Understanding Diversity
Published on 18. February 2014
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320 pages
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Helps Students Relate Concepts of Diversity to their own Lives
Understanding Diversity, 1/e by Claire M. Renzetti and Raquel M. Kennedy-Bergen is composed of original contributions written by both well-known sociologists as well as newer voices whose cutting edge work is likely to significantly impact the field. Readers will find it easy to relate to this title, as every topic has been chosen based on its relevancy to college students. Students will emerge with an understanding of how the intersecting inequalities of race, gender, social class, sexuality, age, immigration status, and geographic location influence how various problems are socially and politically framed, and how they are differentially experienced.
Understanding Diversity, 1/e by Claire M. Renzetti and Raquel M. Kennedy-Bergen is composed of original contributions written by both well-known sociologists as well as newer voices whose cutting edge work is likely to significantly impact the field. Readers will find it easy to relate to this title, as every topic has been chosen based on its relevancy to college students. Students will emerge with an understanding of how the intersecting inequalities of race, gender, social class, sexuality, age, immigration status, and geographic location influence how various problems are socially and politically framed, and how they are differentially experienced.
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Claire M. Renzetti is the Judi Conway Patton Endowed Chair for Studies of Violence Against Women in the Center for Research on Violence Against Women, and Professor and Chair of the Sociology Department at the University of Kentucky. She is editor of the international, interdisciplinary journal, Violence Against Women; co-editor with Jeffrey Edleson of the Interpersonal Violence book series for Oxford University Press; and editor of the Gender and Justice book series for University of California Press. She has authored or edited 16 books as well as numerous book chapters and articles in professional journals. Her current research includes studies of the relationship between religiosity and intimate partner violence, and an evaluation of a horticultural therapy program at a shelter for battered women and their children. Dr. Renzetti has held elected and appointed positions on the governing bodies of several national professional organizations, and is a past president of the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP). She is the recipient of the Saltzman Award for Contributions to Practice, awarded by the Women and Crime Division of the American Society of Criminology, and the the Lee Founders Award, from the SSSP.
Raquel Kennedy Bergen is of Sociology at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She received her BS from Saint Joseph's University in Sociology and her Ph.D in Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author or co-author of numerous scholarly publications and six books on violence against women including, Wife Rape: Understanding the Response of Survivors and Service Providers; and Issues in Intimate Violence. With Claire Renzetti and Jeff Edleson she edited, Sourcebook on Violence Against Women and Violence Against Women: Classic Statements. She co-edited Violence Against Women: Readings from Social Problems with Claire Renzetti. She has served as a member of the Pennsylvania State Ethics Commission since 2004 when she was appointed by Governor Edward G. Rendell. She has volunteered as an advocate for battered women and sexual assault survivors for the past 25 years. Her current research continues in the field of violence against women-analyzing how domestic violence and sexual assault programs have implemented changes to the services that they provide intimate partner sexual assault survivors. She also continues to explore the subject of women's experiences of sexual and physical violence during pregnancy.
Raquel Kennedy Bergen is of Sociology at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She received her BS from Saint Joseph's University in Sociology and her Ph.D in Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author or co-author of numerous scholarly publications and six books on violence against women including, Wife Rape: Understanding the Response of Survivors and Service Providers; and Issues in Intimate Violence. With Claire Renzetti and Jeff Edleson she edited, Sourcebook on Violence Against Women and Violence Against Women: Classic Statements. She co-edited Violence Against Women: Readings from Social Problems with Claire Renzetti. She has served as a member of the Pennsylvania State Ethics Commission since 2004 when she was appointed by Governor Edward G. Rendell. She has volunteered as an advocate for battered women and sexual assault survivors for the past 25 years. Her current research continues in the field of violence against women-analyzing how domestic violence and sexual assault programs have implemented changes to the services that they provide intimate partner sexual assault survivors. She also continues to explore the subject of women's experiences of sexual and physical violence during pregnancy.
Content
In This Section:
I) Brief Table of Contents
II) Detailed Table of Contents
I) Brief Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Understanding Diversity
SECTION I: WORK, HEALTH, AND WELL-BEING
Chapter 2. Economic Crisis and Its Effect on Hope, Trust, and Caring
Chapter 3. Inequalities in Health And Well-Being in The United States
Chapter 4. Women's Homelessness and the Role of Violence
Chapter 5. Night and Day
SECTION II: CRIME, DEVIANCE, AND JUSTICE
Chapter 6. The Hidden Nightmare
Chapter 7. Black Girls, Gender, and Violence
Chapter 8. Race, Ethnicity and Living Arrangements of
Children of Incarcerated Mothers
Chapter 9. Cinderella, Wilma Flintstone, and Xena
The Warrior Princess
SECTION III: EDUCATION, INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS, AND THE MEDIA
Chapter 10. Immigration And Education
Chapter 11. Everyday Racial Interactions for Whites and College Students of College
Chapter 12. The College Hookup Culture
Chapter 13. What Does Mainstream Media Tell us About Whites' Racial Behavior?
Chapter 14. Patriarchy.com
Section IV. COMMUNITIES AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Chapter 15. Growing Up in Poor Neighborhoods
Chapter 16. Not Just Buying A Home
Chapter 17. Food Insecurity in United States
Chapter 18. "Sacrificed So Others Can Life Conveniently"
II) Detailed Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Understanding Diversity
An Introduction
Raquel Kennedy Bergen & Claire M. Renzetti
Personal Troubles and Public Issues
Conceptualizing Difference
Celebrating Difference, Challenging Inequality
SECTION I: WORK, HEALTH, AND WELL-BEING
Chapter 2. Economic Crisis and Its Effect on Hope, Trust, and Caring
Carolyn Cummings Perrucci & Robert Perrucci
Chronic Job Loss and Wage Stagnation
Financial Meltdown 2008
Impact on Racial and Ethnic Groups
Government Complicity in Job Loss and Financial Meltdown
Class Polarization and Declining Opportunity
Exploring the Link Between Economic Crisis and Hope, Trust, and Caring
Chapter 3. Inequalities in Health And Well-Being in The United States
Gendered Racism and the Experiences of Black Women
Brea L. Perry, Erin Pullen, & Carrie B. Oser
Introduction: An Overview of Racial Health Disparities in the United States
Intersecting Social Statuses: Black Women and Gendered Racism
The Role of Gendered Racism in Health
Findings from the B-WISE Project
How Common are Sexism and Racism Among Low Socioeconomic Status Black
Women?
How does Gendered Racism Affect Health and Well-Being?
Implications for Diversity and Health
Chapter 4. Women's Homelessness and the Role
of Violence
Not Just a Personal Problem
Jennifer K. Wesely
Childhood Experiences and Early Independence
Childhood Victimization
Childhood Messages and Heightened Risks
Lack of Protection and Social Indifference
Early Independence
Increased Vulnerabilities and Survival Strategies
Violence, Adult Homelessness, and Resisting the Cycle
Normalized Violence and Family Ideals
Adult Intimate Partner Relationships and Their Effects
Resistance
Chapter 5. Night and Day
Gendered Violence and Intersectionality in the Everyday Experiences of Transgender Men
Miriam J. Abelson
Leo's Story
Michael's Story
Drew's Story
Transphobic Violence
SECTION II: CRIME, DEVIANCE, AND JUSTICE
Chapter 6. The Hidden Nightmare
Everyday Sexual Assault of Black Women during Legal Segregation
Ruth Thompson-Miller & Joe R. Feagin
The Data
Frontstage: Rape Talk
Frontstage: Rape and Subsequent Injustices
Frontstage: The Vulnerability of Learning the Performance
Frontstage: Luring Little Black Girls with Promises of Money
Frontstage: Two Traumatized Little Girls
Frontstage: Dangerous Work-Black Women Working in White Homes
Frontstage: Wreckless Eyeballing Equals Look Rape
Frontstage: Shame
Backstage: Kitchen Babies
Chapter 7. Black Girls, Gender, and Violence
Nikki Jones & Alexis Mccurn
Race, Gender, and Inner-city Violence
Between Good and Ghetto: Black Girls, Gender, and Violence
"It Happens All the Time": Ghetto Girls and Micro-Interactional Assaults
Black Girls on Ghetto Streets
Situated Survival Strategies
Chapter 8. Race, Ethnicity and Living Arrangements of
Children of Incarcerated Mothers
Comparative Patterns and Maternal Experience
Holly Foster & Jocelyn Lewis
Mass Imprisonment
Race, Ethnicity and Gender
Women and Prison
Parents
Intergenerational Effects of Parental Incarceration
Living Arrangements
Data
Methods
Findings
Women's Feelings about Children's Living Arrangements
Chapter 9. Cinderella, Wilma Flintstone, and Xena
The Warrior Princess
Capturing Diversity among Transgender Women in Men's Prisons
Valerie Jenness, Jennifer Sumner, Lori Sexton, & Nikkas Alamillo-Luchese
Data on Transgender Prisoners in California
Capturing Diversity of Transgender Prisoners in Men's Prisons: Demography,
Health and Welfare, and Self and Identities
Commonality and Difference: A Transgender Life in Prison
SECTION III: EDUCATION, INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS, AND THE MEDIA
Chapter 10. Immigration And Education
Complexities and Intersecting Factors with Schooling the Children of Immigrants
Jennifer M. Bondy & Anthony A. Peguero
Introduction
Generation and Assimilation
Immigrant Enclaves
The Climate of Immigration
Race, Ethnicity, and Region of Origin
English-language Proficiency
Family and Socioeconomic Status
Gender
Chapter 11. Everyday Racial Interactions for Whites and College Students of College
Leslie H. Picca
Journals by White College Students
Journals by College Students of Color
Chapter 12. The College Hookup Culture
Why Participation Varies
Kathleen Bogle
New Era on Campus
Research on Hooking up
My Study
Who is Hooking Up?
Who is Not Hooking Up
Chapter 13. What Does Mainstream Media Tell us About Whites' Racial Behavior?
Chavella T. Pittman
Racial Oppression
Mass Media and Race
Mass Media's Messages About White Racial Behavior
Potential Solutions?
Chapter 14. Patriarchy.com
Adult Internet Pornography and the Abuse of Women
Walter S. DeKeseredy
Introduction
What is Pornography?
The Pornography Industry
Pornography and Woman Abuse in Intimate Heterosexual Relationships
What is to be Done About Internet Pornography?
Section IV. COMMUNITIES AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Chapter 15. Growing Up in Poor Neighborhoods
Susan Clampet-Lundquist
Urban Space
Neighborhood Effects Research
Moving to Opportunity
Individuals and Neighborhoods
Teenagers and Neighborhoods: Four Tales
Chapter 16. Not Just Buying A Home
The Meaning of Home, Homeownership, and Neighborhood in Low-income
Communities
Anna Maria Santiago, Amy Restorick Roberts, & Eun-Lye Lee
Introduction
Literature Review
The Social Benefits of Homeownership for Low-income Households
The Context: Denver and the Denver Housing Authority's Homeownership
Program
The Meaning of Home for Low-income Homeowners
The Neighborhood Context of Low-income Homeownership
Low-income Homeowner Perceptions of their Neighborhoods
Low-income Homeowners and their Ties to the Neighborhood
The Civic Engagement of Low-income Homeowners
Chapter 17. Food Insecurity in United States
Who's Hungry?
Keiko Tanaka, Patrick H. Mooney, & Brett Wolff
Introduction
Household Food Insecurity in the United States
Four Dimensions of Food Security
Case Study: Lexington Community Food Assessment
Chapter 18. "Sacrificed So Others Can Life Conveniently"
Social Inequality, Environmental Injustice, and the Energy Sacrifice Zone of
Central Appalachia
Shannon Elizabeth Bell
Energy Sacrifice Zones and Patterns of Environmental Injustice
The Environmental and Social Costs of Coal Power
Living in an Energy Sacrifice Zone
I) Brief Table of Contents
II) Detailed Table of Contents
I) Brief Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Understanding Diversity
SECTION I: WORK, HEALTH, AND WELL-BEING
Chapter 2. Economic Crisis and Its Effect on Hope, Trust, and Caring
Chapter 3. Inequalities in Health And Well-Being in The United States
Chapter 4. Women's Homelessness and the Role of Violence
Chapter 5. Night and Day
SECTION II: CRIME, DEVIANCE, AND JUSTICE
Chapter 6. The Hidden Nightmare
Chapter 7. Black Girls, Gender, and Violence
Chapter 8. Race, Ethnicity and Living Arrangements of
Children of Incarcerated Mothers
Chapter 9. Cinderella, Wilma Flintstone, and Xena
The Warrior Princess
SECTION III: EDUCATION, INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS, AND THE MEDIA
Chapter 10. Immigration And Education
Chapter 11. Everyday Racial Interactions for Whites and College Students of College
Chapter 12. The College Hookup Culture
Chapter 13. What Does Mainstream Media Tell us About Whites' Racial Behavior?
Chapter 14. Patriarchy.com
Section IV. COMMUNITIES AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Chapter 15. Growing Up in Poor Neighborhoods
Chapter 16. Not Just Buying A Home
Chapter 17. Food Insecurity in United States
Chapter 18. "Sacrificed So Others Can Life Conveniently"
II) Detailed Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Understanding Diversity
An Introduction
Raquel Kennedy Bergen & Claire M. Renzetti
Personal Troubles and Public Issues
Conceptualizing Difference
Celebrating Difference, Challenging Inequality
SECTION I: WORK, HEALTH, AND WELL-BEING
Chapter 2. Economic Crisis and Its Effect on Hope, Trust, and Caring
Carolyn Cummings Perrucci & Robert Perrucci
Chronic Job Loss and Wage Stagnation
Financial Meltdown 2008
Impact on Racial and Ethnic Groups
Government Complicity in Job Loss and Financial Meltdown
Class Polarization and Declining Opportunity
Exploring the Link Between Economic Crisis and Hope, Trust, and Caring
Chapter 3. Inequalities in Health And Well-Being in The United States
Gendered Racism and the Experiences of Black Women
Brea L. Perry, Erin Pullen, & Carrie B. Oser
Introduction: An Overview of Racial Health Disparities in the United States
Intersecting Social Statuses: Black Women and Gendered Racism
The Role of Gendered Racism in Health
Findings from the B-WISE Project
How Common are Sexism and Racism Among Low Socioeconomic Status Black
Women?
How does Gendered Racism Affect Health and Well-Being?
Implications for Diversity and Health
Chapter 4. Women's Homelessness and the Role
of Violence
Not Just a Personal Problem
Jennifer K. Wesely
Childhood Experiences and Early Independence
Childhood Victimization
Childhood Messages and Heightened Risks
Lack of Protection and Social Indifference
Early Independence
Increased Vulnerabilities and Survival Strategies
Violence, Adult Homelessness, and Resisting the Cycle
Normalized Violence and Family Ideals
Adult Intimate Partner Relationships and Their Effects
Resistance
Chapter 5. Night and Day
Gendered Violence and Intersectionality in the Everyday Experiences of Transgender Men
Miriam J. Abelson
Leo's Story
Michael's Story
Drew's Story
Transphobic Violence
SECTION II: CRIME, DEVIANCE, AND JUSTICE
Chapter 6. The Hidden Nightmare
Everyday Sexual Assault of Black Women during Legal Segregation
Ruth Thompson-Miller & Joe R. Feagin
The Data
Frontstage: Rape Talk
Frontstage: Rape and Subsequent Injustices
Frontstage: The Vulnerability of Learning the Performance
Frontstage: Luring Little Black Girls with Promises of Money
Frontstage: Two Traumatized Little Girls
Frontstage: Dangerous Work-Black Women Working in White Homes
Frontstage: Wreckless Eyeballing Equals Look Rape
Frontstage: Shame
Backstage: Kitchen Babies
Chapter 7. Black Girls, Gender, and Violence
Nikki Jones & Alexis Mccurn
Race, Gender, and Inner-city Violence
Between Good and Ghetto: Black Girls, Gender, and Violence
"It Happens All the Time": Ghetto Girls and Micro-Interactional Assaults
Black Girls on Ghetto Streets
Situated Survival Strategies
Chapter 8. Race, Ethnicity and Living Arrangements of
Children of Incarcerated Mothers
Comparative Patterns and Maternal Experience
Holly Foster & Jocelyn Lewis
Mass Imprisonment
Race, Ethnicity and Gender
Women and Prison
Parents
Intergenerational Effects of Parental Incarceration
Living Arrangements
Data
Methods
Findings
Women's Feelings about Children's Living Arrangements
Chapter 9. Cinderella, Wilma Flintstone, and Xena
The Warrior Princess
Capturing Diversity among Transgender Women in Men's Prisons
Valerie Jenness, Jennifer Sumner, Lori Sexton, & Nikkas Alamillo-Luchese
Data on Transgender Prisoners in California
Capturing Diversity of Transgender Prisoners in Men's Prisons: Demography,
Health and Welfare, and Self and Identities
Commonality and Difference: A Transgender Life in Prison
SECTION III: EDUCATION, INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS, AND THE MEDIA
Chapter 10. Immigration And Education
Complexities and Intersecting Factors with Schooling the Children of Immigrants
Jennifer M. Bondy & Anthony A. Peguero
Introduction
Generation and Assimilation
Immigrant Enclaves
The Climate of Immigration
Race, Ethnicity, and Region of Origin
English-language Proficiency
Family and Socioeconomic Status
Gender
Chapter 11. Everyday Racial Interactions for Whites and College Students of College
Leslie H. Picca
Journals by White College Students
Journals by College Students of Color
Chapter 12. The College Hookup Culture
Why Participation Varies
Kathleen Bogle
New Era on Campus
Research on Hooking up
My Study
Who is Hooking Up?
Who is Not Hooking Up
Chapter 13. What Does Mainstream Media Tell us About Whites' Racial Behavior?
Chavella T. Pittman
Racial Oppression
Mass Media and Race
Mass Media's Messages About White Racial Behavior
Potential Solutions?
Chapter 14. Patriarchy.com
Adult Internet Pornography and the Abuse of Women
Walter S. DeKeseredy
Introduction
What is Pornography?
The Pornography Industry
Pornography and Woman Abuse in Intimate Heterosexual Relationships
What is to be Done About Internet Pornography?
Section IV. COMMUNITIES AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Chapter 15. Growing Up in Poor Neighborhoods
Susan Clampet-Lundquist
Urban Space
Neighborhood Effects Research
Moving to Opportunity
Individuals and Neighborhoods
Teenagers and Neighborhoods: Four Tales
Chapter 16. Not Just Buying A Home
The Meaning of Home, Homeownership, and Neighborhood in Low-income
Communities
Anna Maria Santiago, Amy Restorick Roberts, & Eun-Lye Lee
Introduction
Literature Review
The Social Benefits of Homeownership for Low-income Households
The Context: Denver and the Denver Housing Authority's Homeownership
Program
The Meaning of Home for Low-income Homeowners
The Neighborhood Context of Low-income Homeownership
Low-income Homeowner Perceptions of their Neighborhoods
Low-income Homeowners and their Ties to the Neighborhood
The Civic Engagement of Low-income Homeowners
Chapter 17. Food Insecurity in United States
Who's Hungry?
Keiko Tanaka, Patrick H. Mooney, & Brett Wolff
Introduction
Household Food Insecurity in the United States
Four Dimensions of Food Security
Case Study: Lexington Community Food Assessment
Chapter 18. "Sacrificed So Others Can Life Conveniently"
Social Inequality, Environmental Injustice, and the Energy Sacrifice Zone of
Central Appalachia
Shannon Elizabeth Bell
Energy Sacrifice Zones and Patterns of Environmental Injustice
The Environmental and Social Costs of Coal Power
Living in an Energy Sacrifice Zone