An edition of The meaning of difference: American constructions of race, sex and gender, social class, and sexual orientation : a text/reader
(1999)
The meaning of difference
American constructions of race, sex and gender, social class, sexual orientation, and disability
5th ed.
by Karen Elaine Rosenblum, Toni-Michelle Travis, Karen E. Rosenblum, and Toni-Michelle C. Travis
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Table of Contents
Constructing 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.
Middle-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.
Proving 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
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