* NEW articles** REVISED articles Part I - The Social Construction of Difference: Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality
1. Racial Formations - Michael Omi and Howard Winant
2. The Ethics of Living Jim Crow: An Autobiographical Sketch - Richard Wright
3. Constructing Race, Creating White Privilege - Pem Davidson Buck
4. How Jews Became White - Karen Brodkin
5. Night to His Day”: The Social Construction of Gender - Judith Lorber
6. The Social Construction of Sexuality - Ruth Hubbard
7. The Invention of Heterosexuality - Jonathan Ned Katz
8. Masculinity as Homophobia - Michael S. Kimmel
9. Disability and the Justification of Inequality in American History - Douglas C. Baynton
10. Deconstructing the Underclass - Herbert Gans
11. Domination and Subordination - Jean Baker Miller
Suggestions for Further Reading
Part II - Understanding Racism, Sexism, Heterosexism, and Class Privilege
1. Defining Racism: Can We Talk?” - Beverley Daniels Tatum
2. Color-Blind Racism - Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
*3. White Like Me - Frank Rich
**4. Smells Like Racism - Rita Chaudhry Sethi
5. Oppression - Marilyn Frye
6. Patriarchy - Allan G. Johnson
7. Homophobia As a Weapon of Sexism - Suzanne Pharr
8. White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack - Peggy McIntosh
**9. Class in America2009 Gregory Mantsios
Suggestions for Further Reading
Part III Race in the 21st Century: Complicating Questions of Race and Ethnicity
*1. A Nation of None and All of the Above Sam Roberts
2. Immigration and the US - MPI staff, updated by Kevin Jernegan
3. Los Intersticios: Recasting Moving Selves - Evelyn Alsutany
4. Going Beyond Black and White, Hispanics in Census Pick Other - Mireya Navarro
5. Shades of Belonging: Latinos and Racial Identity - Sonya Tafoya
6. Asian American - Sonia Shah
7. The Myth of the Model Minority - Noy Thrupkaew
8. Is This a White Country, or What?” - Lillian Rubin
9. Personal Voices: Facing Up to Race - Carrie Ching
Suggestions for Further Readings
Part IV Some Examples of Discrimination in Everyday Life
1. The Problem: Discrimination - U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
2. Abercrombie Settles Class Action Suit
*3. Apparel Factory Workers were Cheated, State Says - Steven Greenhouse
4. Refusal to Hire Unattractive Saleswoman Led to Dismissal - Steven Greenhouse
5. Where English Only” Falls Short - Stacy A. Teicher
6. Women in the State Police: Trouble in the Ranks - Jonathan Schuppe
7 . Blacks vs. Latinos at Work - Miriam Jordan
8. Manhattan Store Owner Accused of Underpaying and Sexually Harassing Workers -Steven Greenhouse
9. Muslim Running Back off the Team at New Mexico State - Mathew Rothschild
10. Tennessee Judge Tells Immigrant Mothers: Learn English or Else - Ellen Barry
11. Goodbye to Pat Morita, Best Supporting Asian - Lawrence Downes
12. Arsonist Sentenced for Hate Crimes - Tom Kertscher
13. My Black Skin Makes My White Coat Vanish - Mana Lumumba-Kasongo
14. Closing Doors on Americans Housing Choices - Margery Austin Turner and Carla Herbig
15. The Segregated Classrooms of a Proudly Diverse School - Jeffrey Gettleman
*16. Race and Family Income of Students Influence Guidance Counselors Advice, Study Finds Eric Hoover
17. College Choices Are Limited for Students from Needy Families, Report SaysStephen Burd
18. Wealthy Often Win the Race for Merit-Based College Aid - Jay Mathews
*19. A Death in PatchogueNew York Times Editorial
20. On L.I., Raid Stirs Dispute over Influx of Immigrants - Bruce Lambert
21. More Blacks Live with Pollution - Associated Press
22. Lesbian Sues School District over Harassment - Judy Peet
*23. Director Accuses Police Complaint Board of Bias - Christine Hauser
Suggestions for Further Reading
PART V - The Economics of Race, Class, and Gender in the United States
**1. Imagine a Country2009 Holly Sklar
*2. Income Gap is Widening - David Cay Johnston
*3. Meet the Wealth Gap Gabriel Thompson
4. Billionaires R Us - Chuck Collins and Felice Yeskel
5. Shhh, Dont Say Poverty” - Bob Herbert
*6. Race and Extreme Inequality Derick Muhammad
*7. Post-Racial? Not Yet Fred McKissak Jr.
*8. Forty Acres and a Gap in Wealth Henry Louis Gates Jr.
9. The Economic Reality of Being Latino/a in the U.S. - Meizhu Lui and others
10. The Economic Reality of Being Asian American - Meizhu Lui and others
*11. Women Losing Ground Ruth Conniff
*12. Lillys Big Day” Gail Collins
13. The Wage Gap and and Its Costs
*14. The Sons Also Rise - Paul Krugman
15. The Education of Jessica Rivera - Kim Phillips-Fein
16. Savage Inequalities” Revisited - Bob Feldman
17. Cause of Death: Inequality - Alejandro Reuss
18. Immigrations Aftermath - Alejandro Portes
19. Suggestions for Further Reading PART VI - Many Voices, Many Lives: Some Consequences of Race, Class, and Gender Inequality 1. Civilize Them with a Stick - Mary Brave Bird (Crow Dog) with Richard Erdoes
2. Then Came the War - Yuri Kochiyama
3. Yellow - Frank Wu
4. The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria - Judith Ortiz Cofer
5. The Arab Woman and I - Mona Fayad
*6. Beach Blanket Baja Helena María Viramontes
7. Crossing the Border Without Losing Your Past - Oscar Casares
8. The Event of Becoming - Jewelle L. Gomez
9. This Person Doesnt Sound White - Ziba Kashef
10. Family Ties and the Entanglements of Caste - Joseph Berger
11. What I Learned about Jews - Joe Wood
12. Pigskin, Patriarchy, and Pain - Don Sabo
13. The Slave Side of Sunday - Dave Zirin
14. How to Sell Humvees to Men - Mary Beckman
15. He Defies You Still: The Memoirs of a Sissy - Tommi Avicolli
16. With No Immediate Cause - Ntozake Shange
17. Requiem for the Champ - June Jordan
*18. Her College Experience Is Not His - Linda Sax
*19. Gay Marriage Is a Question of Love Keith Olbermann
*20. Eight Is Enough - Patricia J. Williams
21. Out of the Closet, But Not Out of Middle School - Libby Copeland
*22. For You, My Lovely, A Face Lift - Natasha Singer
23. Before Spring Break, The Anorexic Challenge - Alex Williams
24. My First Time - Allana Allen
25. The Case of Kowalski & Thompson: Ableism, Heterosexism, and Sexism - Joan Griscom
26. Lame - Joyce Avies
27. C. P. Ellis - Studs Terkel
Suggestions for Further Reading
PART VII - How It Happened: Race and Gender Issues in U.S. Law
1. Indian Tribes: A Continuing Quest for Survival - U.S. Commission on Human Rights
2. An Act for the Better Ordering and Governing of Negroes and Slaves, South Carolina, 1712
3. The "Three-Fifths Compromise" - The U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 2
4. An Act Prohibiting the Teaching of Slaves to Read
5. Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, Seneca Falls Convention, 1848
6. The Antisuffragists: Selected Papers, 18521887
7. People v. Hall, 1854
8. Dred Scot v. Sandford, 1857
9. The Emancipation Proclamation - Abraham Lincoln
10. United States Constitution: Thirteenth (1865), Fourteenth (1868), and Fifteenth (1870) Amendments
11. The Black Codes - W.E.B. Du Bois
12. Bradwell v. Illinois, 1875
13. Minor v. Happersett, 1875
14. California Constitution, 1876
15. Elk v. Wilkins, November 3, 1884
16. Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896
17. United States Constitution: Nineteenth Amendment (1920)
18. Korematsu v. United States, 1944
19. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 1954
20. Roe v. Wade, 1973
21. The Equal Rights Amendment (Defeated)
*22. Lawrence et al. v. Texas, 2003
*23. From Criminals and Psychopaths to the Family Next Door Paula L. Ettelbrick
Suggestions for Further Reading
PART VIII Maintaining Race, Class, and Gender Hierarchies: Reproducing Reality”
1. Self-Fulfilling Stereotypes - Mark Snyder
2. Anti-Gay Stereotypes - Richard D. Mohr
3. White Lies - Maurice Berger
4. Am I Thin Enough Yet? - Sharlene Hesse-Biber
5. Advertising at the Edge of the Apocalypse - Sut Jhally
6. The Plutocratic Culture: Institutions, Values, and Ideologies - Michael Parenti
7. Media Magic: Making Class Invisible - Gregory Mantsios
8. Still Separate, Still Unequal: Americas Educational Apartheid - Jonathan Kozol
*9. Sex and Race: The Analogy of Social Control - William Chafe
10. Masked Racism: Reflections on the Prison Industrial Complex - Angela Davis
11. Blaming the Victim - William Ryan
Suggestions for Further Reading PART IX: Social Change: Revisioning the Future and Making a Difference 1. Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference - Audre Lorde
2. Feminism: A Transformational Politic - bell hooks
3. A New Vision of Masculinity - Cooper Thompson
4. Interrupting the Cycle of Oppression: The Role of Allies as Agents of Change - Andrea Ayvazian
*5 Organizing the Fields Kirk Nielsen
*6. Solidarity at the Liquor Store Miriam Y. Cintron
*7. Upload Real Change Roberto Lovato
8. Rethinking Volunteerism in America Gavin Leonard
9. Here. Now. Do Something. William Rivers Pitt
Suggestions for Further Reading
Index