The meaning of difference
Subtitle: American constructions of race, sex and gender, social class, sexual orientation, and disability
By: Karen Rosenblum, Toni-Michelle Travis [editors].
Contributors: Rosenblum, Karen Elaine.; Travis, Toni-Michelle, 1947-
Edition: 5th ed.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780073380056
Subjects: Pluralism (Social sciences) -- United States; United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Constructing categories of difference; title: Framework essay: 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 / Washington Post; 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 best of both worlds / Mindy Peral; title: "We are all Americans": the Latin Americanization of race relations in the United States / Eduardo Bonilla-Silva and Karen S. Glover; title: What is sex? What is gender? The five sexes, revisited / Anne Fausto-Sterling; title: The gendered society / Michael S. Kimmel; title: Personal account: basketball / Andrea M. Busch; title: Who put the "trans" in transgender? Gender theory and everyday life / Suzanne Kessler and Wendy McKenna; title: What is social class?; title: What's class got to do with it? / Michael Zweig; title: Personal account: lucky Americans / LeiLani Page; title: The rich, the poor and the growing gap between them: inequality in America / The Economist; title: Framing class: media representations of wealth and poverty in America / Diana Kendall.; title: Middle-class social reproduction: the activation and negotiation of structural advantages / Peter Kaufman; title: Personal account: I am a Pakistani woman / Hoorie I. Siddique; title: This hard-earned money comes stuffed in their genes / Dusty Horwitt; title: What is sexual orientation?; title: Is homosexual a noun? / Paul R. Abramson and Steven D. Pinkerton; title: Personal account: living invisibly / Tara S. Ellison; title: A new paradigm for understanding women's sexuality and sexual orientation / Letitia Anne Peplau and Linda D. Garnets; title: The end of gay (and the death of heterosexuality) / Bert Archer; title: Heterosexual questionnaire / Martin Rochlin; title: What is disability?; title: Disability definitions: the politics of meaning / Michael Oliver; title: What do disabilities have to do with diversity? / Pat McCune; title: Personal account: a time I didn't feel normal / Heather Callender; title: A world of their own / Liza Mundy; title: Experiencing difference; title: Framework essay; title: Race and ethnicity; title: Latinos and the U.S. race structure / Clara E. Rodríguez; title: Personal account: what's in a name? / Ruth C. Feldsberg; title: "Why are all the black kids sitting together in the cafeteria? / Beverly Daniel Tatum; title: Middle Eastern lives in America / Amir Marvasti and Karyn D. McKinney; title: Everybody's ethnic enigma / Jelita McLeod; title: Personal account: my strategies / Eric Jackson; title: Adopted in China, seeking identity in America / Lynette Clemetson; title: Loot or find: fact or frame? / Cheryl I. Harris and Devon W. Carbado; title: Personal account: he hit her / Tim Norton; title: Sex and gender; title: Chappals and gym shorts: an Indian-Muslim woman in the land of Oz / Almas Sayeed.; title: Proving manhood / Timothy Beneke; title: Personal account: just something you did as a man / Francisco Hernandez; title: Proud to wear my hijab / Syeda Rezwana Nodi; title: Sexual orientation; title: Beyond the closet: the transformation of gay and lesbian life / Steven Seidman; title: Sexual orientation and sex in women's lives: conceptual and methodological issues / Esther D. Rothblum; title: Anti-gay slurs common at school: a lesson in cruelty / Laura Sessions Stepp; title: Personal account: an opportunity to get even / Gillian Carroll; title: Social class; title: Nickel and dimed: on (not) getting by in America / Barbara Ehrenreich; title: Personal account: how I learned to appreciate printers / Sandra Pamela Maida; 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: The opportunity for a college education: real promise or hollow rhetoric? / Brian K. Fitzgerald; title: Personal account: that moment of visibility / Rose B. Pascarell; 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: The meaning of difference; title: Framework essay; title: Intersectionality; title: It's all in the family: intersections of gender, race, and nation / Patricia Hill Collins; title: Toward a theory of disability and gender / Thomas J. Gerschick; title: Oppression / Marilyn Frye; title: White privilege: unpacking the invisible knapsack / Peggy McIntosh; title: Personal account: my secret / Sarah Herschler; title: Ethnic identity and racial formations: race and racism American-style and a Lo Latino / Marta Cruz-Janzen; title: I/me/mine: intersectional identities as negotiated minefields / Shuddhabrata Sengupta; title: Law, public policy, and economy; title: Thirteen key Supreme Court cases and the Civil War amendments; title: The minority rights revolution / John D. Skrentny; title: 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; title: Personal account: just like my mama said / Anthony McNeill; 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 pressure to cover / Kenji Yoshino; title: The other movement that Rosa Parks inspired: by sitting down, she made room for the disabled / Charles Wilson; title: Language; title: Gender stereotyping in the English language / Laurel Richardson; title: Claiming disability: knowledge and identity / Simi Linton; title: Colormute: race talk dilemmas in an American school / Mica Pollock; title: Bridging differences; title: Framework essay; title: Influencing public policy / Jeanine C. Cogan; title: What can we do? Becoming part of the solution / Allan G. Johnson; title: Personal account: parent's underestimated love / Octavio N. Espinal; title: Racetalk: bridging boundaries / Kristen A. Myers; title: In defense of rich kids / William Upski Wimsatt; title: Uprooting racism: how white people can work for racial justice / Paul Kivel; title: Personal account: where are you from? / C.C; title: Index.