Rethinking the color line: readings in race and ethnicity

Preface

Introduction Rethinking the Color Line: Understanding How Boundaries Shift

Part I. Sorting by colour: Why We Attach Meaning to Race

A. Race and Ethnicity: Sociohistoric Constructions

1. How Our Skins Got Their Color / Marvin Harris

2. Drawing the Color Line / Howard Zirm

3. Racial Formations / Michael Omi / Howard Winant

4. Defining Race and Ethnicity / C. Matthew Snipp

5. Racialized Social System Approach to Racism / Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

Seeing the Big Picture: The Social Construction of Race, 1790-2000

B. Race and Ethnicity: Contemporary Socioeconomic Trends

6. Understanding Racial-Ethnic Disparities in Health: Sociological Contributions / David R.Williams / Michelle Sternthal

Seeing the Big Picture: How Race Can Be Hazardous to Your Health

7. Transformative Assets, the Racial Wealth Gap, and the American Dream / Thomas M. Shapiro

Seeing the Big Picture: The Color of Money

C. Race as Chameleon: How the Idea of Race Changes over Time and Place

8. Defining Race: Comparative Perspectives / F.James Davis

Seeing the Big Picture: What Was Your Race in 1890?

9. A Tour of Indian Peoples and Indian Lands / David E.Wilkins

Seeing the Big Picture: From Riches to the "Res" (Reservation System)

10. Asian American Panethnicity: Contemporary National and Transnational Possibilities / Yen Le Espiritu

Seeing the Big Picture: Panethnic Fortunes: Riches and Rags

11. Beyond Black and White: Remaking Race in America / Jennifer Lee / Frank D. Bean

Seeing the Big Picture: Check All That Apply (Finally!): The Institutionalization of Mixed Race Identity

D. Color-Blind America: Fact, Fantasy, or Our Future?

12. Color-Blind Privilege: The Social and Political Functions of Erasing the Color Line in Post-Race America / Charles A. Gallagher

13. The Ideology of Color Blindness / Lani Guinier / Gerald Torres

Seeing the Big Picture: Color-Blind or Blind to Color?

14. The Possibility of a New Racial Hierarchy in the Twenty-First-Century United States / Herbert J. Gans

Part II. Prejudice, Discrimination, and Racism

A. Understanding Racism

15. Race Prejudice as a Sense of Group Position / Herbert Blumer

Seeing the Big Picture: Racism: Group Position or Individual Belief?

16. Race and Gender Discrimination: Contemporary Trends / James Sterba

17. Discrimination and the American Creed / Robert K. Merton

18. How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in America / Moustafa Bayoumi

Seeing the Big Picture: America's New Public Enemy?

19. The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: Racialized Social Democracy / George Lipsitz

Seeing the Big Picture: Race as an Investment

20. Laissez-Faire Racism, Racial Inequality, and die Role of the Social Sciences / Lawrence D. Bobo

B. How Space Gets Raced

21. Residential Segregation and Neighborhood Conditions in U.S. Metropolitan Areas / Douglas S. Massey

Seeing the Big Picture: How Integrated Is Your Neighborhood?

22. The Code of the Streets / Elijah Anderson

23. Environmental Justice in the 21st Century: Race Still Matters / Robert D. Billiard

24. Race, Religion, and the Color Line (Or Is That the Color Wall?) / Michael O. Emerson

25. Why Are There No Supermarkets in My Neighborhood? The Long Search for Fresh Fruit, Produce, and Healthy Food / Shannon N. Zenk (et al.)

Seeing the Big Picture: Urban Food Deserts: Race, Health, and the Lack of "Real" Food

Part III. Racialized Opportunity in Social Institutions

A. Race and Criminal Justice: Oxymoron or an American Tragedy?

26. No Equal Justice: The Color of Punishment / David Cole

Seeing the Big Picture: How Race Tips the Scales of Justice

27. The New Jim Crow / Michelle Alexander

28. Racialized Mass Incarceration: Rounding Up the Usual Suspects / Lawrence D. Bobo / Victor Thompson

Seeing the Big Picture: The Color of Incarceration Rates

29. The Mark of a Criminal Record / Devah Pager

Seeing the Big Picture: The Link between Race, Education, Employment, and Crime

30. Using DNA for Justice: Color-blind or Biased? / Sheldon Krimsky / Tarda Simoncelli

B How Race Shapes the Workplace

31. Kristen v. Aisha; Brad v. Rasheed: What's in a Name and How It Affects Getting a Job / Amy Braverman

32. When the Melting Pot Boils Over: The Irish, Jews, Blacks, and Koreans of New York / Roger Waldinger

Seeing the Big Picture: Who's Got the "Good" Jobs and Why

33. "There's No Shame in My Game": Status and Stigma among Harlem's Working Poor / Katherine S. Newman / Catherine Ellis

34. Sweatshops in Sunset Park: A Variation of the Late-Twentieth-Century Chinese Garment Shops in New York City / Xiaolan Bao

35. Hispanics in the American South and the Transformation of the Poultry Industry / William Kandel / Emilio A. Parrado

Seeing the Big Picture: How Is Upward Mobility Linked to Education, Occupation, and Immigration?

C. Race, Representations, and the Media

36. Racism and Popular Culture / Danielle Dirks / Jennifer Mueller 285

37. The Media as a System of Racialization: Exploring Images of African American Women and the New Racism Marci Bounds Littlejield

38. Black and White in Movies: Portrayals of Black-White Biracial Characters in Movies / Alicia Edison / George Yancey

Seeing the Big Picture: How the Media Shapes Perceptions of Race and Occupations

D. Crazy Horse Malt Liquor and Athletes: The Tenacity of Stereotypes

39. Winnebagos, Cherokees, Apaches, and Dakotas: The Persistence of Stereotyping of American Indians in American Advertising and Brands / Debra Merskin

Seeing the Big Picture: The Tomahawk Chop: Racism in Image and Action

40. Sport in America: The New Racial Stereotypes / Richard E. Lapchick

Seeing the Big Picture: Television's Interracial Images: Some Fact, Mostly Fiction

Part IV. How America's Complexion Changes

A. Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration

41. The Melting Pot and the Color Line / Stephen Steinberg

Seeing the Big Picture: Who Is Allowed to "Melt" in the Pot? Who Wants To?

42. Who Are the Other African Americans? Contemporary African and Caribbean Immigrants in the United States / John R. Logan

43. The Arab Immigrant Experience / Michael W.Suleiman

44. Ethnic and Racial Identities of Second-Generation Black Immigrants in New York City / Mary C. Waters

Seeing the Big Picture: Is a Nonethnic Racial Identity Possible?

B. Race and Romance: Blurring Boundaries

45. Guess Who's Been Coming to Dinner? Trends in Interracial Marriage over the 20th Century / Roland G. Fryer Jr.

46. Captain Kirk Kisses Lieutenant Uhura: Interracial IntimaciesThe View from Hollywood / Randall L. Kennedy

Seeing the Big Picture: Love May Be Blind, but It's Not Color-Blind

47. Discovering Racial Borders / Heather M. Dalmage

48. Redrawing the Color Line? The Problems and Possibilities of Multiracial Families and Group Making / Kimberly McClain DaCosta

Seeing the Big Picture: Interracial Marriage and the Blurring of the Color Line

C. Living with Less Racism: Strategies for Individual Action

49. Policy Steps toward Closing the Gap / Meizhu Lui / Bárbara J. Robles / Betsy Leondar-Wright / Rose M. Brewer / Rebecca Adamson

50. Ten Things You Can Do to Improve Race Relations / Charles A. Gallagher

Appendix: Race by the Numbers:America's Racial Report Card

Notes and References