TY - BOOK AU - Ore,Tracy E. TI - The social construction of difference and inequality: race, class, gender, and sexuality SN - 0767411676 AV - HN59.2 .S585 PY - 2000/// CY - Mountain View, Calif. PB - Mayfield Pub. KW - Cultural pluralism KW - Equality KW - Minorities KW - Social conditions KW - Social classes KW - Women KW - Gays KW - Discrimination N1 - 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 ER -