Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Andersen, Margaret L.
2. Hill Collins, Patricia

Description

1. xxxii, 560 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

1. Examines the interrelationship of race, class, and gender and explores how they have shaped the experiences of all people in the U.S. Drawing from an array of contemporary and historical readings, coupled with personal narratives from a diverse group of writers, this book helps students see the connections between personal experience and social institutions. The introductions to each of the sections provide continuity. By identifying central issues in the field, these introductions help students place the book's articles in context.

Subject

1. 1980-2020
2. Social classes > United States
3. Sex role > United States
4. Homosexuality > United States
5. Discrimination > United States
6. Minority Groups > psychology
7. Social Class
8. Race Relations
9. Gender Identity > psychology
10. Discrimination
11. Homosexuality
12. Race relations
13. Sex role
14. Social classes
15. Social conditions
16. United States > Social conditions > 1980-2020
17. United States > Race relations
18. United States

Genre/Form

1. Collected Work

Contents

1. Missing people and others: joining together to expand the circle / Arturo Madrid -- La güera / Cherríe Moraga -- Report from the Bahamas / June Jordan -- Angry women are building: issues and struggles facing American Indian women today / Paula Gunn Allen -- Oppression / Marilyn Frye -- A different mirror / Ronald T. Takaki -- Something about the subject makes it hard to name / Gloria Yamato -- White privilege and male privilege: a personal account of coming to see correspondences through work in women's studies / Peggy McIntosh -- From "Kike" to "Jap": how misogyny, anti-semitism, and racism construct the "Jewish American princess" / Evelyn Torton Beck -- Is multiracial status unique? The personal and social experience / Michael C. Thornton -- Tired of playing monopoly? / Donna Langston -- The plight of black men / Michael Dyson -- Are you middle class? / Barbara Ehrenreich -- The upperclass and mothers n the hood / Holly Sklar -- Moving up with kin and community: upward social mobility for black and white women / Elizabeth Higginbotham and Lynn Weber -- Commonalities and differences / Johnnetta B. Cole -- Understanding and fighting sexism: a call to men / Peter Blood, Alan Tuttle, and George Lakey -- Taking sides against ourselves / Rosemary L. Bray -- Masculinities and athletic careers / Michael Messner -- Asian American women: not for sale / Tracy Lai -- Structural transformation and systems of inequality / D. Stanley Eitzen and Maxine Baca Zinn -- Shortchanged: restructuring women's work / Teresa Amott -- The gap between striving and achieving: the case of Asian American women / Deborah Woo -- The Latino population: the importance of economic restructuring / Joan Moore and Raquel Pinderhughes -- Our mothers' grief: racial ethnic women and the maintenance of families / Bonnie Thornton Dill -- Puerto Rican elderly women: shared meanings and informal supportive networks / Melba Sánchez-Ayéndez -- Man child: a black lesbian feminist's response / Audre Lorde -- Reports from the front: welfare mothers up in arms / Diana Dujon, Judy Gradford, and Dottie Stevens -- Education and the struggle against race, class, and gender inequality / Roslyn Arlin Mickelson and Stephen Samuel Smith -- Canto, locura y poesia / Olivia Castellano -- Reminiscence of a post-integration kid: or, where have we come since then? / Gaye Williams -- Integrating the American mind / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- Black males and social policy: breaking the cycle of disadvantage / Ronald L. Taylor -- Thoughts on class, race, and prison / Alan Berkman and Tim Blunk -- The vanished native Americans / Cynthia Brown -- The brutality of the bureaucracy / Theresa Funiciello -- Beyond racial identity politics: towards a liberation theory for multicultural democracy / Manning Marable -- Crimes against humanity / Ward Churchill -- You're short, besides! / Sucheng Chan -- Rap, race, and politics / Clarence Lusane -- If men could menstruate / Gloria Steinem -- Blame it on feminism / Susan Faludi -- Race, sex, AIDs: the construction of other / Evelynn Hammonds -- Homophobia: why bring it up? / Barbara Smith -- The beauty myth / Naomi Wolf -- Cultural and historical influences on sexuality in Hispanic/Latin women: implicationis for psychotherapy / Oliva M. Espín -- A new politics of sexuality / June Jordan -- The mind that burns in each body: women, rape, and racial violence / Jacquelyn Dowd Hall -- More power than we want: masculine sexuality and violence / Bruce Kokopeli and George Lakey -- The police and the black male / Elijah Anderson -- Korean Americans vs. African Americans: conflict and construction / Sumi K. Cho -- Fraternities and rape on campus / Patricia Yancey Martin and Robert A. Hummer -- Growing numbers, growing force: older women organize / Kathleen Kautzer -- Sharing the shop floor / Stan Gray -- From homemaker to housing advocate: an interview with Mrs. Chang Jok Lee / Nancy Diao -- A world worth living in / Roberta Praeger -- Age, race, class, and sex: women redefining difference / Audre Lorde -- Coalition politics: turning the century / Bernice Johnson Reagon -- Culture and gender in Indian America / Rayna Green -- Race matters / Cornel West.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references.