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Experiencing Race, Class, and Gender in the United States

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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. « less more »

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Pages: 480 • Trim: 8 x 10

978-1-5381-1493-3 • Paperback • September 2019 • $80.00 • (£52.95)

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.

Book Details

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Pages: 480 • Trim: 8 x 10

978-1-5381-1493-3 • Paperback • September 2019 • $80.00 • (£52.95)

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

Table of Contents

Preface

Identity

Part I Racial and Ethnic Identity

1. Just ‘Cause I’m Mixed by Afro DZ aka (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. ‘Racial Impostor Syndrome’: Here Are Your Stories by National Public Radio

6. Every Good-Bye Ain’t Gone by James Baldwin

7. The Loudest Voice by Grace Paley

8. To Be Hopi or American by Polingaysi Qoyawayma (Elizabeth Q. White)

9. People of Color Who Never Felt They Were Black by Darryl Fears

10. Rosa Wakeﬁeld by John Langston Gwaltney

11. I’m Not Your Miss Saigon by Jillian Montilla

12. In the Aloha State, All (Identity) Politics is Local by Eric Pape

13. American Dreamer by Bharati Mukherjee

14. On the Other Side of the War: A Story by Elizabeth Gordon

15. Medicalization of Racial Features: Asian American Women and Cosmetic Surgery by Eugenia Kaw

16. Before the Great Gorge by Carlos Cumpián

17. Race in a Genetic World by Harvard Magazine

18. Exploring the Cuban Conundrum: Exiles, Immigrants, Americans or Illegals? by Mercedes Diaz

Suggestions for Responding to Part I

Part II Gender and Sexual Identity

19. Adam Rippon: When I Came Out is When I Started to Own Who I Am As a Person by Karen Price

20. Why Are White Men Stockpiling Guns? by Jeremy Adam Smith

21. There’s a Petition Calling for the First Transgender Barbie by Huffington Post

22. Where I Come From Is Like This by Paula Gunn Allen

23. The Male Role Stereotype by Doug Cooper Thompson

24. Transgender Rights in the United States: A Short History by Tom Head

25. A Transsexual’s Story by Jessica R. Stearns

26. Two Sexes Are Not Enough by Anne Fausto-Sterling

27. Same-Sex-Marriage Flashpoint: Alabama Considers Quitting the Marriage Business by Debbie Elliott

28. When the Political Is Personal by Ann Marie Nicolosi

Suggestions for Responding to Part II

Part III Economics and the American Dream

29. Decloaking Class: Why Class Identity and Consciousness Count by Janet Zandy

30. The Truth About Growing Up Rich by Sallie Bingham

31. Keeping Close to Home: Class and Education by bell hooks

32. Daddy Tucked the Blanket by Randall Williams

33. Homeless in America by Sabena Siddiqui

34. Student Debt Lives On Hold by Consumer Reports

Suggestions for Responding to Part III

Suggestion for Responding to Identity

Power

Part IV Power and Racism

35. Why “Birth of a Nation” Still Matters in American Politics by Frank Louis Rusciano

36. ICE Spokesman Quits, Bashes Trump Administration on Immigration Raids by Willa Frej

37. Historical Discrimination in the Immigration Laws by U.S. Commission on Civil Rights

38. Immigration Laws since 1980: The Closing Door by Barbara Franz

39. Consider the Trauma Immigration Raids Cause for Children by Dr. Rebekah Diamond

40. The Year in Hate: Trump Buoyed White Supremacists in 2017, Sparking Backlash Among Black Nationalist Groups by oDouth

41. 2-205 by Reshma Baig

42. Something About the Subject Makes It Hard to Name by Gloria Yamato

43. White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh

44. Native Americans vs. the U.S. Government by Michael Dorris

45. Urban Native Americans by Roberta Fiske-Rusciano

46. Sex, Class, and Race Intersections: Visions of Women of Color by Carol Lee Sanchez

47. Crimes Against Humanity by Ward Churchill

48. Anti-Semitism in the United States by Robert Cherry

49. Seeing More Than Black and White by Elizabeth Martinez

50. Behind Barbed Wire by John Hersey

51. Asian Americans Battle “Model Minority” Stereotype by Robert Daseler

52. “Jim Crow” Law by Benjamin Quarles

53. Jim Crow Revived in Cyberspace by Greg Palast and Martin Luther King III

54. It’s Not Just Starbucks: White Fear is an American Problem by Renee Graham

55. Emmett Louis Till, 1941–1955 by Southern Poverty Law Center

56. Subtle vs. Overt Racism by David K. Shipler

57. Blacks Feel Indignities by Robert Anthony Watts
Suggestions for Responding to Part IV

Part VPower and Sexism

58. Citizenship and Violence by The American Prospect

59. Manhood on the Mat by Jackson Katz and Sut Jhally

60. For Women’s History Month, a Look at Gender Gains—and Gender Gaps—in the U.S. by Abigail Geiger and Kim Parker

61. Sexual Harassment at Work in the Era of #MeToo by Nikki Graf

62. Sexual Harassment: The Nature of the Beast by Anita Hill

63. Breaking Down Gender Bias in the Construction Industry by Kate Stephenson

64. Congress Passes Bill to Protect Young Athletes From Sexual Abuse by Feminist Newswire

65. A More Hidden Crime: Adolescent Battered Women by Nancy Worcester

66. Why Doesn’t She Just Leave? by Clarethia Ellerbe

67. Rape and Sexual Assault by James A. Doyle

68. The Sexual Assault Epidemic That No One Talks About by Joseph Shapiro

69. “The Rape” of Mr. Smith by Unknown

70. Roe v. Wade Turns 45, But There’s No Time to Celebrate by Ilyse Hogue

71. Unions Are Fighting For Families by Liz Shuler

Suggestions for Responding to Part V

Part VI Power and Classism

72. Warren Buffett Calls for Higher Taxes for US Super-Rich by Graeme Wearden

73. Imagine a Country by Holly Sklar

74. Bulging Jails Are Other American Exception by Albert R. Hunt

75. What the Dip in Life Expectancy is Really About: Inequality by Julia Belluz

76. The Opioid Epidemic Explained by German Lopez

77. Institutionalized Discrimination by Robert Cherry

78. Jury Whops Insurer by Leslie Brown

79. The Spectre of Regionalism by Hunter O’Hara

80. Why People Love “Assistance to the Poor” But Hate “Welfare” by Ashley Jardina

81. Mothers Dying After Childbirth is a Medical Issue—But Cultural Too by Erin Sagen

82. 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

83. How America Changed During Barack Obama’s Presidency by Michael Dimick

84. Ousted Standing Rock Leader on the Pipeline Protest That Almost Succeeded by Phil McKenna

85. Trump Wants Immigrants To Be Afraid by Dara Lind

86. 25 Texas Mosques Open Their Doors to Harvey Survivors by Dean Obeidalla

87. The Atlantic’s Adam Serwer: The Politics of Racism in Trump’s America by Shorenstein Center

88. The Trump Administration Isn’t Just Curtailing Women’s Rights, It’s Systematically Eroding Trust in Women by Annalisa Merelli

89. The Pendulum Effect: The Science That Took Us From Obama to Trump by Marjorie M. Fuller

90. Environmental Justice in the Age of Trump by Michael J. Brogan

91. 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

92. Attorney General Eric Holder Speaks at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum by Eric Holder

93. Diversity and Its Discontents by Arturo Madrid

94. Breakfast at Perkins by Derek Schork

95. Five Ways to Help Prevent Domestic Violence by Richard Tolman

96. Going Public with Our Vision by Charlotte Bunch

97. A Manifesto for Men by Andrew Kimbrell

98. Resistance to Change by Kathleen Ryan

99. The March for our Lives, Explained by Jen Kirby

100. Freedom for the Thought We Hate by Gerald Gunther

101. The Oklahoma Teachers’ Strike is 26 Years in the Making by Jon Hazell

Suggestions for Responding to Part VIII

Part IX Change Makers

102. Boys State by Michael Moore

103. Victory at Arnot by Mary Harris “Mother” Jones

104. The Organizer’s Tale by César Chávez

105. The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act by Ramon Johnson

106. Free at Last by Southern Poverty Law Center

107. The Movement by Anne Moody

108. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle by Muriel Tillinghast

109. “Don’t Tell Us It Can’t Be Done” by Michael Ryan

110. Saving Native Lands by Valerie Taliman

111. Cecilia Fire Thunder: She Inspires Her People by Ann Davis

112. Claiming Respect for Ancestral Remains: Repatriation and the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma by Robert L. Cast, Bobby Gonzalez, and Timothy K. Perttula

113. The Weinstein Effect by Linda Barstyn

114. A New Lynching Memorial Highlights America’s Grim Legacy of Racial Terrorism by P.R. Lockhart

115. Message to My Daughters by Edwidge Danticat

Suggestions for Responding to Part IX

Suggestions for Responding to Change

Credits C1

Index I1

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