Race, Class, & Gender: An Anthology
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RACE, CLASS, AND, GENDER, includes many interdisciplinary readings. The author's selection of very accessible articles show how race, class, and gender shape people's experiences, and help students to see the issues in an analytic, as well as descriptive way. The book also provides conceptual grounding in understanding race, class, and gender; has a strong historical and sociological perspective; and is further strengthened by conceptual introductions by the authors.
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Students will find the readings engaging and accessible, but may gain the most from the introduction sections that highlight key points and relate the essential concepts. Included in the collection of readings are narratives aimed at building empathy, and articles on important social issues such as prison, affirmative action, poverty, immigration, and racism, among other topics.
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Why race, class, and gender still matter by M.L. Andersen and P.H. Collins
Missing people and others, joining together to expand the circle by A. Madrid
Systems of power and inequality by M.L. Andersen and P.H. Collins
Race and racism, Racism without "racists" by E. Bonilla-Silva
Class and inequality, Growing gulf between rich and the rest of us by H. Sklar
Gender and sexism, Sex and gender through the prism of difference by M.B. Zinn, P. Hondahneu-Sotelo, and M. Messner
Ethnicity and nationality, Is this a white country, or what? by L. Rubin
Sexuality and heterosexism, "You talkin' to me?" by J. Kilbourne
Structure of social institutions by M.L. Andersen and P.H. Collins
Work and economic transformation, Race, class, gender, and women's works by T. Amott and J. Matthaei
Families, Our mothers' grief, racial-ethnic women and the maintenance of families by B.T. Dill
Media and culture, Racist stereotyping in the English language by R.B. Moore
Health and social welfare, Can education eliminate race, class, and gender inequality? by R.A. Mickelson and S.S. Smith
State institutions and violence, First Americans, American Indians by C.M. Snipp
Social change and sites of change by M.L. Andersen and P.H. Collins
Sites of change, Starbucks paradox by K. Fellner
Processes of change, How the new working class transform urban America by R.D.G. Kelley
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