwaltney
*9. I’m Not Your Miss Saigon by Jillian Montilla
10. Before the Great Gorge by Carlos Cumpia´n
11. Race in a Genetic World by Harvard Magazine
*12. Exploring the Cuban Conundrum: Exiles, Immigrants, Americans, or Illegals? by Mercedes R. Diaz, PhD
Suggestions for Responding to Part I
Part II Gender and Sexual Identity
*13. Adam Rippon: When I Came Out Is When I Started to Own Who I Am as a Person
by Karen Price
*14. Why Are White Men Stockpiling Guns? by Jeremy Adam Smith
15. The Male Role Stereotype by Doug Cooper Thompson
16. Transgender Rights in the United States: A Short History by Tom Head
17. A Transsexual’s Story by Jessica R. Stearns
Suggestions for Responding to Part II
Part III Economics and the American Dream
18. Decloaking Class: Why Class Identity and Consciousness Count by Janet Zandy
19. The Truth about Growing Up Rich by Sallie Bingham
20. Daddy Tucked the Blanket by Randall Williams
*21. Homeless in America by Sabena Siddiqui
Suggestions for Responding to Part III
Suggestion for Responding to Identity
POWER
Part IV Power and Racism
*22. Why Birth of a Nation Still Matters in American Politics by Frank Louis Rusciano
*23. ICE Spokesman Quits, Bashes Trump Administration on Immigration Raids by Willa Frej
24. Historical Discrimination in the Immigration Laws by U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
25. Immigration Laws since 1980: The Closing Door by Barbara Franz
*26. The Year in Hate: Trump Buoyed White Supremacists in 2017, Sparking Backlash among Black Nationalist Groups by Southern Poverty Law Center
*27. What Is White Privilege, Really? by Cory Collins
28. Native Americans vs. the U.S. Government by Michael Dorris
29. Urban Native Americans by Roberta Fiske-Rusciano
30. Sex, Class, and Race Intersections: Visions of Women of Color by Carol Lee Sanchez
31. Crimes against Humanity by Ward Churchill
32. Anti-Semitism in the United States by Robert Cherry
33. Behind Barbed Wire by John Hersey
34. Asian Americans Battle “Model Minority” Stereotype by Robert Daseler
35. Jim Crow Revived in Cyberspace by Greg Palast and Martin Luther King III
*36. It’s Not Just Starbucks: White Fear Is an American Problem by Rene´e Graham
37. Emmett Louis Till, 1941–1955 by Southern Poverty Law Center
38. Blacks Feel Indignities by Robert Anthony Watts
Suggestions for Responding to Part IV
Part V Power and Sexism
39. Citizenship and Violence by The American Prospect
*40. For Women’s History Month, a Look at Gender Gains—and Gender Gaps—in the
United States by Abigail Geiger and Kim Parker
*41. Sexual Harassment at Work in the Era of #MeToo by Nikki Graf
*42. Breaking Down Gender Bias in the Construction Industry by Kate Stephenson
43. Why Doesn’t She Just Leave? by Clarethia Ellerbe
44. Rape and Sexual Assault by James A. Doyle
45. “The Rape” of Mr. Smith by Unknown
*46. Roe v. Wade Turns Forty-Five, but There’s No Time to Celebrate by Ilyse Hogue
*47. Unions Are Fighting for Families by Liz Shuler
Suggestions for Responding to Part V
Part VI Power and Classism
48. Warren Buffett Calls for Higher Taxes for U.S. Super-Rich by Graeme Wearden
49. Bulging Jails Are Other American Exception by Albert R. Hunt
50. Institutionalized Discrimination by Robert Cherry
*51. Why People Love “Assistance to the Poor” but Hate “Welfare” by Ashley Jardina
*52. The Tainted Water Crisis in Upstate New York That Andrew Cuomo Can’t Shake by Alexander C. Kaufman
Suggestions for Responding to Part VI
Part VII Race, Class, and Gender during the Obama and Trump Administrations: A Comparative Look
*53. How America Changed during Barack Obama’s Presidency by Michael Dimock
*54. The Atlantic’s Adam Serwer: The Politics of Racism in Trump’s America by Nilagia McCoy
*55. The Trump Administration Isn’t Just Curtailing Women’s Rights; It’s Systematically Eroding Trust in Women by Annalisa Merelli
*56. Environmental Justice in the Age of Trump by Michael J. Brogan
*57. The Power to Count: Citizenship and the Census by Victor Thompson
Suggestions for Responding to Part VII
Suggestions for Responding to Power
CHANGE
Part VIII Taking Action
58. Attorney General Eric Holder Speaks at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum by Eric Holder
59. Diversity and Its Discontents by Arturo Madrid
60. Breakfast at Perkins by Derek Schork
*61. Five Ways to Help Prevent Domestic Violence by Richard Tolman
62. Going Public with Our Vision by Charlotte Bunch
63. A Manifesto for Men by Andrew Kimbrell
64. Freedom for the Thought We Hate by Gerald Gunther
*65. The Oklahoma Teachers’ Strike Is Twenty-Six Years in the Making by Jon Hazell 240
Suggestions for Responding to Part VIII
Part IX Change Makers
66. Victory at Arnot by Mary Harris “Mother” Jones
67. Free at Last by Southern Poverty Law Center
68. The Movement by Anne Moody
69. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle by Muriel Tillinghast
70. “Don’t Tell Us It Can’t Be Done” by Michael Ryan
71. Cecilia Fire Thunder: She Inspires Her People by Ann Davis
72. Claiming Respect for Ancestral Remains: Repatriation and the Caddo Nation of
Oklahoma by Robert L. Cast, Bobby Gonzalez, and Timothy K. Perttula
*73. The Weinstein Effect by Linda Burstyn
Suggestions for Responding to Part IX
Suggestions for Responding to Change
Credits
Index
*New to this edition

Features

New to the seventh edition: The seventh edition has twenty-five new readings. As with the previous edition, the text remains a combination of social science and the humanities, drawing on the strengths of a multidisciplinary approach that ideally will add to the flexibility of the collection’s use and provide broader exposure to knowledge as we grapple with these most basic questions in our society. Other new readings focus upon divisions in our understanding of U.S. history and the consequences.

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