Karen E Rosenblum, Toni-Michelle C Travis

The Meaning of Difference: American Constructions of Race and Ethnicity, Sex and Gender, Social Class, Sexuality, and Disability

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Produktbeschreibung

How do categories of people come to be seen as "different"? How does being "different" affect people's lives? What does difference mean at the level of the individual, social institutions, or society? What difference does "difference" make? The Meaning of Difference offers a conceptual structure and up-to-date readings on the differences distinctive to American life-differences of race and ethnicity, sex and gender, social class, sexuality, and disability.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McGraw Hill LLC
• 7th Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 279mm x 216mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780078027024
• ISBN-10: 0078027020
• Artikelnr.: 42477736

Autorenporträt

Karen E. Rosenblum is Associate Professor of Sociology and Vice President for University Life at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. She is a former Director of Women's Studies and the Women's Studies Research and Resource Center and a faculty member in Cultural Studies. Professor Rosenblum received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her areas of research and teaching include sex and gender, language, and deviance.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
SECTION I-CONSTRUCTING CATEGORIES OF DIFFERENCE
Framework Essay
WHAT IS RACE? WHAT IS ETHNICITY?
1. "Race" and the Construction of Human Identity, Audrey Smedley
2. Who Is Black? One Nation's Definition, F. James Davis
3. The Evolution of Identity, The Washington Post
Personal Account: A Loaded Vacation, Niah Grimes
4. Real Indians: Identity and the Survival of Native America, Eva Marie
Garroutte
5. An Interlocking Panethnicity: The Negotiation of Multiple Identities
among Asian American Social Movement Leaders, Dana Y. Nakano
Personal Account: I Thought My Race Was Invisible, Sherri H. Pereira
6. Latino Racial Choices: The Effects of Skin Colour and Discrimination on
Latinos' and Latinas' Racial Self-Identifications, Tanya Golash-Boza and
William Darity, Jr.
7. Whiteness as an 'Unmarked' Cultural Category, Ruth Frankenberg
8. Plus Ça Change . . . ? Multiraciality and the Dynamics of Race Relations
in the United States, Frank D. Bean and Jennifer Lee
Personal Account: The Price of Nonconformity, Julia Morgenstern
Personal Account: Basketball, Andrea M. Busch
WHAT IS SEX? WHAT IS GENDER?
9. The Olympic Struggle over Sex, Alice Dreger
10.All Together Now: Intersex Infants and IGM, Riki Wilchins
11.Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create
Difference, Cordelia Fine
WHAT IS SOCIAL CLASS?
12. What's Class Got to Do with It?, Michael Zweig
13.The Silver Spoon: Inheritance and the Staggered Start, Stephen J.
McNamee and Robert K. Miller Jr.
Personal Account: I Am a Pakistani Woman, Hoorie I. Siddique
14.The Great Divergence: America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We
Can Do about It, Timothy Noah
WHAT IS SEXUALITY?
15.Sexual Fluidity: Understanding Women's Love and Desire, Lisa M. Diamond
16.The Biology of the Homosexual, Roger N. Lancaster
17.The Heterosexual Questionnaire, Martin Rochlin
WHAT IS DISABILITY?
18. Disability Definitions: The Politics of Meaning, Michael Oliver
Personal Account: Invisibly Disabled, Heather L. Shaw
19.What Wounds Enable: The Politics of Disability and Violence in Chicago,
Laurence Ralph
20.Ethnicity, Ethics, and the Deaf-World, Harlan Lane
SECTION II-EXPERIENCING DIFFERENCE
Framework Essay
RACE AND ETHNICITY
21. Formulating Identity in a Globalized World, Carola Suárez-Orozco
Personal Account: Hair, Sarah Faragalla
Personal Account: The Americanization of a Reluctant Vietnamese-American,
Hoai Huong Tran
22. Latinos in the U.S. Race Structure, Clara E. Rodríguez
23. Everybody's Ethnic Enigma, Jelita McLeod
Personal Account: My Strategies, Eric Jackson
24. From Friendly Foreigner to Enemy Race, John Tehranian
Personal Account: Master Status: Pride and Danger, Sumaya Al-Hajebi
SEX AND GENDER
25.The Privilege of Teaching about Privilege, Michael A. Messner
26.Proving Manhood, Timothy Beneke
Personal Account: Just Something You Did as a Man, Francisco Hernandez
27."I'm Not a Feminist, But . . .": Popular Myths about Feminism, Penny A.
Weiss
SEXUALITY
28. "Dude, You're a Fag": Adolescent Male Homophobia, C. J. Pascoe
29. Gendered Sexuality in Young Adulthood: Double Binds and Flawed Options,
Laura Hamilton and Elizabeth Armstrong
Personal Account: Living Invisibly, Tara S. Ellison
30. Sexual Orientation and Sex in Women's Lives: Conceptual and
Methodological Issues, Esther D. Rothblum
SOCIAL CLASS
31. Cause of Death: Inequality, Alejandro Reuss
32. Why Are Droves of Unqualified, Unprepared Kids Getting into Our Top
Colleges? Because Their Dads Are Alumni, John Larew
Personal Account: That Moment of Visibility, Rose B. Pascarell
33. The Myth of the "Culture of Poverty", Paul Gorski
DISABILITY
34. Public Transit, John Hockenberry
35. "Can You See the Rainbow?"' The Roots of Denial, Sally French
36. Not Blind Enough: Living in the Borderland Called Legal Blindness,
Beth Omansky
Personal Account: A Time I Didn't Feel Normal, Heather Callender
SECTION III-THE MEANING OF DIFFERENCE
Framework Essay
RACE AND ETHNICITY
37. Fourteen Key Supreme Court Cases and the Civil War Amendments
38.Blink in Black and White, Malcolm Gladwell
Personal Account: Just Like My Mama Said, Anthony McNeill
39.Safe Haven in America? Thirty Years after the Refugee Act of 1980,
David W. Haines
40.Hispanics Are Forgotten in Civil Rights History, Nicholas Dauphine
41.Balancing Identities: Undocumented Immigrant Asian American Students and
the Model Minority Myth, Tracy Poon Tambascia, Jonathan Wang, Breanne
Tcheng, and Viet T. Bui
Personal Account: Let Me Work for It!, Isabelle Nguyen
42.Segregated Housing, Segregated Schools, Richard Rothstein
SEX AND GENDER
43.Many Faces of Gender Inequality, Amartya Sen
Personal Account: He Hit Her, Tim Norton
44.The Not-So-Pink Ivory Tower, Ann Mullen
45.The Gender Revolution: Uneven and Stalled, Paula England
SEXUALITY
46.Sex Education and the Promotion of Heteronormativity, Tanya McNeill
Personal Account: Learning My Own Privilege, Mireille M. Cecil
47.Gaga Relations: The End of Marriage, J. Jack Halberstam
48.Queers without Money: They Are Everywhere. But We Refuse to See Them,
Amber Hollibaugh
SOCIAL CLASS
49.Rethinking American Poverty, Mark R. Rank
50.Tearing Down the Gates: Confronting the Class Divide in American
Education, Peter Sacks
51.Wealth Stripping: Why It Costs So Much to Be Poor, James H. Carr
DISABILITY
52.Disability Trouble, Bradley A. Areheart
53.Learning Disabilities: The Social Construction of a Special Education
Category, Christine E. Sleeter
54.(Re)Creating a World in Seven Days: Place, Disability, and Salvation in
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Emily Askew
SECTION IV-BRIDGING DIFFERENCES
Framework Essay
55.Adolescent Masculinity in an Age of Decreased Homohysteria, Eric
Anderson
56.What Can We Do? Becoming Part of the Solution, Allan G. Johnson
Personal Account: Parents' Underestimated Love, Octavio N. Espinal
57.In Defense of Rich Kids, William Upski Wimsatt
Personal Account: Where Are You From?, C.C.
58.Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice, Paul
Kivel
Credits
Index