Rethinking the Color Line helps make sense of how race and ethnicity influence aspects of social life in ways that are often made invisible by culture, politics, and economics. . Indicates New Reading Introduction: Rethinking the Color Line: Understanding How Boundaries Shift Part I: Sorting By Color: Why We Attach Meaning To Race RACE AND ETHNICITY AS SOCIOHISTORIC CONSTRUCTIONS How Our Skins Got Their Color by Marvin Harris Racial Formations by Michael Omi and Howard Winant Theoretical Perspectives in Race and Ethnic Relations by Joe R. Feagin and Clairece Booher.
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User-friendly without sacrificing intellectual or theoretical rigor, this anthology of current research examines contemporary issues and explores new approaches to the study of race and ethnic relations. The featured readings effectively engage students by helping them understand theories and concepts. Active learning in the classroom is encouraged while providing relevance for students from all ethnic, cultural, and economic backgrounds. The fifth edition features ten new articles on such timely topics as:
• The U.S. Census’ changing definition of race and ethnicity
• Race-based disparities in health
• Racial and gender discrimination among racial minorities and women
• Being Arab and American
• How social control maintains racial inequality
• The increase in black and brown incarceration
• How racial bias may affect the use of DNA to locate suspects of crimes
• How derogatory ethnic and racial images are created and disseminated by the media
• The sexualization of African American women through the use of gender stereotypes
• The portrayal of light- and dark-skinned biracial characters
Rethinking the Color Line
- Author : Charles Andrew Gallagher
- Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
- Release Date : 1999
- Genre: Minorities
- Pages : 545
- ISBN 10 : UOM:39015050063091
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Rethinking the Color Line Book Description :A collection for an undergraduate course, providing a theoretical framework and analytical tools and discussing the meaning of race and ethnicity as a social construction. The readings are designed to require students to negotiate between individual agency and the constraints of social structure, an