The Meaning of Difference: American Constructions of Race and Ethnicity, Sex and Gender, Social Class, Sexuality, and Disability 7th Edition by Karen Rosenblum, ISBN-13: 978-0078027024
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- Publisher: McGraw Hill; 7th edition (February 5, 2015)
- Language: English
- 560 pages
- ISBN-10: 0078027020
- ISBN-13: 978-0078027024
How do categories of people come to be seen as “different”? How does being “different” affect people’s lives? What does difference mean at the level of the individual, social institutions, or society? What difference does “difference” make? The Meaning of Difference offers a conceptual structure and up-to-date readings on the differences distinctive to American life―differences of race and ethnicity, sex and gender, social class, sexuality, and disability.
Table of Contents:
Copyright Page
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Contents
Preface
SECTION I— CONSTRUCTING CATEGORIES OF DIFFERENCE
FRAMEWORK ESSAY
WHAT IS RACE? WHAT IS ETHNICITY?
1. “Race” and the Construction of Human Identity Audrey Smedley
2. Who Is Black? One Nation’s Defi nition F. James Davis
3. The Evolution of Identity The Washington Post
Personal Account: A Loaded Vacation Niah Grimes
4. Real Indians: Identity and the Survival of Native America Eva Marie Garroutte
5. An Interlocking Panethnicity: The Negotiation of Multiple Identities among Asian American Social
Personal Account: I Thought My Race Was Invisible Sherri H. Pereira
6. Latino Racial Choices: The Effects of Skin Colour and Discrimination on Latinos’ and Latinas’
7. Whiteness as an “Unmarked” Cultural Category Ruth Frankenberg
8. Plus Ça Change . . . ? Multiraciality and the Dynamics of Race Relations in the United States Fr
Personal Account: The Price of Nonconformity Julia Morgenstern
Personal Account: Basketball Andrea M. Busch
WHAT IS SEX? WHAT IS GENDER?
9. The Olympic Struggle over Sex Alice Dreger
10. All Together Now: Intersex Infants and IGM Riki Wilchins
11. Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference Cordelia Fine
WHAT IS SOCIAL CLASS?
12. What’s Class Got to Do with It? Michael Zweig
13. The Silver Spoon: Inheritance and the Staggered Start Stephen J. McNamee and Robert K. Miller Jr
Personal Account: I Am a Pakistani Woman Hoorie I. Siddique
14. The Great Divergence: America’s Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do about It Timothy
WHAT IS SEXUALITY?
15. Sexual Fluidity: Understanding Women’s Love and Desire Lisa M. Diamond
16. The Biology of the Homosexual Roger N. Lancaster
17. The Heterosexual Questionnaire Martin Rochlin
WHAT IS DISABILITY?
18. Disability Defi nitions: The Politics of Meaning Michael Oliver
Personal Account: Invisibly Disabled Heather L. Shaw
19. What Wounds Enable: The Politics of Disability and Violence in Chicago Laurence Ralph
20. Ethnicity, Ethics, and the Deaf-World Harlan Lane
SECTION II— EXPERIENCING DIFFERENCE
FRAMEWORK ESSAY
RACE AND ETHNICITY
21 . Formulating Identity in a Globalized World Carola Suárez-Orozco
Personal Account: Hair Sarah Faragalla
Personal Account: The Americanization of a Reluctant Vietnamese-American Hoai Huong Tran
22 . Latinos and the U.S. Race Structure Clara E. Rodríguez
23 . Everybody’s Ethnic Enigma Jelita McLeod
Personal Account: My Strategies Eric Jackson
24 . From Friendly Foreigner to Enemy Race John Tehranian
Personal Account: Master Status: Pride and Danger Sumaya Al-Hajebi
SEX AND GENDER
25 . The Privilege of Teaching about Privilege Michael A. Messner
26 . Proving Manhood Timothy Beneke
Personal Account: Just Something You Did as a Man Francisco Hernandez
27 . “I’m Not a Feminist, But . . .”: Popular Myths about Feminism Penny A. Weiss
SEXUALITY
28 . Dude, You’re a Fag: Adolescent Male Homophobia C. J. Pascoe
29 . Gendered Sexuality in Young Adulthood: Double Binds and Flawed Options Laura Hamilton and Eliza
Personal Account: Living Invisibly Tara S. Ellison
30 . Sexual Orientation and Sex in Women’s Lives: Conceptual and Methodological Issues Esther D. R
SOCIAL CLASS
31 . Cause of Death: Inequality Alejandro Reuss
32 . Why Are Droves of Unqualifi ed, Unprepared Kids Getting into Our Top Colleges? Because Their Da
Personal Account: That Moment of Visibility Rose B. Pascarell
33 . The Myth of the “Culture of Poverty” Paul Gorski
DISABILITY
34 . Public Transit John Hockenberry
35 . “Can You See the Rainbow?” The Roots of Denial Sally French
36 . Not Blind Enough: Living in the Borderland Called Legal Blindness Beth Omansky
Personal Account: A Time I Didn’t Feel Normal Heather Callender
SECTION III— THE MEANING OF DIFFERENCE
FRAMEWORK ESSAY
RACE AND ETHNICITY
37 . Fourteen Key Supreme Court Cases and the Civil War Amendments
38 . Blink in Black and White Malcolm Gladwell
Personal Account: Just Like My Mama Said Anthony McNeill
39 . Safe Haven in America? Thirty Years after the Refugee Act of David W. Haines
40 . Hispanics Are Forgotten in Civil Rights History Nicholas Dauphine
41 . Balancing Identities: Undocumented Immigrant Asian American Students and the Model Minority Myt
Personal Account: Let Me Work for It! Isabelle Nguyen
42 . Segregated Housing, Segregated Schools Richard Rothstein
SEX AND GENDER
43 . Many Faces of Gender Inequality Amartya Sen
Personal Account: He Hit Her Tim Norton
44 . The Not-So-Pink Ivory Tower Ann Mullen
45 . The Gender Revolution: Uneven and Stalled Paula England
SEXUALITY
46 . Sex Education and the Promotion of Heteronormativity Tanya McNeill
Personal Account: Learning My Own Privilege Mireille M. Cecil
47 . Gaga Relations: The End of Marriage J. Jack Halberstam
48 . Queers without Money: They Are Everywhere. But We Refuse to See Them Amber Hollibaugh
SOCIAL CLASS
49 . Rethinking American Poverty Mark R. Rank
50 . Tearing Down the Gates: Confronting the Class Divide in American Education Peter Sacks
51 . Wealth Stripping: Why It Costs So Much to Be Poor James H. Carr
DISABILITY
52 . Disability Trouble Bradley A. Areheart
53 . Learning Disabilities: The Social Construction of a Special Education Category Christine E. Sle
54 . (Re)Creating a World in Seven Days: Place, Disability, and Salvation in Extreme Makeover: Home
SECTION IV— BRIDGING DIFFERENCES
FRAMEWORK ESSAY
55 . Adolescent Masculinity in an Age of Decreased Homohysteria Eric Anderson
56 . What Can We Do? Becoming Part of the Solution Allan G. Johnson
Personal Account: Parents’ Underestimated Love Octavio N. Espinal
57 . In Defense of Rich Kids William Upski Wimsatt
Personal Account: Where Are You From? C.C.
58 . Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice Paul Kivel
Credits C-1
Index I-1
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