Rethinking the Color Line: Readings in Race and Ethnicity / Edition 6

by Charles A. Gallagher

Overview

Charles A. Gallagher’s best-selling reader is now with SAGE Publishing!

User-friendly without sacrificing intellectual or theoretical rigor, this popular anthology for race and ethnic relations courses introduces students to classic statements, contemporary favorites, and works by early career scholars. 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. The readings reflect a variety of approaches to studying race and ethnicity: a focus on specific minority groups; two or more groups in comparative perspective; and topics that look at the experience of many groups historically and within social institutions. Readers will see how they influence and in turn are influenced by race and ethnic relations.

The new Sixth Edition has been thoroughly revised, with 18 new selections addressing topics that reflect the current debates and state of contemporary U.S. race relations, including:

• Current representations of Arabs and Muslims in the media
• Links among racial discrimination, stress, and public health outcomes
• How skin bleaching and cosmetic surgery are used to acquire racial “capital”
• The rising racial wealth gap
• How the race of drug users can turn a “crime” problem into a “public health” problem
• How race shapes immigration policies
• Home DNA ancestry tests and the blurring of existing racial boundaries

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781506394138
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	09/03/2018
Edition description:	Sixth Edition
Pages:	600
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d)

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.

Table of Contents

Part I: SORTING BY COLOR: Why We Attach Meaning to Race
Race and Ethnicity: Sociohistoric Constructions
How Our Skins Got Their Color - Marvin Harris
Drawing the Color Line - Howard Zinn
Racial Formations - Michael Omi and Howard Winant
Race and Ethnicity in America - John Iceland
Racialized Social System Approach to Racism - Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
Seeing the Big Picture: The Social Construction of Race, 1790-2000
Race and Ethnicity: Contemporary Socioeconomic Trends
Racism and Health - David R. Williams and Selina A. Mohammed
Seeing the Big Picture: How Race Can Be Hazardous to Your Health
The Roots of the Widening Racial Wealth: Explaining the Black-White Economic Wealth Gap - Thomas Shapiro, Tatjana Meschede and Sam Osoro
Seeing the Big Picture: The Color of Money
Race as Chameleon: How the Idea of Race Changes over Time and Place
Defining Race: Comparative Perspectives - F. James Davis
Seeing the Big Picture: What Was Your Race in 1890?
A Tour of Indian Peoples and Indian Lands - David E.Wilkins
Seeing the Big Picture: From Riches to the “Res” (Reservation System)
Panethnicity - Dina Okamoto and G. Cristina Mora
Seeing the Big Picture: Panethnic Fortunes: Riches to Rags
The Racialization and Muslims - Saher Selod and David G. Embrick
The Continuing Significance of Racial Genomics in Postracial Era - Kathleen Fitzgerald
Seeing the Big Picture: Check All That Apply (Finally!): The Institutionalization of Mixed Race Identity
Color-Blind America: Fact, Fantasy, or Our Future?
Color-Blind Privilege: The Social and Political Functions of Erasing the Color Line in Post-Race America - Charles A. Gallagher
Skin-Bleaching and Cosmetic Surgery: Buying Racial Capital - Margaret L. Hunter
Seeing the Big Picture: Color-Blind or Blind to Color?
The Possibility of a New Racial Hierarchy in the Twenty-First-Century United States - Herbert J. Gans
Part II: PREJUDICE, DISCRIMINATION, AND RACISM
Understanding Racism
Race Prejudice as a Sense of Group Position - Herbert Blumer
Seeing the Big Picture: Racism: Group Position or Individual Belief?
On the Removal of Confederate Monuments in New Orleans - Mitchell J. Landrieu
Discrimination and the American Creed - Robert K. Merton
The Place of Race in Conservative and Far-right Movements - Kathleen M. Blee and Elizabeth A. Yates
Seeing the Big Picture: America’s New Public Enemy?
The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: Racialized Social Democracy - George Lipsitz
Seeing the Big Picture: Race as an Investment
The Cost of a Black Corpse: The Racism in the Cadaver Trade - Daina Ramey Berry
How Space Gets Raced
Trends in Black Hypersegregation - Douglas Massey and Jonathan Tannen
Seeing the Big Picture: How Integrated Is Your Neighborhood?
The Code of the Streets - Elijah Anderson
Environmental Justice in the 21st Century: Race Still Matters - Robert D. Bullard
Race, Religion, and the Color Line (Or Is That the Color Wall?) - Michael O. Emerson
The Black-White Swimming Disparity in America: Deadly Legacy of Swimming Pool Discrimination - Jeff Wiltse
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?
Crack v. Heroin: How White Users Made Heroin a Public Health Problem - Andrew Cohen
Seeing the Big Picture: How Race Tips the Scales of Justice
The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander
American Policing Under Fire: Misconduct and Reform - Ronald Weitzer
Seeing the Big Picture: The Color of Incarceration Rates
The Mark of a Criminal Record - Devah Pager
Seeing the Big Picture: The Link between Race, Education, Employment, and Crime
How Race Shapes the Workplace
Kristen v. Aisha; Brad v. Rasheed: What’s in a Name and How It Affects Getting a Job - Amy Braverman
When the Melting Pot Boils Over: The Irish, Jews, Blacks, and Koreans of New York - Roger Waldinger
Seeing the Big Picture: Who’s Got the “Good” Jobs and Why
“There’s No Shame in My Game”: Status and Stigma among Harlem’s Working Poor - Katherine S. Newman and Catherine Ellis
Sweatshops in Sunset Park: A Variation of the Late-Twentieth-Century Chinese Garment Shops in New York City - Xiaolan Bao
Seeing the Big Picture: How Is Upward Mobility Linked to Education, Occupation, and Immigration?
Race, Representations, and the Media
Racism and Popular Culture - Danielle Dirks and Jennifer Mueller
The Media as a System of Racialization: Exploring Images of African American Women and the New Racism - Marci Bounds Littlefield
South Asian Characterizations in American Popular Music - Bhoomi K. Thakore
Arabs and Muslims in the Media After 9/11: Representational Strategies for a “Postrace” Era - Evelyn Alsultany
Seeing the Big Picture: How the Media Shapes Perceptions of Race and Occupations
Crazy Horse Malt Liquor and Athletes: The Tenacity of Stereotypes
Winnebagos, Cherokees, Apaches, and Dakotas: The Persistence of Stereotyping of American Indians in American Advertising and Brands - Debra Merskin
Seeing the Big Picture: The Tomahawk Chop: Racism in Image and Action
Taking a Knee - Jeremy Adam Smith and Dacher Keltner
Part IV: HOW AMERICA’S COMPLEXION CHANGES
Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration
Racist Immigration Policy in the US - David Scott Fitz Gerald and David Cook-Martin
The Melting Pot and the Color Line - Stephen Steinberg
Seeing the Big Picture: Who Is Allowed to “Melt” in the Pot? Who Wants To?
Who Are the Other African Americans? Contemporary African and Caribbean Immigrants in the United States - John R. Logan
The Arab Immigrant Experience - Michael W Suleiman
Ethnic and Racial Identities of Second-Generation Black Immigrants in New York City - Mary C. Waters
Seeing the Big Picture: Is a Nonethnic Racial Identity Possible?
Race and Romance: Blurring Boundaries
Intermarriage in the U.S. 50 Years after Loving v. Virginia - Gretchen Livingston and Anna Brown
Captain Kirk Kisses Lieutenant Uhura: Interracial Intimacies—The View from Hollywood - Randall L. Kennedy
Seeing the Big Picture: Love May Be Blind, but It’s Not Color-Blind
Discovering Racial Borders - Heather M. Dalmage
Redrawing the Color Line? The Problems and Possibilities of Multiracial Families and Group Making - Kimberly Mc Clain Da Costa
Seeing the Big Picture: Interracial Marriage and the Blurring of the Color Line
Living with Less Racism: Strategies for Individual Action
Policy Steps toward Closing the Gap - Meizhu Lui, Barbara J. Robles, Betsy Leondar-Wright, Rose M. Brewer, and Rebecca Adamson
Ten Things You Can Do to Improve Race Relations - Charles A. Gallagher
Appendix: Race by the Numbers: America’s Racial Report Card

Editorial Reviews

A collection for an undergraduate course, providing a theoretical framework and analytical tools and discussing the meaning of race and ethnicity as a social construction. The readings are designed to require students to negotiate between individual agency and the constraints of social structure, and to think of race and ethnicity in fluid rather than static terms. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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