Rethinking the Color Line

* indicates a new reading Preface About the Contributors Introduction: Rethinking the Color Line: Understanding How Boundaries Shift Part I: Sorting by Color: Why We Attach Meaning to Race Race and Ethnicity: Sociohistoric Constructions and! 1. How Our Skins Got Their Color, Marvin Harris 2. Drawing the Color Line, Howard Zinn 3. Racial Formations, Michael Omi and Howard Winant 4. Theoretical Perspectives in Race and Ethnic Relations, Joe R. Feagin and Clairece Booher Feagin 5. Racialized Social System Approach to Racism, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva !Contemporary Socioeconomic Trends 6. An Overview of Trends in Social and Economic Well-Being, by Race, Rebecca M. Blank *7. The Color of Health in the United States, David R. Williams and Chiquita Collins *8. Transformative Assets, the Racial Wealth Gap and the American Dream, Thomas M. Shapiro Race as Chameleon: How the Idea of Race Changes Over Time and Place 9. Placing Race in Context, Clara E. Rodriguez and Hector Cordero-Guzman 10. A Tour of Indian People and Indian Lands, David E. Wilkins 11. Asian American Panethnicity: Bridging Institutions and Identities, Yen Le Espiritu *12. Beyond Black and White: Remaking Race in America, Jennifer Lee and Frank D. Bean Colorblind America: Fact, Fantasy or Our Future? 13. Color Blind Privilege: The Social and Political Functions of Erasing the Color Line in Post-Race America, Charles A. Gallagher *14. The Ideology of Colorblindness, Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres 15. The Possibility of a New Racial Hierarchy in the Twenty-First-Century United States, Herbert J. Gans Part II: Prejudice, Discrimination and Racism Understanding Racism 16. Race Prejudice as a Sense of Group Position, Herbert Blumer 17. Discrimination and the American Creed, Robert K. Merton *18. Race and Civil Rights Pre-September 11, 2001: The Targeting of Arabs and Muslims, Susan M. Akram and Kevin R. Johnson 19. The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: Racialized Social Democracy, George Lipsitz 20. The Continuing Significance of Race: Antiblack Discrimination in Public Places, Joe R. Feagin How Space Gets Raced 21. Residential Segregation and Neighborhood Conditions in U.S. Metropolitan Areas, Douglas S. Massey 22. The Code of the Streets, Elijah Anderson 23. Environmental Justice in the 21st Century: Race Still Matters, Robert D. Bullard 24. Savage Inequalities, Jonathan Kozol *25. Why Are There No Supermarkets in My Neighborhood?: The Long Search for Fresh Fruit, Produce and Healthy Food, Shannon N. Zenk (et.al) Part III: Racialized Opportunity in Social Institutions Race and Criminal Justice: Oxymoron or an American Tragedy 26. No Equal Justice: The Color of Punishment, David Cole 27. Race and Criminalization: Black Americans and the Punishment Industry, Angela Y. Davis 28. .!And the Poor Get Prison, Jeffrey Reiman *29. The Mark of a Criminal Record, Devah Pager How Race Shapes the Workplace *30. Kristin v. Aisha; Brad v. Rasheed: What's in a Name and How It Affects Getting a Job, Amy Braverman 31. When the Melting Pot Boils Over: The Irish, Jews, Blacks and Koreans of New York, Roger Waldinger 32. "There's No Shame in My Game": Status and Stigma Among Harlem's Working Poor, Katherine S. Newman and Catherine Ellis *33. Sweatshops in Sunset Park: A Variation of Late Twentieth-Century Chinese Garment Shops in New York City, Xiaolan Bao *34. Hispanics in the American South and the Transformation of the Poultry Industry, William Kandel and Emilio A. Parrado Race, Representations and the Media--Drug Dealers, Maids and Mammies: The Role of Stereotypes in the Media *35. Broadcast News Portrayal of Minorities: Accuracy in Reporting, Roger D. Klein and Stacy Naccarato 36. Television and the Politics of Representation, Justin Lewis and Sut Jhally 37. Distorted Reality: Hispanic Characters in TV Entertainment, S. Robert Lichter and Daniel R. Amundson Crazy Horse Malt Liquor and Athletes: The Tenacity of Stereotypes *38. Winnebagos, Cherokees, Apaches, and Dakotas: The Persistence of Stereotyping of American Indians in American Advertising Brands, Debra Merskin 39. Sport in America: The New Racial Stereotypes, Richard E. Lapchick Part IV: How America's Complexion Changes Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration *40. The Melting Pot and the Color Line, Stephen Steinberg 41. The Changing Face of America: Immigration, Race/Ethnicity, and Social Mobility, Min Zhou 42. The Arab Immigrant Experience, Michael W. Suleiman 43. Ethnic and Racial Identities of Second-Generation Black Immigrants in New York City, Mary C. Waters Race and Romance: Blurring Boundaries *44. Captain Kirk Kisses Lieutenant Uhura: Interracial Intimacies--The View From Hollywood, Randall Kennedy 45. Discovering Racial Borders, Heather M. Dalmage 46. The Changing Face of America: Intermarriage and the Mixed Race Movement, Frank Wu 47. Ten Truths of Interracial Marriage, Maria Root Living With Less Racism: Strategies for Individual Action 48. Ten Simple Things You Can Do To Improve Race Relations, Charles A. Gallagher Appendix