Rethinking the Color Line: Readings in Race and Ethnicity

User-friendly without sacrificing intellectual or theoretical rigor, this anthology of current research examines contemporary issues and explores new approaches to the study of race and ethnic relations. The featured readings effectively engage students by helping them understand theories and concepts. Active learning in the classroom is encouraged while providing relevance for students from all ethnic, cultural, and economic backgrounds. The fifth edition features ten new articles on such timely topics as: • The U.S. Census’ changing definition of race and ethnicity • Race-based disparities in health • Racial and gender discrimination among racial minorities and women • Being Arab and American • How social control maintains racial inequality • The increase in black and brown incarceration • How racial bias may affect the use of DNA to locate suspects of crimes • How derogatory ethnic and racial images are created and disseminated by the media • The sexualization of African American women through the use of gender stereotypes • The portrayal of light- and dark-skinned biracial characters

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Table of Contents About the Author Preface Introduction: Rethinking the Color Line: Understanding How Boundaries Shift Part I: Sorting By Color: Why We Attach Meaning To Race Race and Ethnicity: Sociohistoric Constructions and … 1. How Our Skins Got Their Color 2. Drawing the Color Line 3. Racial Formations 4. Theoretical Perspectives in Race and Ethnic Relations 5. Racialized Social Systems: Understanding Racism Seeing the Big Picture: The Social Construction of Race 1790-2000 …Contemporary Socioeconomic Trends 6. An Overview of Trends in Social and Economic Well-Being, by Race Seeing the Big Picture: The Role of Race in Social Mobility 7. The Color of Health in the United States Seeing the Big Picture: How Race Can Be Hazardous to Your Health 8. Transformative Assets, The Racial Wealth Gap and the American Dream Seeing the Big Picture: The Color of Money Race as Chameleon: How the Idea of Race Changes Over Time and Place 9. Defining Race: Comparative Perspectives Seeing the Big Picture: What was YOUR race in 1890? 10. A Tour of Indian People and Indian Lands Seeing the Big Picture: From Riches to the “Res” (Reservation System) 11. Asian American Panethnicity: Contemporary National and Transnational Possibilities Seeing the Big Picture: Panethnic Riches, Panethnic Poverty 12. Beyond Black and White: Remaking Race in America Seeing the Big Picture: Check All That Apply (Finally!): The Institutionalization of Mixed Race Identity Colorblind America: Fact, Fantasy or Our Future? 13. Color Blind Privilege: The Social and Political Functions of Erasing the Color Line in Post Race America 14. The Ideology of Colorblindness 15. The Possibility of a New Racial Hierarchy in the Twenty-First-Century United States Seeing the Big Picture: Colorblind or Blind to Color? Part II: Prejudice, Discrimination, and Racism Understanding Racism 16. Race Prejudice as a Sense of Group Position Seeing the Big Picture: Racism: Group Position or Individual Belief? 17. Discrimination and the American Creed 18. Race and Civil Rights Pre-September 11, 2001: The Targeting of Arabs and Muslims Seeing the Big Picture: America’s New Public Enemy? 19. The Possessive Investment in Whiteness Seeing the Big Picture: Race As an Investment 20. Laissez-Fair Racism, Racial Inequality and the Role of the Social Sciences How Space Gets Raced 21. Residential Segregation and Neighborhood Conditions in U.S. Metropolitan Areas Seeing the Big Picture: How Integrated is Your Neighborhood? 22. The Code of the Streets 23. Environmental Justice in the 21st Century: Race Still Matters 24. Race, Religion, and the Color Line (or is that the Color Wall?) 25. Why Are There No Supermarkets in my Neighborhood: The Long Search for Fresh Fruit, Produce and Inexpensive Healthy Food Seeing the Big Picture: Urban Food Deserts: Race, Health and the Lack of “Real” Food Part III: Racialized Opportunity in Social Institutions Race and Criminal Justice: Oxymoron or an American Tragedy 26. No Equal Justice: The Color of Punishment Seeing the Big Picture: How Race Tips the Scales of Justice 27. Everyday Racism on the Police Force 28. .…and the Poor Get Prison 29. The Mark of a Criminal Record Seeing the Big Picture: The Link Between Race, Education, Employment and Crime How Race Shapes the Workplace 30. Kristin v. Aisha; Brad v. Rasheed: What’s in a Name and How it Effects Getting a Job 31. When the Pot Boils Over; The Irish, Jews, Blacks and Koreans of New York Seeing the Big Picture: Whose Got the “Good” Jobs and Why. 32. “There’s No Shame in My Game”: Status and Stigma Among Harlem’s Working Poor 33. Sweatshops in Sunset Park: A Variation of Late Twentieth-Century Chinese Garment Shops in New York City 34. Hispanics in the American South and the Transformation of the Poultry Industry Seeing the Big Picture: How Do Segregated Newsrooms Create Biased News? Race, Representations and the Media Drug Dealers, Maids and Mammies: The Role of Stereotypes in the Media 35. Broadcast News Portrayal of Minorities: Accuracy in Reporting Seeing the Big Picture: How the Media Shapes Race Relations. 36. Television and the Politics of Representation 37. Distorted Reality: Hispanic Characters in TV Entertainment Crazy Horse Malt Liquor and Athletes: The Tenacity of Stereotypes 38. Winnebagos, Cherokees, Apaches and Dakotas: The Persistence of Stereotyping of American Indians in American Advertising Seeing the Big Picture: The Tomahawk Chop: Racism in Image and Action 39. Sport in America: The New Racial Stereotypes Seeing the Big Picture: Television’s Interracial Images: Some Fact, Mostly Fiction Part IV: How America’s Complexion Changes Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration 40. The Melting Pot and the Color Line Seeing the Big Picture: Who is Allowed to “Melt” in the Pot? Who Wants to? 41. Who are the Other African Americans? Contemporary African and Caribbean Immigrants in the United States 42. The Arab Immigrant Experience 43. Ethnic and Racial Identities of Second-Generation Black Immigrants in New York City Seeing the Big Picture: Is a Non-ethnic Racial Identity Possible? Race and Romance: Blurring Boundaries 44. Guess Who’s Been Coming to Dinner? Trends in Interracial Marriage over the 20th Century 45. Captain Kirk Kisses Lieutenant Uhura: Interracial Intimacies From Hollywood Seeing the Big Picture: Love May be Blind, But It’s Not Colorblind 46. Discovering Racial Borders 47. Redrawing the Color-Line? : The Problems and Possibilities of Multiracial Families and Group Making Seeing the Big Picture: Interracial Marriage and the Blurring of the Color Line Living With Less Racism: Strategies for Individual Action 48. Closing the Racial Inequality Gap: A Plan For Action 49. Ten Things You Can Do To Improve Race Relations Appendix Race by the Numbers—America’s Racial Report Card