The social construction of difference and inequality : race, class, gender, and sexuality / Tracy E. Ore.

Contents

Part I: Constructing Differences Examining what categories are constructed, how this is done, and why such categories of difference are constructed. Race & Ethnicity
1. Racial Formations- Michael Omi and Howard Winant
2. Optional Ethnicities: For Whites Only?- Mary C. Waters
3. "They Are Absolutely Obsessed with Us": Anti-Arab Bias in American Discourse and Policy- Hussein Ibish
4. How Jews Became White Folks and What that Says about Race in America- Karen Brodkin

Social Class
5. Race, Wealth, and Equality- Melvin L. Oliver and Thomas M. Shapiro
6. Media Magic: Making Class Invisible- Gregory Mantsios
7. Doubly Divided: The Racial Wealth Gap- Meizhu Lui
8. Getting Corporations off the Public Dole- Janice Shields Sex & Gender
9. The Social Construction of Gender- Judith Lorber
10. The Five Sexes, Revisited- Anne Fausto-Sterling
11. The Transgender Paradigm Shift toward Free Expression- Holly Boswell
12. Masculinity as Homophobia: Fear, Shame, and Silence in the Construction of Gender Identity- Michael S. Kimmel

Sexuality
13. The Invention of Heterosexuality- Jonathan Ned Katz
14. The Social Construction of Sexuality- Ruth Hubbard
15. Sexual Identity and Bisexual Identities: The Struggle for Self-Description in a Changing Sexual Landscape- Paula C. Rust
16. Naming All the Parts- Kate Bornstein
Part II: Maintaining Inequalities: Systems of Oppression & Privilege
Examining what elements of social structure work to maintain systems of stratification based on constructions of difference.
Social Institutions Family
17. Our Mothers’ Grief: Racial Ethnic Women and the Maintenance of Families- Bonnie Thornton Dill
18. Families on the Fault Line: America’s Working Class Speaks About the Family, the Economy, Race, and Ethnicity- Lillian B. Rubin
19. Stability and Change in Chicano Men’s Family Lives- Scott Coltrane
20. Gay and Lesbian Families Are Here- Judith Stacey Education
21. Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools- Jonathan Kozol
22. Preparing for Power: Cultural Capital and Curricula in America’s Elite Boarding Schools- Peter W. Cookson, Jr and Caroline Hodges Persell
23. Civilize Them with a Stick- Mary Crow Dog and Richard Erdoes
24. Missing in Interaction- Myra Sadker and David Sadker Work & the Economy 25. Jobless Ghettos: The Social Implications of the Disappearance of Work in Segregated Neighborhoods- William J. Wilson
26. "We’d Love to Hire Them But?": The Meaning of Race for Employers- Joleen Kirschenman and Kathryn M. Neckerman
27. The Glass Escalator: Hidden Advantages for Men in the ‘Female’ Professions- Christine L. Williams
28. Cause of Death: Inequality- Alejandro Reuss The State & Public Policy
29. Violating Women: Rights Abuses in the Welfare Police State- Gwendolyn Mink
30. A Half Century of Class and Gender in American Television Domestic Sitcoms- Richard Butsch
31. The Effects of Affirmative Action on Other Stakeholders- Barbara Reskin
32. The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: Racialized Social Democracy and the “White” Problem in American Studies- George Lipsitz Media
33. A Half Century of Class and Gender in American TV Domestic Sitcoms- Richard Butsch
34. Distorted Reality: Hispanic Characters in TV Entertainment- Robert 35. Changing Gay and Lesbian Images in the Media- Peter Nardi
36. The “F” Word: How the Media Frame Feminism- Debra Baker Beck Language & Culture
37. Racism in the English Language- Robert B. Moore
38. Self, Identity & the Naming Question: Reflections on the Language of Disability- Irving Kenneth Zola
39. How to Tame a Wild Tongue- Gloria Anzaldúa
40. The Dark Side of Sports Symbols- Stanley D. Eitzen and Maxine Baca Zinn Violence & Social Control
41. Where Race and Gender Meet: Racism, Hate Crimes, and Pornography- Helen Zia
42. Fraternities and Collegiate Rape Culture: Why are Some Fraternities More Dangerous Places for Women?- A. Ayres Boswell & Joan Z. Spade
43. The Construction of Masculinity and the Triad of Men’s Violence- Michael Kaufman 44. Homophobia as a Weapon of Sexism- Suzanne Pharr
Part III: Experiencing Difference & Inequality in Everyday Life
Examining the impact of constructions of difference and maintaining inequalities on members of society.
45. Making Systems of Privilege Visible- Stephanie M. Wildman with Adrienne D. Davis.
46. “Yes, I Follow Islam, But I’m Not a Terrorist”- Nada El Sawy
47. A Dozen Demons- Ellis Cose
48. The Story of My Body- Judith Ortiz Cofer
49. "Gee, You Don’t Seem Like An Indian From the Reservation"- Barbara Cameron
50. On Being Blackanese- Mitzi Uehara-Carter
51. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America- Barbara Ehrenreich
52. I Am Your Welfare Reform- Annie Downey
53. Learning to Fight- Geoffrey Canada *
54. “Why People Think I’m a Boy”- Naomi
55. Bisexuality, Feminism, Men, and Me- Robyn Ochs
Part IV: Resistance & Social Change Examining how people working within individual and institutional contexts transform difference from a system of inequality to a system of liberation.
56. Toward a New Vision: Race, Class, and Gender as Categories of Analysis and Connection- Patricia Hill Collins
57. Cultural Resistance: Reconstructing Our Own Images- Yen Le Espritu
58. Borders and Bridges: Building New Directions for the Women’s Movement- Janet L. Finn
59. Seeing More Than Black & White: Latinos, Racism, and the Cultural Divides- Elizabeth Martinez
60. Dismantling Noah’s Ark: Gender and Equality- Judith Lorber
61. Fighting

Includes bibliographical references.