The meaning of difference : American constructions of race, sex and gender, social class, and sexual orientation : a text/reader / [editors] Karen E. Rosenblum, Toni-Michelle C. Travis.

Contributor(s): Rosenblum, Karen Elaine [editor] | Travis, Toni-Michelle, 1947- [editor]
Language: English Publisher: Boston : McGraw-Hill, c2000Edition: Second editionDescription: xiv, 476 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 007229602X (pbk.); 9780072296020Subject(s): Cultural pluralism -- United States | United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-DDC classification: 306.0973 LOC classification: HN59.2 | .M44 2000Online resources: Publisher description | Table of contents
Contents:
Framework essay: constructing categories of difference. What is race? Who is Black? One nation's definition ; The new colored people ; Federal Indian identification policy ; La Raza and the melting pot: a comparative look at multiethnicity ; Asian American panethnicity ; Whiteness as an "unmarked" cultural category -- What is sex? What is gender? The five sexes: why male and female are not enough ; The Berdache tradition ; Gender stereotypes and roles -- What is social class? How much social mobility exists in the United States? ; The underclass: concept, controversy, and evidence -- What is sexual orientation? The invention of heterosexuality ; Homosexuality: a social phenomenon ; The development of gay, lesbian, and bisexual identities -- Framework essay: experiencing difference. What are you? ; Oppression ; "Can you see the rainbow" the roots of denial ; Disability beyond stigma: social interaction, discrimination, and activism ; Time to look and listen ; The accidental Asian ; Can Asian-Americans turn the media tide? ; Diversity and its discontents ; Talking past each other: Black and white languages of race ; Driving while Black: a statistician proves that prejudice still rules the road ; Darkness made visible: law, metaphor, and the racial self ; Of race and risk ; Wears jump suit, sensible shoes, uses husband's last name ; Gender bending ; A question of class ; Why are droves of unqualified, unprepared kids getting into our top colleges? Because their dads are alumni -- Framework essay: the meaning of difference. Law politics, and policy. Twelve key Supreme Court cases ; The rise and fall of affirmative action ; The shape of the river: long-term consequences of considering race in college and university admissions ; Social movements and the politics of difference ; The economy. The possessive investment in whiteness: how white people profit form identity politics ; Strangers among us: how Latino immigration is transforming America ; The gender gap: contours and causes ; Science. The DNA mystique ; The health of Black folk: disease, class, and ideology in science ; Media, science, and sexual ideology: the promotion of sexual stability ; Disability definitions: the politics of meaning ; Popular culture. Backlash ; Ideological racism and cultural resistance: constructing our own images ; What Americans don't know about Indians ; Language. English in a multicultural America ; Racism in the English language ; Gender stereotyping in the English language ; To be and be seen: the politics of reality.
Summary: This text focuses on the social construction of difference that operates in American formulations of race, sex and gender, social class, and sexual orientation. Three framework essays provide the conceptual structure for the book.
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Framework essay: constructing categories of difference. What is race? Who is Black? One nation's definition ; The new colored people ; Federal Indian identification policy ; La Raza and the melting pot: a comparative look at multiethnicity ; Asian American panethnicity ; Whiteness as an "unmarked" cultural category --
What is sex? What is gender? The five sexes: why male and female are not enough ; The Berdache tradition ; Gender stereotypes and roles --
What is social class? How much social mobility exists in the United States? ; The underclass: concept, controversy, and evidence --
What is sexual orientation? The invention of heterosexuality ; Homosexuality: a social phenomenon ; The development of gay, lesbian, and bisexual identities --
Framework essay: experiencing difference. What are you? ; Oppression ; "Can you see the rainbow" the roots of denial ; Disability beyond stigma: social interaction, discrimination, and activism ; Time to look and listen ; The accidental Asian ; Can Asian-Americans turn the media tide? ; Diversity and its discontents ; Talking past each other: Black and white languages of race ; Driving while Black: a statistician proves that prejudice still rules the road ; Darkness made visible: law, metaphor, and the racial self ; Of race and risk ; Wears jump suit, sensible shoes, uses husband's last name ; Gender bending ; A question of class ; Why are droves of unqualified, unprepared kids getting into our top colleges? Because their dads are alumni --
Framework essay: the meaning of difference. Law politics, and policy. Twelve key Supreme Court cases ; The rise and fall of affirmative action ; The shape of the river: long-term consequences of considering race in college and university admissions ; Social movements and the politics of difference ; The economy. The possessive investment in whiteness: how white people profit form identity politics ; Strangers among us: how Latino immigration is transforming America ; The gender gap: contours and causes ; Science. The DNA mystique ; The health of Black folk: disease, class, and ideology in science ; Media, science, and sexual ideology: the promotion of sexual stability ; Disability definitions: the politics of meaning ; Popular culture. Backlash ; Ideological racism and cultural resistance: constructing our own images ; What Americans don't know about Indians ; Language. English in a multicultural America ; Racism in the English language ; Gender stereotyping in the English language ; To be and be seen: the politics of reality.

This text focuses on the social construction of difference that operates in American formulations of race, sex and gender, social class, and sexual orientation. Three framework essays provide the conceptual structure for the book.

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