Doing race : 21 essays for the 21st century /

"Doing Race focuses on race and ethnicity in everyday life: what they are, how they work, and why they matter. Going to school and work, renting an apartment or buying a house, watching television, voting, listening to music, reading books and newspapers, attending religious services, and going...

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Other Authors: Markus, Hazel, Moya, Paula M. L.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2010.
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Table of Contents:
  • Defining Race and Ethnicity: The Constitution, the Court, and the Census / C. Matthew Snipp
  • Models of American Ethnic Relations: Hierarchy, Assimilation, and Pluralism / George Fredrickson
  • The Biology of Ancestry: DNA, Genomic Variation, and Race / Marcus W. Feldman / Which Differences Make a Difference? Race, Health, and DNA / Barbara Koenig
  • The Jew as the Original 'Other': Difference, Antisemitism, and Race / Aron Rodrigue
  • Knowing the 'Other': Arabs, Islam, and the West / Joel Beinin
  • Eternally Foreign: Asian Americans, History, and Race / Gordon H. Chang
  • A Thoroughly Modern Concept: Ethnic Cleansing, Genocide, and the State / Norman M. Naimark
  • Race in the News: Stereotypes, Political Campaigns, and Market-Based Journalism / Shanto Iyengar
  • Going Back to Compton: Real Estate, Racial Politics, and Black-Brown Relations / Albert M. Camarillo
  • Structured for Failure: Race, Resources, and Student Achievement / Linda Darling-Hammond
  • Racialized Mass Incarceration: Poverty, Prejudice, and Punishment / Lawrence D. Bobo and Victor Thompson
  • Who Am I? Race, Ethnicity, and Identity / Hazel Rose Markus
  • In the Air Between Us: Stereotypes, Identity, and Achievement / Claude M. Steele
  • Ways of Being White: Privilege, Stigma, and Transcendence / Monica McDermott
  • Enduring Racial Associations: African Americans, Crime, and Animal Imagery / Jennifer L. Eberhardt
  • We're Honoring You Dude: Myths, Mascots, and American Indians / Stephanie Fryberg and Alisha Watts
  • Another Way to Be: Women of Color, Literature, and Myth / Paula M. L. Moya
  • Hiphop and Race: Blackness, Language, and Creativity / Marcyliena Morgan and Dawn-Elissa Fischer
  • The 'Ethno-Ambiguo Hostility Syndrome': Mixed-Race, Identity, and Popular Culture / Michele Elam
  • 'We wear the mask': Performance, Social Dramas, and Race / Harry Elam