The meaning of difference
Subtitle: American constructions of race, sex and gender, social class, sexual orientation, and disability : a text/reader
By: Karen E. Rosenblum, Toni-Michelle C. Travis [editors]
Edition: 6th ed.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Dubuque
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780078111648
Subjects: Social conditions; Cultural pluralism
Table of contents: title: Constructing categories of difference; title: Framework essay; title: What is race? what is ethnicity?; title: "Race" and the construction of human identity / Audrey Smedley; title: Who is black? : one nation's definition / F. James Davis; title: The evolution of identity : the Washington Post : personal account : a loaded vacation / Niah Grimes; title: Real Indians : identity and the survival of native America / Eva Marie Garroutte; title: Asian American panethnicity : contemporary national and transnational possibilities / Yen Le Espiritu; title: Personal account : I thought my race was invisible / Sherri H. Pereira; title: Whiteness as an "unmarked" cultural category / Ruth Frankenberg; title: America's changing color lines : immigration, race/ethnicity, and multiracial identification / Jennifer Lee and Frank D. Bean; title: Personal account : the price of nonconformity / Julia Morgenstern; title: From friendly foreigner to enemy race / John Tehranian; title: Personal account : master status : pride and danger / Sumaya Al-Hajebi; title: What is sex? : what is gender?; title: The gendered society / Michael S. Kimmel; title: Personal account : basketball / Andrea M. Busch; title: Where's the rulebook for sex verification? / Alice Dreger; title: All together now : intersex infants and IGM / Riki Wilchins; title: What is social class?; title: What's class got to do with it? / Michael Zweig; title: More or less equal? / The Economist; title: The silver spoon : inheritance and the staggered start / Stephen J. McNamee and Robert K. Miller Jr.; title: Personal account : I am a Pakistani woman / Hoorie I. Siddique; title: What is sexual orientation?; title: The biology of the homosexual / Roger N. Lancaster; title: A new paradigm for understanding women's sexuality and sexual orientation / Letitia Anne Peplau and Linda D. Garnets; title: The heterosexual questionnaire / Martin Rochlin; title: What is disability?; title: Disability definitions : the politics of meaning / Michael Oliver; title: Personal account : invisibly disabled / Heather L. Shaw; title: A world of their own / Liza Mundy; title: Ethnicity, ethics, and the deaf-world / Harlan Lane; title: Section II: Experiencing difference; title: Framework essay; title: Race and ethnicity; title: Formulating identity in a globalized world / Carola Surez-Orozco; title: Latinos and the U.S. race structure / Clara E. Rodriguez; title: Muslim American youth / Selcuk R. Sirin and Michelle Fine; title: Personal account : hair / Sarah Faragalla; title: Everybody's ethnic enigma / Jelita McLeod; title: Personal account : my strategies / Eric Jackson; title: Sex and gender; title: It's all in the family : intersections of gender, race, and nation / Patricia Hill Collins; title: Proving manhood / Timothy Beneke; title: Personal account : just something you did as a man / Francisco Hernandez; title: Gendered sexuality in young adulthood / Laura Hamilton and Elizabeth A. Armstrong; title: Sexual orientation; title: Beyond the closet : the transformation of gay and lesbian life / Steven Seidman; title: Personal account : living invisibly / Tara S. Ellison; title: Dude, you're a fag / C. J. Pascoe; title: Sexual orientation and sex in women's lives : conceptual and methodological issues / Esther D. Rothblum; title: Social class; title: Class and the transition to adulthood / Annette Lareau and Elliot B. Weininger; title: Personal account : that moment of visibility / Rose B. Pascarell; title: Cause of death : inequality / Alejandro Reuss; title: Why are droves of unqualified, unprepared kids getting into our top colleges? : because their dads are alumni / John Larew; title: Disability; title: Public transit / John Hockenberry; title: "Can you see the rainbow?" the roots of denial / Sally French; title: Not blind enough : living in the borderland called legal blindness / Beth Omansky; title: Personal account : a time I didn't feel normal / Heather Callender; title: The meaning of difference; title: Framework essay; title: Ideology : natural-law language and stereo types oppression / Marilyn Frye; title: Blink in black and white / Malcolm Gladwell; title: Personal account : just like my mama said / Anthony McNeill; title: See baby discriminate / Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman; title: Between barack and a hard place / Tim Wise; title: The model minority : Asian American "success" as a race relations failure / Frank Wu; title: Personal account : let me work for it! / Isabelle Nguyen; title: The gender revolution uneven and stalled / Paula England; title: Law, public policy, and economy; title: Fourteen key supreme court cases and the civil war amendments; title: Segregation : the rising costs for America / James H. Carr and Nandinee K. Kutty; title: Personal account : learning my own privilege / Mireille M. Cecil; title: Land rich, dirt poor : challenges to asset building in native America / Meizhu Lui, Barbara J. Robles, Betsy Leondar-Wright, Rose M. Brewer, and Rebecca Adamson; title: Multiple origins, uncertain destinies : Hispanics and the American future / Marta Tienda and Faith Mitchell, editors; title: Personal account : what's in a name? / Ruth C. Feldsberg; title: Crossing the color line : a historical assessment and personal narrative of loving V. Virginia / Robert A. Pratt; title: Popular culture; title: Framing class : media representations of wealth and poverty in America / Diana Kendall; title: Loot or find : fact or frame? / Cheryl I. Harris and Devon W. Carbado; title: Personal account : he hit her / Tim Norton; title: The protean n-word / Randall Kennedy; title: Disability and representation / Rosemarie Garland-Thomson; title: Female chauvinist pigs / Ariel Levy; title: Gender stereotyping in the English language / Laurel Richardson; title: Bridging differences; title: Framework essay; title: Lilly's big day / Gail Collins; title: The other movement that Rosa Parks inspired : by sitting down, she made room for the disabled / Charles Wilson; title: Influencing public policy / Jeanine C. Cogan.