Rethinking the Color Line: Readings in Race and Ethnicity

Rethinking the Color Line helps make sense of how race and ethnicity influence aspects of social life in ways that are often made invisible by culture, politics, and economics. Charles A. Gallagher has assembled a collection of readings that are theoretically informed and empirically grounded to explain the dynamics of race and ethnicity in the United States. Students will be equipped to confidently navigate the issues of race and ethnicity, examine its contradictions, and gain a comprehensive understanding of how race and ethnic relations are embedded in the institutions that structure their lives. User-friendly without sacrificing intellectual or theoretical rigor, the Seventh Edition has been thoroughly updated to reflect the current debates and the state of contemporary U.S race relations.

Table of Contents:
Preface About the Editor INTRODUCTION • RETHINKING THE COLOR LINE: Understanding How Boundaries Shift Part I: SORTING BY COLOR: Why We Attach Meaning to Race Reading 1. How Our Skins Got Their Color - Marvin Harris Reading 2. Drawing the Color Line - Howard Zinn Reading 3. Our Democracy’s Founding Ideals Were False When They Were Written. Black Americans Have Fought to Make Them True - Nikole Hannah-Jones Reading 4. Racial Formations - Michael Omi and Howard Winant Reading 5. Race and Ethnicity in America - John Iceland Reading 6. Racialized Social System Approach to Racism - Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Reading 7. Why Are Blacks Dying at Higher Rates From COVID-19? - Rashawn Ray Reading 8. Racism and Health - David R. Williams and Selina A. Mohammed Reading 9. The Roots of the Widening Racial Wealth Gap: Explaining the Black-White Economic Divide - Thomas Shapiro, Tatjana Meschede, and Sam Osoro Reading 10: Defining Race: Comparative Perspectives - F. James Davis Reading 11. A Tour of Indian Peoples and Indian Lands - David E. Wilkins Reading 12. Panethnicity - Dina Okamoto and G. Cristina Mora Reading 13. Racialization and Muslims: Situating the Muslim Experience in Race Scholarship - Saher Selod and David G. Embrick Reading 14. Latinos & Racism in the Trump Era - Stepanie L. Canizales and Jody Agius Vallejo Reading 15. Institutional Racism Revisited: How Institutions Promote Racism Through Colorblindness - Charles A. Gallagher Reading 16. Buying Racial Capital: Skin-Bleaching and Cosmetic Surgery in a Globalized World - Margaret L. Hunter Reading 17. Post-Colorblindness? Trump and the Rise of the New White Nationalism - Ashely “Woody” Doane Part II: Prejudice, Discrimination, and Racism Reading 18. Race Prejudice as a Sense of Group Position - Herbert Blumer Reading 19. Truth: Remarks On the Removal of Confederate Monuments In New Orleans - Mayor Mitchell J. Landrieu Reading 20. Discrimination and the American Creed - Robert K. Merton Reading 21. The Place of Race in Conservative and Far-right Movements - Kathleen M. Blee and Elizabeth A. Yates Reading 22. The Cost of a Black Corpse: The Racism in the Cadaver Trade - Daina Ramey Berry Reading 23. A Research Note on Trends in Black Hypersegregation - Douglas S. Massey and Jonathan Tannen Reading 24. Environmental Justice in the 21st Century: Race Still Matters - Robert D. Bullard Reading 25. Race, Religion, and the Color Line (Or Is That the Color Wall?) - Michael O. Emerson Reading 26. The Black-White Swimming Disparity in America: Deadly Legacy of Swimming Pool Discrimination - Jeff Wiltse Part III: Racialized Opportunity in Social Institutions Reading 27. The Mark of a Criminal Record - Devah Pager Reading 28. Crack v. Heroin: How White Users Made Heroin a Public-Health Problem - Andrew Cohen Reading 29. The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander Reading 30. An Unjust Burden: The Disparate Treatment of Black Americans in the Criminal Justice System - Elizabeth Hinton, LeShare Henderson, and Cindy Reed Reading 31. Ending Mass Incarceration: Six (Not So) Radical Policies for Rapid Decarceration - Natasha A. Frost, Todd R. Clear, and Carlos E. Monteiro Reading 32. Kristen v. Aisha; Brad v. Rasheed: What’s in a Name and How It Affects Getting a Job - Amy Braverman Reading 33. When the Melting Pot Boils Over: The Irish, Jews, Blacks, and Koreans of New York - Roger Waldinger Reading 34. Why So Many Organizations Stay White - Victor Ray Reading 35. What’s in a Name? For Some Brands, a Racist History Primed to be Toppled - Allegra Frank Reading 36. Racism and Popular Culture - Danielle Dirks and Jennifer Mueller Reading 37. The Media as a System of Racialization: Exploring Images of African American Women and the New Racism - Marci Bounds Littlefield Reading 38. South Asian Characterizations in American Popular Media - Bhoomi K. Thakore Reading 39. Arabs and Muslims in the Media After 9/11: Representational Strategies for a “Postrace” Era - Evelyn Alsultany Reading 40. Winnebagos, Cherokees, Apaches, and Dakotas: The Persistence of Stereotyping of American Indians in American Advertising and Brands - Debra Merskin Reading 41. Taking a Knee - Jeremy Adam Smith and Dacher Keltner Part IV: How America’s Complexion Changes Reading 42. It’s Always Been About Exclusion - Caitlin Dickerson Reading 43. Culling the Masses: The Democratic Origins of Racist Immigration Policy in the Americas - David Scott FitzGerald and David Cook-Martín Reading 44. The Melting Pot and the Color Line - Stephen Steinberg Reading 45. Who Are the Other African Americans? Contemporary African and Caribbean Immigrants in the United States - John R. Logan Reading 46. The Arab Immigrant Experience - Michael W Suleiman Reading 47. Ethnic and Racial Identities of Second-Generation Black Immigrants in New York City - Mary C. Waters Reading 48. Intermarriage in the U.S. 50 Years after Loving v. Virginia - Gretchen Livingston and Anna Brown Reading 49. Captain Kirk Kisses Lieutenant Uhura: Interracial Intimacies—The View from Hollywood - Randall L. Kennedy Reading 50. Discovering Racial Borders - Heather M. Dalmage Reading 51. Redrawing the Color Line?: The Problems and Redrawing the Color Line?: The Problems and - Redrawing the Color Line?: The Problems and Reading 52. The Sum of US: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together - Heather McGhee Reading 53. Ten Things You Can Do to Improve Race Relations - Charles A. Gallagher Appendix: Race by the Numbers: America’s Racial Report Card Notes and References Credits

About the Author :
Charles A. Gallagher is professor and chair of the Sociology and Criminal Justice Department at La Salle University. His research focuses on social inequality, race relations, and immigration and has published over 50 articles, reviews, and books on these topics. As a nationally recognized expert on race, immigration, and social inequality Professor Gallagher has given over sixty talks on these topics around the country, serves as an expert witness on civil rights cases, and is a frequent media source on these issues, appearing in the press, television, and radio interviews over 100 times. He is currently writing a book on how institutions create self-reinforcing accounts of colorblind egalitarianism that serve to maintain, normalize, and reproduce racial inequality. He recently returned from Fulbright Scholar in the UK where he studied residents’ views on immigration. He also serves as Senior Fellow at Yale University’s Urban Ethnography Project.