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Race, Class, and Gender in the United States

An Integrated StudyTwelfth Edition ©2024 Paula Rothenberg; Christina Hsu Accomando

Race, Class, and Gender helps students understand the impacts of race, class, gender, sexuality, ability, immigration status in the United States, prompting them to think critically about the interlocking systems of power and oppression that underlie these important topics, and to examin...

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Race, Class, and Gender in the United States by Paula Rothenberg; Christina Hsu Accomando - Twelfth Edition, 2024 from Macmillan Student Store

Spark class discussions on the important topics of our times

 

Race, Class, and Gender helps students understand the impacts of race, class, gender, sexuality, ability, immigration status in the United States, prompting them to think critically about the interlocking systems of power and oppression that underlie these important topics, and to examine strategies for confronting and challenging injustice. The 116 writings in this range from historical documents to groundbreaking scholarship to writing by today’s leading activists and thinkers. This edition includes 30 new selections on such topics as the disparate impact of COVID-19, the overturning of Roe v. Wade, legislative attempts to ban books and prevent the teaching of critical race theory, the politicization of transgender rights, and many others.

 

Features

  • 116 readings, including 30 new readings
  • Part Intros and Guiding Questions that place the readings in context and invite students to explore the connections between them
  • Author bios that introduce students to leading scholars, thinkers, and activists
  • Editorial notes providing additional insight on several readings
  • Suggestions for further reading to invite readers to explore these topics more deeply

New to This Edition

Thoroughly updated table of context features 32 new readings including:

  • “Transgender People and ‘Biological Sex’ Myths” by Julia Serano
  • “Color-Blind Racism in Pandemic Times” by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
  • “The Politicization of Trans Identities” by Loren Canon
  • Excerpts from The Second by Carol Anderson
  • Excerpts from Harvest of Empire by Juan Gonzalez
  • “Stolen from Our Bodies” by Qwo Li Driskill
  • “The Dehumanization of Nonbinary Life” by Alok Vaid-Memon
  • Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization
  • “The Crisis of American Democracy” by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
  • “Why Book Bans and Voter Suppression Go Hand in Hand” by Kimberlé Crenshaw
  • Excerpts from On Critical Race Theory by Victor Ray
  • “Creating a Neurodiverse World” by Devon Price
  • “A New Way Ordered by Love” by Sonya Renee Taylor

 

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Table of Contents

Part I: The Social Construction of Difference: Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality
Part II: Understanding Racism, Sexism, Heterosexism, Ableism, Transphobia, and Class Privilege
Part III: Citizenship and Immigration: Constructing Nationality, Borders, and Belonging
Part IV: Discrimination in Everyday Life
Part V: The Economics of Race, Class, and Gender
Part VI: Living Knowledge and Testimony
Part VII: How It Happens: Legal Constructions of Power and Privilege
PArt VIII: Maintaining Race, Class, and Gender Hierarchies
Part IX: Social Change: Revisioning the Future and Making a Difference

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.