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008 071217s2008 nyu 001 0 eng
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050 00 $aHN59.2$b.M44 2008
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245 04 $aThe meaning of difference :$bAmerican constructions of race, sex and gender, social class, sexual orientation, and disability /$cKaren Rosenblum, Toni-Michelle Travis [editors].
250 $a5th ed.
260 $aNew York, NY :$bMcGraw-Hill,$cc2008.
263 $a0802
300 $ap. cm.
500 $aIncludes index.
505 0 $aConstructing categories of difference -- Framework essay: What is race? What is ethnicity? -- "Race" and the construction of human identity / Audrey Smedley -- Who is black? One nation's definition / F. James Davis -- The evolution of identity / Washington Post -- Real Indians: identity and the survival of Native America / Eva Marie Garroutte -- Asian American panethnicity: contemporary national and transnational possibilities / Yen Le Espiritu -- Personal account: I thought my race was invisible / Sherri H. Pereira -- Whiteness as an "unmarked" cultural category / Ruth Frankenberg -- America's changing color lines: immigration, race/ethnicity, and multiracial identification / Jennifer Lee and Frank D. Bean -- Personal account: the best of both worlds / Mindy Peral -- "We are all Americans": the Latin Americanization of race relations in the United States / Eduardo Bonilla-Silva and Karen S. Glover -- What is sex? What is gender? The five sexes, revisited / Anne Fausto-Sterling -- The gendered society / Michael S. Kimmel -- Personal account: basketball / Andrea M. Busch -- Who put the "trans" in transgender? Gender theory and everyday life / Suzanne Kessler and Wendy McKenna -- What is social class? -- What's class got to do with it? / Michael Zweig -- Personal account: lucky Americans / LeiLani Page -- The rich, the poor and the growing gap between them: inequality in America / The Economist -- Framing class: media representations of wealth and poverty in America / Diana Kendall.
505 0 $aMiddle-class social reproduction: the activation and negotiation of structural advantages / Peter Kaufman -- Personal account: I am a Pakistani woman / Hoorie I. Siddique -- This hard-earned money comes stuffed in their genes / Dusty Horwitt -- What is sexual orientation? -- Is homosexual a noun? / Paul R. Abramson and Steven D. Pinkerton -- Personal account: living invisibly / Tara S. Ellison -- A new paradigm for understanding women's sexuality and sexual orientation / Letitia Anne Peplau and Linda D. Garnets -- The end of gay (and the death of heterosexuality) / Bert Archer -- Heterosexual questionnaire / Martin Rochlin -- What is disability? -- Disability definitions: the politics of meaning / Michael Oliver -- What do disabilities have to do with diversity? / Pat McCune -- Personal account: a time I didn't feel normal / Heather Callender -- A world of their own / Liza Mundy -- Experiencing difference -- Framework essay -- Race and ethnicity -- Latinos and the U.S. race structure / Clara E. Rodríguez -- Personal account: what's in a name? / Ruth C. Feldsberg -- "Why are all the black kids sitting together in the cafeteria? / Beverly Daniel Tatum -- Middle Eastern lives in America / Amir Marvasti and Karyn D. McKinney -- Everybody's ethnic enigma / Jelita McLeod -- Personal account: my strategies / Eric Jackson -- Adopted in China, seeking identity in America / Lynette Clemetson -- Loot or find: fact or frame? / Cheryl I. Harris and Devon W. Carbado -- Personal account: he hit her / Tim Norton -- Sex and gender -- Chappals and gym shorts: an Indian-Muslim woman in the land of Oz / Almas Sayeed.
505 0 $aProving manhood / Timothy Beneke -- Personal account: just something you did as a man / Francisco Hernandez -- Proud to wear my hijab / Syeda Rezwana Nodi -- Sexual orientation -- Beyond the closet: the transformation of gay and lesbian life / Steven Seidman -- Sexual orientation and sex in women's lives: conceptual and methodological issues / Esther D. Rothblum -- Anti-gay slurs common at school: a lesson in cruelty / Laura Sessions Stepp -- Personal account: an opportunity to get even / Gillian Carroll -- Social class -- Nickel and dimed: on (not) getting by in America / Barbara Ehrenreich -- Personal account: how I learned to appreciate printers / Sandra Pamela Maida -- Cause of death: inequality / Alejandro Reuss -- Why are droves of unqualified, unprepared kids getting into our top colleges? Because their dads are alumni / John Larew -- The opportunity for a college education: real promise or hollow rhetoric? / Brian K. Fitzgerald -- Personal account: that moment of visibility / Rose B. Pascarell -- Disability -- Public transit / John Hockenberry -- "Can you see the rainbow?" The roots of denial / Sally French -- Not blind enough: living in the borderland called legal blindness / Beth Omansky -- The meaning of difference -- Framework essay -- Intersectionality -- It's all in the family: intersections of gender, race, and nation / Patricia Hill Collins -- Toward a theory of disability and gender / Thomas J. Gerschick -- Oppression / Marilyn Frye -- White privilege: unpacking the invisible knapsack / Peggy McIntosh -- Personal account: my secret / Sarah Herschler -- Ethnic identity and racial formations: race and racism American-style and a Lo Latino / Marta Cruz-Janzen -- I/me/mine: intersectional identities as negotiated minefields / Shuddhabrata Sengupta -- Law, public policy, and economy -- Thirteen key Supreme Court cases and the Civil War amendments -- The minority rights revolution / John D. Skrentny -- The bankruptcy of virtuous markets: racial inequality, poverty, and "individual failure" / Michael K. Brown, Martin Carnoy, Elliott Currie, Troy Duster, David B Oppenheimer, Marjorie M. Schultz, and David Wellman -- Personal account: just like my mama said / Anthony McNeill -- The model minority: Asian American "success" as a race relations failure / Frank Wu -- Personal account: let me work for it! / Isabelle Nguyen -- The pressure to cover / Kenji Yoshino -- The other movement that Rosa Parks inspired: by sitting down, she made room for the disabled / Charles Wilson -- Language -- Gender stereotyping in the English language / Laurel Richardson -- Claiming disability: knowledge and identity / Simi Linton -- Colormute: race talk dilemmas in an American school / Mica Pollock -- Bridging differences -- Framework essay -- Influencing public policy / Jeanine C. Cogan -- What can we do? Becoming part of the solution / Allan G. Johnson -- Personal account: parent's underestimated love / Octavio N. Espinal -- Racetalk: bridging boundaries / Kristen A. Myers -- In defense of rich kids / William Upski Wimsatt -- Uprooting racism: how white people can work for racial justice / Paul Kivel -- Personal account: where are you from? / C.C -- Index.
651 0 $aUnited States$xSocial conditions$y1980-
650 0 $aPluralism (Social sciences)$zUnited States.
700 1 $aRosenblum, Karen Elaine.
700 1 $aTravis, Toni-Michelle,$d1947-
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