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| Introduction | 1 | |
| Pt. I | The Social Construction of Difference: Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality | 7 |
| 1 | Racial Formations | 13 |
| 2 | The Ethics of Living Jim Crow: An Autobiographical Sketch | 23 |
| 3 | Rethinking Women's Biology | 32 |
| 4 | The Social Construction of Gender | 33 |
| 5 | Ah, Ya Throw Like a Girl! | 46 |
| 6 | In a Male-Centered World, Female Differences Are Transformed into Female Disadvantages | 48 |
| 7 | The Social Construction of Sexuality | 52 |
| 8 | The Invention of Heterosexuality | 55 |
| 9 | Deconstructing the Underclass | 67 |
| 10 | Domination and Subordination | 73 |
| Suggestions for Further Reading | 79 | |
| Pt. II | "Us" and "Them": Becoming an American | 81 |
| 1 | Who Is an American? | 84 |
| 2 | "Is This a White Country, or What?" | 92 |
| 3 | How Jews Became White | 100 |
| 4 | Asian-American History Rises above Pitfalls for Trail of Success: Ups, Downs Compared to Plight of Blacks | 115 |
| 5 | Baiting Immigrants: Heartbreak for Latinos | 118 |
| 6 | The Border Patrol State | 121 |
| 7 | Five Myths about Immigration | 125 |
| Suggestions for Further Reading | 128 | |
| Pt. III | Understanding Racism, Sexism, and Class Privilege | 130 |
| 1 | The Problem: Discrimination | 135 |
| 2 | Oppression | 146 |
| 3 | Racism: Something about the Subject Makes It Hard to Name | 150 |
| 4 | Smells Like Racism | 154 |
| 5 | White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack | 165 |
| 6 | Racial Relations Becoming More Complex across Country | 170 |
| 7 | Death of a Teenager Widens a Racial Rift between Two Towns | 175 |
| 8 | Gang Rape | 183 |
| Suggestions for Further Reading | 187 | |
| Pt. IV | The Economics of Race, Class, and Gender in the United States | 188 |
| 1 | Imagine a Country | 192 |
| 2 | Class in America: Myths and Realities | 202 |
| 3 | Who Killed the Middle Class? | 215 |
| 4 | Family Struggles to Make Do after Fall from Middle Class | 220 |
| 5 | Middle-Class Blacks Try to Grip a Ladder While Lending a Hand | 225 |
| 6 | Persistent Racial Segregation Mars Suburbs' Green Dream | 228 |
| 7 | The Wage Gap: Myths and Facts | 234 |
| 8 | How Workplaces May Look without Affirmative Action | 238 |
| 9 | Women Face Glass Walls as Well as Ceilings | 241 |
| 10 | Welfare: Exploding the Stereotypes | 242 |
| 11 | What Scholars Can Tell Politicians about the Poor | 249 |
| Suggestions for Further Reading | 253 | |
| Pt. V | Many Voices, Many Lives: Some Consequences of Racial, Gender, and Class Inequality | 255 |
| 1 | Racial and Ethnic Minorities: An Overview | 258 |
| 2 | On Being South Asian in North America | 270 |
| 3 | Then Came the War | 277 |
| 4 | An Ethnic Trump | 284 |
| 5 | TV Arabs | 286 |
| 6 | The Circuit | 288 |
| 7 | The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria | 292 |
| 8 | Aria: A Bilingual Childhood | 297 |
| 9 | Arturo | 306 |
| 10 | Suicide Note | 308 |
| 11 | Pursuit of Happiness | 310 |
| 12 | Black Hispanics: The Ties That Bind | 312 |
| 13 | Blacks and Hispanics: A Fragile Alliance | 315 |
| 14 | What I Learned about Jews | 319 |
| 15 | Pigskin, Patriarchy, and Pain | 325 |
| 16 | He Defies You Still: The Memoirs of a Sissy | 328 |
| 17 | With No Immediate Cause | 334 |
| 18 | When Street Harassment Gets Nasty | 336 |
| 19 | The Triangular Tube of Pink Lipstick | 338 |
| 20 | "We Are Who You Are": Feminism and Disability | 339 |
| 21 | The Case of Sharon Kowalski and Karen Thompson: Ableism, Heterosexism, and Sexism | 346 |
| 22 | Requiem for the Champ | 356 |
| 23 | C. P. Ellis | 359 |
| Suggestions for Further Reading | 368 | |
| Pt. VI | How it Happened: Race and Gender Issues in U.S. Law | 370 |
| 1 | Indian Tribes: A Continuing Quest for Survival | 378 |
| 2 | An Act for the Better Ordering and Governing of Negroes and Slaves, South Carolina, 1712 | 383 |
| 3 | The "Three-Fifths Compromise": The U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 2 | 388 |
| 4 | An Act Prohibiting the Teaching of Slaves to Read | 389 |
| 5 | Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, Seneca Falls Convention, 1848 | 390 |
| 6 | The Antisuffragists: Selected Papers, 1852-1887 | 394 |
| 7 | People v. Hall, 1854 | 399 |
| 8 | Dred Scott v. Sandford, 1856 | 401 |
| 9 | The Emancipation Proclamation | 405 |
| 10 | United States Constitution: Thirteenth (1865), Fourteenth (1868), and Fifteenth (1870) Amendments | 407 |
| 11 | The Black Codes | 408 |
| 12 | Bradwell v. Illinois, 1873 | 416 |
| 13 | Minor v. Happersett, 1874 | 418 |
| 14 | California Constitution, 1876 | 419 |
| 15 | Elk v. Wilkins, 1884 | 420 |
| 16 | Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896 | 421 |
| 17 | United States Constitution: Nineteenth Amendment (1920) | 424 |
| 18 | Korematsu v. United States, 1944 | 425 |
| 19 | Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 1954 | 429 |
| 20 | Roe v. Wade, 1973 | 434 |
| 21 | The Equal Rights Amendment (Defeated) | 434 |
| 22 | Bowers v. Hardwick, 1986 | 435 |
| 23 | Confronting Obstacles to Lesbian and Gay Equality | 437 |
| Suggestions for Further Reading | 446 | |
| Pt. VII | Creating and Maintaining Hierarchies: Stereotypes, Ideology, Language, Violence, and Social Control | 448 |
| 1 | Self-Fulfilling Stereotypes | 452 |
| 2 | Anti-Gay Stereotypes | 458 |
| 3 | Racism in the English Language | 465 |
| 4 | Sex and Race: The Analogy of Social Control | 475 |
| 5 | Am I Thin Enough Yet? | 489 |
| 6 | Pulling Train | 497 |
| 7 | Failing at Faimess: How America's Schools Cheat Girls | 503 |
| 8 | Tracking | 509 |
| 9 | Media Magic: Making Class Invisible | 510 |
| 10 | Blaming the Victim | 519 |
| Suggestions for Further Reading | 529 | |
| Pt. VIII | Revisioning the Future | 530 |
| 1 | Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference | 533 |
| 2 | En rapport, In Opposition: Cobrando cuentas a las nuestras | 540 |
| 3 | Up Against the Wall | 546 |
| 4 | Toward a More Caring Society | 549 |
| 5 | A New Vision of Masculinity | 559 |
| 6 | Homophobia as a Weapon of Sexism | 565 |
| 7 | Narrowing the Income Gap between Rich and Poor | 574 |
| 8 | Feminism: A Transformational Politic | 579 |
| 9 | Still I Rise | 586 |
| 10 | The woman in the ordinary | 588 |
| Suggestions for Further Reading | 588 | |
| Index | 595 |
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