Contents: Machine derived contents note: Part I: Constructing Differences --
Race and Ethnicity --
Michael Omi and Howard Winant, Racial Formations --
Mary C. Waters, Optional Ethnicities: For Whites Only? --
Yen Le Espiritu, Asian American Panethnicity --
Karen Brodkin Sacks, How Jews Became White --
Social Class --
John Schwartz, The Hidden Side of the Clinton Economy --
Gregory Mantsios, Media Magic: Making Class Invisible --
Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, Have-Mores and Have-Lesses --
Stephen Richard Higley, Privilege, Power, and Place: The Geography of the American Upper Class --
Sex and Gender --
Judith Lorber, ?Night to His Day?: The Social Construction of Gender --
Anne Fausto-Sterling, The Five Sexes: Why Male and Female Are Not Enough --
Holly Boswell, The Transgender Paradigm Shift toward Free Expression --
Thomas J. Gerschick and Adam S. Miller, Coming to Terms: Masculinity and Physical Disability --
Sexuality --
Jonathan Ned Katz, The Invention of Heterosexuality --
John Stoltenberg, How Men Have (a) Sex --
Paula C. Rust, Sexual Identity and Bisexual Identities: The Struggle for Self-Description in a Changing Sexual Landscape --
Kate Bornstein, Naming All the Parts --
Part II: Maintaining Inequalities: Systems of Oppression and Privilege --
Social Institutions --
Family --
Bonnie Thornton Dill, Our Mothers? Grief: Racial-Ethnic Women and the Maintenance of Families --
Lillian B. Rubin, Families on the Fault Line: America?s Working Class Speaks About the Family, the Economy, Race, and Ethnicity --
Arlie Hochschild, The Second Shift: Employed Women are Putting in Another Day of Work at Home --
Nan D. Hunter, Sexual Dissent and the Family: The Sharon Kowalski Case --
Education --
Jonathan Kozol, Savage Inequalities: Children in America?s Schools --
Peter W. Cookson Jr. and Caroline Hodges Persell, Preparing for Power: Cultural Capital and Curricula in America?s Elite Boarding Schools --
Mary Crow Dog and Richard Erdoes, Civilize Them with a Stick --
Myra Sadker and David Sadker, Missing in Interaction --
Work and the Economy --
David M. Gordon, The Wage Squeeze --
Kathryn M. Neckerman and Joleen Kirschenman, ?We?d Love to Hire Them But. ?: The Meaning of Race for Employers --
Christine L. Williams, The Glass Escalator: Hidden Advantages for Men in the ?Female? Professions --
The State and Public Policy --
Randy Albelda and Chris Tilly, It?s a Family Affair: Women, Poverty, and Welfare --
David Cole, No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System --
Barbara Reskin, The Effects of Affirmative Action on Other Stakeholders --
George Lipsitz, The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: Racialized Social Democracy and the ?White? Problem in American Studies --
Media --
Richard Butsch, Ralph, Fred, Archie, and Homer: Why Television Keeps Recreating the White Male Working-Class Buffoon --
Robert S. Lichter and Daniel R. Amundson, Distorted Reality: Hispanic Characters in TV Entertainment --
Peter Nardi, Changing Gay and Lesbian Images in the Media --
Language --
Robert B. Moore, Racism in the English Language --
Irving Kenneth Zola, Self, Identity, and the Naming Question: Reflections on the Language of Disability --
Gloria Anzalda︢, How to Tame a Wild Tongue --
Ward Churchill, Let?s Spread the ?Fun? Around: The Issue of Sports Team Names and Mascots --
Violence and Social Control --
Helen Zia, Where Race and Gender Meet: Racism, Hate Crimes, and Pornography --
A. Ayres Boswell and Joan Z. Spade, Fraternities and Collegiate Rape Culture: Why are Some Fraternities More Dangerous Places for Women? --
Victor Seidler, Masculinity and Violence --
S. Pharr, Homophobia as a Weapon of Sexism --
Part III: Experiencing Difference and Inequality in Everyday Life --
Peggy McIntosh, White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences Through Work in Women?s Studies --
Ellis Cose, A Dozen Demons --
Judith Ortiz Cofer, The Story of My Body --
Barbara Cameron, ?Gee, You Don?t Seem Like An Indian From the Reservation.? --
Mitzi Uehara-Carter, On Being Blackanese --
Gregory Mantsios, Class in America: Myths and Realities --
Annie Downey, I am Your Welfare Reform --
Geoffrey Canada, Learning to Fight --
Carmen Vs̀quez, Appearances --
Robyn Ochs, Bisexuality, Feminism, Men, and Me --
Part IV: Resistance and Social Change --
Patricia Hill Collins, Toward a New Vision: Race, Class, and Gender as Categories of Analysis and Connection --
Yen Le Espiritu, Cultural Resistance: Reconstructing Our Own Images --
Trishala Deb, The Alien Nation: Debunking the Myth --
Elizabeth Martinez, Seeing More Than Black and White: Latinos, Racism, and the Cultural Divides --
Judith Lorber, Dismantling Noah?s Ark --
Audre Lorde, Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference --
Bell Hooks, Feminism: A Transformational Politic.