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PREFACE.Part I: WHY RACE, CLASS, AND GENDER STILL MATTER.Introduction by Margaret L. Andersen and Patricia Hill Collins.1. "Missing People and Others: Joining Together to Expand the Circle," by Arturo Madrid.2. "Chappals and Gym Shorts: An Indian Muslim Woman in the Land of Oz" by Almas Sayeed.3. "From a Native Daughter," by Haunani-Kay Trask.4. "Katrina, Black Women, and the Deadly Discourse on Black Poverty in America," by Barbara Ransby.5. "Oppression," by Marilyn Frye.6. "Label Us Angry," by Jeremiah Torres.7. "A Different Mirror," by Ronald T. Takaki.Part II: SYSTEMS OF POWER AND INEQUALITY.Introduction by Margaret L. Andersen and Patricia Hill Collins. RACE AND RACISM.8. "Seeing More than Black and White," by Elizabeth Martinez.9. "Of Race and Risk," by Patricia J. Williams.10. "Color-Blind Privilege: The Social and Political Functions of Erasing the Color Line in Post Race America," by Charles A. Gallagher.11. "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack," by Peggy McIntosh.12. "What White Supremacists Taught a Jewish Scholar About Identity," by Abby Ferber.13. "Race as Class," by Herbert J. Gans.CLASS AND INEQUALITY.14. "Shadowy Lines That Still Divide," by Janny Scott and David Leonhardt.15. "Across the Great Divide: Crossing Classes and Clashing Cultures," by Barbara Jensen.16. "The Hidden Cost of Being African American," by Thomas M. Shapiro.17. "Is Capitalism Gendered and Racialized?" by Joan Acker.18. "How the New Working Class Can Transform Urban America," by Robin D. G. Kelley.GENDER AND SEXISM.19. "Sex and Gender through the Prism of Difference," by Maxine Baca Zinn, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, and Michael Messner.20. "The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria," by Judith Ortiz Cofer.21. "The Bachelor: Whiteness in the Harem," by Rachel E. Dubrofsky.22. "Masculinities and Athletic Careers," by Michael Messner.23. "Gladiators, Gazelles, and Groupies: Basketball Love and Loathing," by Julianne Malveaux.ETHNICITY AND NATIONALITY.24. "Is This a White Country, or What?" by Lillian Rubin.25. "Optional Ethnicities: For Whites Only?" by Mary C. Waters.26. "Global Woman," by Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild.27. "The Contested Meaning of 'Asian American': Racial Dilemmas in the Contemporary U.S.," by Nazli Kibria.28. "No Lattés Here: Asian American Youth & the Cyber Café Obsession," by Mary Yu Danico and Linda Trinh Vo.SEXUALITY AND HETEROSEXISM.29. "Prisons for Our Bodies; Closets for Our Minds," by Patricia Hill Collins.30. "The Invention of Heterosexuality," by Jonathan Ned Katz.31. "Get a Life, Girls," by Ariel Levy.32. "Darker Shade of Queer," by Chung-suk Han.33. "Sell Sex for Visas: Sex Tourism as a Stepping-stone to International Migration," by Denise Brennan.Part III: THE STRUCTURE OF SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS.Introduction by Margaret L. Andersen and Patricia Hill Collins.WORK AND ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION.34. "Race, Class, Gender, and Women's Works," by Teresa Amott and Julie Matthaei.35. "Racism in Toyland," by Christine L. Williams.36. "The Indignities of Unemployment," by Kenneth W. Brown.37. "'Soft' Skills and Race," by Philip Moss and Chris Tilly.38. "The Invisible Poor," by Katherine S. Newman.FAMILIES.39. "Our Mothers' Grief: Racial-Ethnic Women and the Maintenance of Families," by Bonnie Thornton Dill.40. "Navigating Interracial Borders: Black-White Couples and Their Social Worlds," by Erica Chito Childs.41. "Straight Is to Gay As Family Is to No Family," by Kath Weston.42. "Unequal Childhoods," by Annette Lareau.43. "Domestica," by Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo.MEDIA AND POPULAR CULTURE.44. "Re-Reading 'Sex and the City': Exposing the Hegemonic Feminist Narrative," by Rebecca Brasfield.45. "Racist Stereotyping in the English Language," by Robert B. Moore.46. "Crimes Against Humanity," by Ward Churchill.47. "Media Magic: Making Class Invisible,, by Gregory Mantsios.48. "Who(se) Am I? The Identity and Image of Women
