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Table of Contents

Part I, The Social Construction of Difference: Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality

1 What Race Isn’t: Teaching about Racism--Aurora Levins Morales

2 Racial Formation--Michael Omi and Howard Winant

3 Derailing Rebellion: Inventing White Privilege--Pem Davidson Buck

4 How Jews Became White Folks, and What That Says About Race in America--Karen Brodkin

5 "Night to His Day": The Social Construction of Gender--Judith Lorber

6 The Invention of Heterosexuality--Jonathan Ned Katz

7 Masculinity as Homophobia: Fear, Shame and Silence in the Construction of Gender Identity--Michael S. Kimmel

8 Flipping the Script: Black Manhood and the Proactive Process of Becoming--Tim’m T. West

9 Transgender Feminism: Queering the Woman Question--Susan Stryker

10 Debunking the Pathology of Poverty--Susan Greenbaum

11 Disability and the Justification of Inequality in American History--Douglas C. Baynton

12 Domination and Subordination--Jean Baker Miller

PART II Understanding Racism, Sexism, Heterosexism, and Class Privilege

1 Why Intersectionality Can’t Wait--Kimberlé Crenshaw

2 Defining Racism: "Can we talk?"--Beverly Daniel Tatum

3 Between the World and Me--Ta-Nehisi Coates

4 Beyond Hate: Strategic Racism --Ian Haney López

5 Color-Blind Racism --Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

6 Neither Black nor White --Angelo N. Ancheta

7 Los Intersticios: Recasting Moving Selves --Evelyn Alsultany

8 The Case of Sharon Kowalski and Karen Thompson: Ableism, Heterosexism, and Sexism --Joan L. Griscom

9 Homophobia as a Weapon of Sexism --Suzanne Pharr

10 Class in America--Gregory Mantsios

11 White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack--Peggy McIntosh

12 My Class Didn’t Trump My Race: Using Oppression to Face Privilege--Robin J. DiAngelo

PART III Citizenship and Immigration: Constructing Nationality, Borders, and Belonging

1 Racial Restrictions in the Law of Citizenship--Ian Haney López

2 America’s Love-Hate Relationship with Immigrants--Angelica Quintero

3 Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal--Aviva Chomsky

4 There Are Deep Ties Between Nativism and Anti-Semitism--Jaclyn Granick and Britt Tevis

5 How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? --Moustafa Bayoumi

6 Cookies --Bao Phi

7 Second Attempt Crossing--Javier Zamora

8 For Many Latinos, Racial Identity Is More Culture Than Color--Mireya Navarro

9 Black Ethnics: Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the American Dream--Christina M. Greer

10 The Myth of the Model Minority --Noy Thrupkaew

PART IV Discrimination in Everyday Life

1 The Problem: Discrimination--U.S. Commission on Civil Rights

2 The Georgia Governor’s Race Has Brought Voter Suppression into Full View--Vann R. Newkirk II

3 The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness--Michelle Alexander

4 Living While Black and the Criminalization of Blackness P. R. Lockhart

5 The Ghosts of Stonewall: Policing Gender, Policing Sex--Joey L. Mogul, Andrea J. Ritchie, and Kay Whitlock

6 The Transgender Crucible--Sabrina Rubin Erdely

7 First Nations, Queer and Education--Raven E. Heavy Runner

8 Queer and Undocumented --Mohammad

9 Living in an Immigrant Family in America: How Fear and Toxic Stress Are Affecting Daily Life, Well-Being, and Health --Samantha Artiga and Petry Ubri

10 "They Treat Me Like a Criminal, but They Are the Criminals" --Laura Gottesdiener, Malav Kanuga, and Cinthya Santos-Briones

11 Why Black Women’s Experiences of #MeToo Are Different--Yolonda Wilson

12 Power-Conscious Approaches to Campus Sexual Violence --Chris Linder and Jessica C. Harris

13 Standing Rock, Flint, and the Color of Water --Christopher F. Petrella with Ameer Loggins

14 Healing the Trauma of Post-9/11 Racism One Story (and Melody) at a Time--Sonny Singh

PART V The Economics of Race, Class, and Gender

1 Imagine a Country --Holly Sklar

2 A Question of Class --Dorothy Allison

3 The Subprime and Foreclosure Crisis: Ten Years Later --Jillian Olinger

4 The Making of the American 99% and the Collapse of the Middle Class--Barbara Ehrenreich and John Ehrenreich

5 Ending the Debt Trap: Strategies to Stop the Abuse of Court-Imposed Fines and Fees --Alexandra Bastien

6 Immigration Enforcement as a Race-Making Institution Douglas S. Massey

7 Gender and the Black Jobs Crisis--Linda Burnham

8 Domestic Workers Bill of Rights: A Feminist Approach for a New Economy--Ai-jen Poo

9 Why America’s Schools Have a Money Problem--NPR

10 The New Face of Hunger--Tracie McMillan

11 "I am Alena": Life as a Trans Woman Where Survival Means Living as Christopher --Ed Pilkington

12 Cause of Death: Inequality--Alejandro Reuss

PART VI Living Knowledge and Testimony

1 La Güera --Cherríe Moraga

2 Civilize Them with a Stick--Mary Brave Bird (Crow Dog) with Richard Erdoes

3 Lying to Children about the California Missions and the Indians --Deborah A. Miranda

4 Then Came the War --Yuri Kochiyama

5 San Diegan Hopes to Reunite with Mother Despite "Muslim Ban"--Dhaha Nur

6 Crossing the Border without Losing Your Past--Oscar Casares

7 "You are in the dark, in the car..."--Claudia Rankine

8 Male-on-Male Rape --Michael Scarce

9 He Defies You Still: The Memoirs of a Sissy --Tommi Avicolli Mecca

10 Gentrification Will Drive My Uncle out of His Neighborhood, and I Will Have Helped--Eric Rodriguez

11 My Vassar College Faculty ID Makes Everything OK--Kiese Laymon

12 The Unbearable (In)visibility of Being Trans --Chase Strangio

13 Black Bodies in Motion and in Pain --Edwidge Danticat

PART VII How It Happens: Legal Constructions of Power and Privilege

1 Indian Tribes: A Continuing Quest for Survival --U.S. Commission on Civil Rights

2 An Act for the Better Ordering and Governing of Negroes and Slaves (South Carolina, 1712)

3 The Petition of the Africans, Living in Boston (1773)

4 United States Constitution: Slavery Provisions (1787)

5 An Act to Prevent All Persons from Teaching Slaves to Read or Write, the Use of Figures Excepted (North Carolina, 1830)

6 Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, Seneca Falls Convention (1848)

7 People v. Hall (California, 1854)

8 Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)

9 The Emancipation Proclamation (1863)--Abraham Lincoln

10 United States Constitution: Thirteenth (1865), Fourteenth (1868), and Fifteenth (1870) Amendments

11 South Carolina Black Codes (1865)

12 Bradwell v. Illinois (1873)

13 The Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)

14 Elk v. Wilkins (1884)

15 Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

16 United States Constitution: Nineteenth Amendment (1920)

17 Equal Rights Amendment (Proposed 1923)

18 U.S. v. Bhagat Singh Thind (1923)

19 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)

20 Roe v. Wade (1973)

21 McCleskey v. Kemp (1987)

22 Shelby County v. Holder (2013)

23 Obergefell v. Hodges (2015)

PART VIII Maintaining Race, Class, and Gender Hierarchies

1 Self-Fulfilling Stereotypes --Mark Snyder

2 Am I Thin Enough Yet? --Sharlene Hesse-Biber

3 Institutions and Ideologies --Michael Parenti

4 How Fascism Works --Jason Stanley

5 Understanding Antisemitism --Jews For Racial & Economic Justice

6 Cowboys and Indians: Toys of Genocide, Icons of American Colonialism--Michael Yellow Bird

7 Still Separate, Still Unequal: America’s Educational Apartheid --Jonathan Kozol

8 Masked Racism: Reflections on the Prison Industrial Complex--Angela Davis

9 Media Magic: Making Class Invisible--Gregory Mantsios

10 You May Know Me from Such Roles as Terrorist #4 --Jon Ronson

11 Against "Bullying" or On Loving Queer Kids --Richard Kim

12 When You Forget to Whistle Vivaldi --Tressie McMillan Cottom

PART IX Social Change: Revisioning the Future and Making a Difference

1 Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference--Audre Lorde

2 Feminism: A Transformational Politic --bell hooks

3 From Oppressor to Activist: Reflections of a Feminist Journey --Amit Taneja

4 Interrupting the Cycle of Oppression: The Role of Allies as Agents of Change --Andrea Ayvazian

5 The Pitfalls of Ally Performance: Why Coalition Work Is More Effective Than Ally Theater --Kristin J. Anderson and Christina Hsu Accomando

6 A Herstory of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement --Alicia Garza

7 The Me Too Movement: The Rigorous Work That Still Lies Ahead --Tarana Burke

8 Reproductive Justice in the Twenty-First Century -- Loretta J. Ross and Rickie Solinger

9 Are Prisons Obsolete? Abolitionist Alternatives --Angela Davis

10 Building an Abolitionist Trans and Queer Movement with Everything We’ve Got --Morgan Bassichis, Alexander Lee, and Dean Spade

11 What the Dreamers Can Teach the Parkland Kids --Gaby Pacheco

12 Standing Rock Is Everywhere: One Year Later -- Chief Arvol Looking Horse

Authors

Paula S. Rothenberg

Paula S. Rothenberg was a Senior Fellow at The Murphy Institute, City University of New York and Professor at William Patterson University of New Jersey. From 1989 to 2006 she served as Director of The New Jersey Project on Inclusive Scholarship, Curriculum, and Teaching. She was the author of several books including the autobiographical Invisible Privilege: A Memoir about Race, Class, and Gender. With Worth Publishers she has authored four titles--the best-selling Race, Class, and Gender; White Privilege; Beyond Borders; and What's the Problem? Her articles and essays appear in journals and anthologies across the disciplines and have been widely reprinted. Her work was instrumental in the creation of women’s studies and multicultural studies as academic disciplines.

Christina Hsu Accomando

Christina Hsu Accomando is a professor of English and Critical Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Humboldt State University in Arcata, California. She teaches multiethnic U.S. literature, ethnic studies, women’s studies, and multicultural queer studies. Drawing upon critical race studies and women of color feminism, her scholarship focuses on the law and literature of U.S. slavery and resistance, particularly the work of Harriet Jacobs and Sojourner Truth, as well as contemporary issues of race, gender, and U.S. law. She is the author of “The Regulations of Robbers”: Legal Fictions of Slavery and Resistance, and her essays have appeared in Still Seeking an Attitude: Critical Reflections on the Work of June Jordan and the Norton Critical Edition of Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. She blogs with Kristin J. Anderson for Psychology Today, and her work has also been published in MELUS, African American Review, Feminism & Psychology, and The Antioch Review. In addition, Accomando co-edited and wrote the introduction for the expanded second edition of Tim’m West’s RED DIRT REVIVAL: a poetic memoir in 6 breaths.

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