Experiencing Race, Class, and Gender in the United States

Preface * Indicates New Reading IDENTITY Part I: Racial and Ethnic Identity 1 *I Walk Alone by Lonnie Poco 2 Ethnicity in American Life: The Historical Perspective by John Hope Franklin 3 *American Anthropological Association Statement on "Race" 4 The Loudest Voice by Grace Paley 5 To be Hopi or American by Polingaysi Qoyawayma (Elizabeth Q. White) 6 *People of Color Who Never Felt They Were Black by Darryl Fears 7 *Rosa Wakefield by John Langston Gwaltney 8 *I Am a Racially Profiling Doctor by Sally Satel 9 *Are Doctor's Offices Places for Racial Profiling? 10 *El Hilo Que Nos Une 11 *In Search of Bruce Lee's Grave by Shanlon Wu 12 *Remembering My Grandmother, Remembering Lebanon by Therese Saliba 13 American Dreamer by Bharati Mukherjee 14 On the Other Side of the War: A Story by Elizabeth Gordon 15 *Medicalization of Racial Features: Asian-American Women and Cosmetic Surgery by Eugenia Kaw 16 *Before the Great Gorge by Carlos Cumpian 17 Beyond the Melting Pot by William A. Henry III Part II: Gender Identity 18 In the Beginning There Are Babies by Angela Phillips 19 Time Warp in the Toy Store by Ellen J. Reifler 20 How Women are Treated in Language by Janet Shibley Hyde 21 Gender Roles and Ethnicity by Janet Shibley Hyde 22 *August Genesis by Rebecca Fiske 23 Where I Come From is Like This by Paula Gunn Allen 24 The Male Role Stereotype by Doug Cooper Thompson 25 Taking It by Leonard Kriegel 26 Tears Still Taboo for Average Guy by Carl Ryan 27 Asymmetries in Communication by Deborah Tannen Part III: Sexual Identity 28 *A Transsexual's Story by Jessica Stearns 29 *Two Sexes are Not Enough by Anne Fausto-Sterling 30 *Cold Feet: Why America Has Gay Marriage Jitters by Elisabeth Bumiller 31 *When the Political is Personal by Ann Marie Nicolosi 32 *Putting a Face on Difference: A Gay Family Visits the College Classroom by Mildred L. Rice Jordan Part IV: Economics and the American Dream 33 *This is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona by Sherman Alexie 34 Decloaking Class: Why Class Identity and Consciousness Count by Janet Zandy 35 Looking for Work by Gary Soto 36 The Truth About Growing Up Rich by Sallie Bingham 37 The Working Mother as Fashion Victim by Jody Kolodzey 38 To Be Black, Gifted, and Alone by Bebe Moore Campbell 39 Keeping Close to Home: Class and Education by bell hooks 40 Jewish and Working Class by Bernice Mennis 41 First They Changed My Name... by Caffilene Allen 42 Daddy Tucked the Blanket by Randall Williams 43 Something is Robbing Our Children of Their Future by Colin Greer 44 Mother Courage by Ariel Gore 45 We're Not Bums by Peter Swet 46 Poverty or at Home in a Car by Jackie Spinks 47 The Fall by Marge Piercy POWER Part V: Power and Racism 48 Rethinking America by Evelyn Hu-DeHart 49 Historical Discrimination in the Immigration Laws by U. S. Commission on Civil Rights 50 Anti-Immigrant Violence by Southern Poverty Law Center 51 *2-205 by Reshma Baig 52 Something About the Subject Makes It Hard to Name by Gloria Yamato 53 White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh 54 Native Americans v. The U. S. Government by Michael Dorris 55 *Urban Indians by Roberta Fiske-Rusciano 56 Sex, Class and Race Intersections: Visions of Women of Color by Carol Lee Sanchez 57 Crimes Against Humanity by Ward Churchill 58 Beyond Stereotyping by Daniela Gioseffi 59 Anti-Semitism in the United States by Robert Cherry 60 Seeing More than Black and White by Elizabeth Martinez 61*"The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria" by Judith Ortiz Kofer 62 Behind Barbed Wire by John Hersey 63 *A Personal Narrative by Susan Shimizu Taira 64 Asian Americans Battle "Model Minority" Stereotype by Robert Daseler 65 Inter-Racial Violence: Conflicts and Class and Culture by Michael Laslett 66 "Jim Crow" Law by Benjamin Quarles 67 *Jim Crow Revived in Cyberspace by Greg Palast and Martin Luther King III 68 The Negro A Beast... or in the Image of God? by Earl Ofari Hutchinson 69 Emmett Louis Till, 1941-1955 by Southern Poverty Law Center 70 As Media Furor Subsides, Jasper Sorts Out Its Future by Kyle Johnson 71 Terror in Our Neighborhoods by The Klanwatch Project of the Southern Poverty Law Center 72 Real Minority, Media Majority by Salin Mulwakkil 73 Subtle vs. Overt Racism by David K. Shipler 74 Blacks Feel Indignities by Robert Anthony Watts Part VI: Power and Sexism 75 *Manhood on the Mat by Jackson Katz and Sut Jhally 76 *The Conservative Case for Gay Marriage by Andrew Sullivan 77 How the Entertainment Industry Degrades Women by Martha Burk and Kirsten Shaw 78 *Gender Warriors Fight the Wrong Battle by Laura Sessions Stepp 79 *Losing a Church, Keeping the Faith by Andrew Sullivan 80 Foul Play by Kathleen Sharp 81 Reincarnating Freud by Susana McCollom 82 Our Bodies, Their Selves by Katrine Ames 83 The Nature of the Beast by Anita Hill 84 Like a Smack in the Face: Pornography in the Trades by Barbara Trees 85 Bad Sports by Mariah Burton Nelson 86 A More Hidden Crime: Adolescent Battered Women by Nancy Worcester 87 *Why Doesn't She Just Leave? by Clarethia Ellerbee 88 Rape and Sexual Assault by James A. Doyle 89 Fraternities of Fear by Kathleen Hirsch 90 "The Rape" of Mr. Smith by Unknown 91 Forbidden Fruit by Anne Finger 92 *Certain Words Can Trip Up AIDS Grants, Scientists Say by Erica Goode 93 Mothers of Convention by Lindsy Van Gelder 94 What's Fair in Love and War by Randy Shilts Part VII Power and Classism 95 Imagine a Country by Holly Sklar 96 The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison by Jeffrey H. Reiman 97 The Great Divide by David Moberg 98 Unprotected Work by Christopher D. Cook 99 Normalizing Poverty by Celine-Marie Pascale 100 Institutionalized Discrimination by Robert Cherry 101 Jury Whops Insurer by Lesley Brown 102 Single Mothers and Welfare by Ellen L. Bassuk, Angela Browne, and John C. Buckner 103 The Gestapo of Welfare Reform by Lucky Jean 104 Persistent Welfare Stereotypes by Renu Nahata 105 A Way Out by Rita Henley Jensen 106 The Root Causes of Homelessness in American Cities by Doug A. Timmer, D. Stanley Eitzen, and Kathryn D. Talley 107 Sidewalk Mercenaries vs. Homeless by Christian Parenti CHANGE Part VIII: Taking Action 108 *Affirmative Action: The Sequel by Orlando Patterson 109 Diversity and Its Discontents by Arturo Madrid 110 Choosing Disability by Laura Hershey 111 *Breakfast at Perkins by Derek Schork 112 The Push for Power by Eloise Salholz 113 Going Public with our Vision by Charlotte Bunch 114 A Manifesto for Men by Andrew Kimbrell 115 *Lesbian Teen Sues District for Bias by Peter Y. Hong 116 The Campus Environment for Gay and Lesbian Life by John D'Emillio 117 Resistance to Change by Kathleen Ryan 118 The Campus Climate for Gay Students by Robert A. Rhoads 119 Psychologists Find Ways to Break Racism's Hold by Daniel Goleman 120 Battered Women by Cynthia Diehm and Margo Ross 121 Freedom for the Thought We Hate by Gerald Gunther 122 Acknowledging the Victims' Cry by Charles R. Lawrence III Part IX: Change Makers 123 Victory at Arnot by Mary Harris "Mother" Jones 124 The Organizer's Tale by Cesar Chavez 125 Workers Demand Rights by Louise Palmer 126 Free at Last by Southern Poverty Law Center 127 The Movement by Anne Moody 128 Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Muriel Tillinghast 129 "Don't Tell Us It Can't Be Done" by Michael Ryan 130 Saving Native Lands by Valerie Taliman 131 Ceclia Fire Thunder: She Inspires Her People by Ann Davis 132 How I Changed the Governor's Mind by Renee La Couture Tulloch 133 Friends of Justice: Take Heart by Deb Price 134 Negotiating Passion on Campus by Bonnie Pfister 135 A Daughter's Story by Dawn Atkins 136 A Mother's Story by Mary E. Atkins Part X: Race, Class, and Gender After 9/11 137 *Flag Raising at Ground Zero by The Iowa State Daily 138 *Immigrant Families Condemn Racial Targeting by Tram Nguyen 139 *America's Challenge: Domestic Security, Civil Liberties, and National Unity after September 11 by Muzaffar A. Chishti, Doris Meissner, Demetrios G. Papademetriou, Jay Peterzell, Michael J. Wishnie, and Stephen W. Yale-Loehr 140 *Feminist Perspectives on 9/11 by J. Ann Tickner 141 *Seeing Islam as "Evil" Faith, Evangelicals Seek Converts by Laurie Goodstein 142 *"Empty Seats in the Lifeboat": 9/11 Stalls Refugees by Donovan Slack 143 *Working Class Women as War Heroes by Farai Chideya