Doing Race : 21 Essays for the 21st Century
ISBN: 9780393930702 | 039393070X
Edition: 00Format: Textbook Paperback
Publisher: W W NORTON
Pub. Date: 4/17/2010
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In Doing Race , scholars from across the disciplines have written original essays on race and ethnicity aimed at an undergraduate audience. The book provides a practical response to the view, common in American debates, that race and ethnicity no longer matter, or that race and ethnicity should not be taken into account when deciding how to structure society and formulate public policy. It also answers the question of why race and ethnicity play such a large role in fueling violence around the globe. Doing Race shows that race and ethnicity mat... MORE
| Preface | p. ix |
| Doing Race: An Introduction | p. 1 |
| What race and ethnicity are, how they work, and why achieving a just society requires us to take account of them | |
| Inventing Race and Ethnicity | |
| How race is made real through governmental policies, scientific research, and medical marketing | |
| Defining Race and Ethnicity: The Constitution, the Supreme Court, and the Census | p. 105 |
| Models of... MORE | p. 123 |
| The Biology of Ancestry: DNA, Genomic Variation, and Race | p. 136 |
| Which Differences Make a Difference? Race, DNA, and Health | p. 160 |
| Racing Difference | |
| The historically specific but universal processes by which difference becomes understood as inferiority | |
| The Jew as the Original “Other”: Difference, Antisemitism, and Race | p. 187 |
| Knowing the “Other”: Arabs, Islam, and the West | p. 199 |
| Eternally Foreign: Asian Americans, History, and Race | p. 216 |
| A Thoroughly Modern Concept: Ethnic Cleansing, Genocide, and the State | p. 234 |
| Institutionalizing Difference | |
| How race organizes what we know, where we live, how we are educated, who we punish | |
| Race in the News: Stereotypes, Political Campaigns, and Market-Based Journalism | p. 251 |
| Going Back to Compton: Real Estate, Racial Politics, and Black-Brown Relations | p. 274 |
| Structured for Failure: Race, Resources, and Student Achievement | p. 295 |
| Racialized Mass Incarceration: Poverty, Prejudice, and Punishment | p. 322 |
| Racing Identity | |
| How race and ethnicity shape how we see, how we act, and who we are | |
| Who Am I? Race, Ethnicity, and Identity | p. 359 |
| In the Air between Us: Stereotypes, Identity, and Achievement | p. 390 |
| Ways of Being White: Privilege, Perceived Stigma, and Transcendence | p. 415 |
| Enduring Racial Associations: African Americans, Crime, and Animal Imagery | p. 439 |
| We're Honoring You, Dude: Myths, Mascots, and American Indians | p. 458 |
| Re-presenting Reality | |
| The singular and powerful role of the arts in challenging racial inequality by imagining alternate worlds | |
| Another Way to Be: Women of Color, Literature, and Myth | p. 483 |
| Hiphop and Race: Blackness, Language, and Creativity | p. 509 |
| The “Ethno-Ambiguo Hostility Syndrome”: Mixed-Race, Identity, and Popular Culture | p. 528 |
| We Wear the Mask: Performance, Social Dramas, and Race | p. 545 |
| Credits | p. 563 |
| Index | p. 567 |
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