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1. Diversity in the United States : questions and concepts -- Developing a racial identity / Lawrence Hill -- Kaffir boy / Mark Mathabane -- Prejudice, discrimination, and racism / Norman Yetman -- Using racial and ethnic concepts : the critical case of very young children / Debra Van Ausdale and Joe R. Feagin -- Constructing categories of difference / Karen Rosenblum and Toni-Michelle Travis -- The dominance of Black athletes is genetic / Jon Entine -- The argument for genetic differences is deeply flawed / Kenan Malik -- 2. Assimilation and pluralism -- Choosing a dream : Italians in Hell's Kitchen / Mario Puzo -- Always running : La Vida Loca / Luis Rodriguez -- Divided fates : immigrant children in a restructured U.S. economy / M. Patricia Fernandez-Kelly and Richard Schauffler -- Fifteen years on the bottom rung / Anthony DePalma -- "Opening" faces : the politics of cosmetic surgery and Asian American women / Eugenia Kaw -- English only will speed the assimilation of immigrants / Mauro Mujica -- Bilingualism should be encouraged / Aida Hurtado and Luis A. Vega -- 3. The development of dominant-minority relations in pre-industrial America : the origins of slavery -- Life as a slave girl / Harriet Jacobs -- Narrative of the life and adventures of / Henry Bibb and Henry Bibb -- Slavery unwilling to die : the historical development of systematic racism / Joe R. Feagin -- Jezebel and Mammy : the mythology of female slavery / Deborah Gray White -- Slavery created African American culture / Stanley Elkins -- African American culture was created by an interplay of elements from Africa and America / William D. Piersen -- 4. Industrialization and dominant-minority relations : from slavery to segregation and the coming of post-industrial society -- Death on the city pavement / Richard Wright -- The meaning of emancipation according to Black women / Angela Davis -- What is Affirmative Action? / Fred L. Pincus -- Adolescent masculinity, homophobia, and violence : random school shootings, 1982-2001 / Michael S. Kimmel and Matthew Mahler -- Affirmative Action casts suspicions on legitimate Black achievement and depicts African Americans as incapable / Thomas Sowell -- Why we still need Affirmative Action / Orlando Patterson -- 5. African Americans -- Just walk on by : a Black man ponders his power to alter public space / Brent Staples -- The mulatto millennium / Danzy Senna -- "I am not a racist but ..." : mapping white college students' racial ideology in the USA / Eduardo Bonilla-Silva and Tyrone A. Forman -- Race and criminalization : Black Americans and the punishment industry / Angela Davis -- The elephant in the living room : the issue of race in close Black/White friendships / Kathleen Odell Korgen -- Reparations for African Americans in historical context / Joe R. Feagin and Eileen O'Brien -- Reparations are an idea whose time has come / Manning Marable -- Blood money : why I don't want reparations for slavery / John McWhorter -- 6. Native Americans -- Lakota woman / Mary Crow Dog -- Talking to the owls and butterflies / John Lame Deer -- Trends among American Indians in the United States / Russell Thornton -- Growing up Indian / Leonard Peltier -- From the ground up / Charon Asetoyer -- Indian symbols and mascots are not offensive / S. L. Price and Andrea Woo -- Mascots are offensive / C. Richard King, Ellen J. Staurowsky, Lawrence Baca, R. Davis and Cornel Pewewardy -- 7. Hispanic Americans -- Americanization is tough on macho / Rose Del Castillo Guilbault -- The island travels with you / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Mock Spanish : a site for the indexical reproduction of racism in American English / Jane H. Hill -- Seeing more than black and white : Latinos, racism, and the cultural divide / Elizabeth Martinez -- Not white or black, but in between : Latinos and Asian Americans expanding the language of colorblind racism / Eileen O'Brien -- How to make an American / John Fonte -- Why we shouldn't worry about the "Hispanization" of the United States / Francis Fukuyama -- 8. Asian Americansand Pacific Islanders -- We were just Japs / Joseph Kurihara -- The interrelationship between Anti-Asian violence and Asian America / Victor M. Hwang -- South Korean sex slaves in the United States and Canada / Salim Jiwa -- The success of Japanese Americans is cultural / Harry Kitano -- The "success" of Chinese Americans is structural / Alejandro Portes and Min Zhou -- The success of Asian Americans has been exaggerated, in part, to criticize other minority groups / Ronald Takaki -- 9. New Americans : immigration and assimilation -- Life in the enclave / Ho Yang -- Life as a refugee / Vo Thi Tam -- Immigrants in American society / Philip Martin and Elizabeth Midgely -- Discrimination and the American dream : the case of Middle Eastern Americans / Amir Marvasti and Karyn D. McKinney -- Globalization and its mal(e)contents : the gendered moral and political economy of terrorism / Michael S. Kimmel -- Immigration is harmful / Peter Brimelow -- Immigration is not harmful / Reynolds Farley -- We need to reframe the immigration debate / George Borjas -- 10. White ethnic groups -- Shadow of the past / David Gray -- How Jews became White / Karen Brodkin -- White privilege and male privilege / Peggy McIntosh -- Euphemized racism : moral qua racial boundaries / Michele Lamont -- The need to understand whiteness / Richard Dyer -- Symbolic and involuntary ethnicity / Mary Waters -- 11. Antiracist and feminist solutions -- The emperor's new clothes / Patricia Williams -- The Racial Preference Licensing Act / Derrick Bell -- The redefinition and subversion of comparable worth in New York state : "we did it our way," / Ronnie Steinberg and Jennifer Hickman -- Building connections between antiracism and feminism / Eileen O'Brien and Michael P. Armato -- Abolish the white race by any means necessary / Noel Ignatiev and John Garvey -- Being an ally / Paul Kivel -- Commitment to combat racism / Judith Katz -- Tools for white guys who are working for social change / Chris Crass. |
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