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Introduction. Rethinking the color line: understanding how boundaries shift
pt. 1. Sorting by color: why we attach meaning to race
How our skins got their color / Marvin Harris
Drawing the color line / Howard Zinn
Racial formations / Michael Omi and Howard Winant
Defining race and ethnicity / C. Matthew Snipp
Racialized social system approach to racism / Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
Understanding racial-ethnic disparaties in health: sociological contributions / David R. Williams and Michelle Sternthal
Transformative assets, the racial wealth gap and the American dream / Thomas M. Shapiro
Defining race: comparative perspective / F. James Davis
A tour of Indian people and Indian lands / David E. Wilkins
Asian American panethnicity: contemporary national and transnational possibilities / Yen Le Espiritu
Beyond black and white: remaking race in America / Jennifer Lee and Frank D. Bean
Color blind privilege: the social and political functions of erasing the color line in post-race America / Charles A. Gallagher
The ideology of colorblindness / Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres
The possibility of a new racial hierarchy in the twenty-first-century United States / Herbert J. Gans.
pt. 2. Prejudice, discrimination and racism
Race prejudice as a sense of group position / Herbert Blumer
Race and gender discrimination: contemporary trends / James Sterba
Discrimination and the American creed / Robert K. Merton
How does it feel to be a problem? Being young and Arab in America / Moustafa Bayoumi
The possessive investment in whiteness: racialized social democracy / George Lipsitz
Laissez-faire racism, racial inequality, and the role of the social sciences / Lawrence D. Bobo
Residential segregation and neighborhood conditions in U.S. metropolitan areas / Douglas S. Massey
The code of the streets / Elijah Anderson
Environmental justice in the 21st century: race still matters / Robert D. Bullard
Race, religion, and the color line (Or is that the color wall?) / Michael O. Emerson
Why are there no supermarkets in my neighborhood?: the long search for fresh fruit, produce and healthy food / Shannon N. Zenk (et.al).
pt. 3. Racialized opportunity in social institutions
No equal justice: the color of punishment / David Cole
The new Jim Crow / Michelle Alexander
Racialized mass incarceration: rounding up the usual suspects / Lawrence D. Bobo and Victor Thompson
The mark of a criminal record / Devah Pager
Using DNA for justice: color-blind or biased? / Sheldon Krimsky and Tania Simoncelli
Kristin v. Aisha; Brad v. Rasheed: what's in a name and how it affects getting a job / Amy Braverman
When the melting pot boils over: the Irish, Jews, Blacks and Koreans of New York / Roger Waldinger
There's no shame in my game: status and stigma Among Harlem's working poor / Katherine S. Newman and Catherine Ellis
Sweatshops in Sunset Park: a variation of the late twentieth-century Chinese garment shops in New York City / Xiaolan Bao
Hispanics in the American south and the transformation of the poultry industry / William Kandel and Emilio A. Parrado
Racism and popular culture / Danielle Dirks and Jennifer Mueller
The media as a system of racialization: exploring images of African American women and the new racism / Marci Bounds Littlefield
Black and white in movies: portrayals of Black-white biracial characters in movies / Alicia Edison and George Yancey
Winnebagos, Cherokees, Apaches, and Dakotas: the persistence of stereotyping of American Indians in American advertising and brands / Debra Merskin
Sport in America: the new racial stereotypes / Richard E. Lapchick.
pt. 4. How America's complexion changes
The melting pot and the color line / Stephen Steinberg
Who are the other African Americans? Contemporary African and Caribbean immigrants in the United States / John R. Logan
The Arab immigrant experience / Michael W. Suleiman
Ethnic and racial identities of second-generation Black immigrants in New York City / Mary C. Waters
Guess who's coming to dinner? Trends in interracial marriage over the 20th century / Roland G. Fryer Jr.
Captain Kirk kisses Lieutenant Uhura: interracial intimacies
the view from Hollywood / Randall L. Kennedy
Discovering racial borders / Heather M. Dalmage
Redrawing the color line? The problems and possibilities of multiracial families and group making / Kimberly McClain DaCosta
Policy steps toward closing the gap / Meizhu Lui [and others]
Ten things you can do to improve race relations / Charles A. Gallagher
Appendix. Race by the numbers: America's racial report card.
pt. 1. Sorting by color: why we attach meaning to race
How our skins got their color / Marvin Harris
Drawing the color line / Howard Zinn
Racial formations / Michael Omi and Howard Winant
Defining race and ethnicity / C. Matthew Snipp
Racialized social system approach to racism / Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
Understanding racial-ethnic disparaties in health: sociological contributions / David R. Williams and Michelle Sternthal
Transformative assets, the racial wealth gap and the American dream / Thomas M. Shapiro
Defining race: comparative perspective / F. James Davis
A tour of Indian people and Indian lands / David E. Wilkins
Asian American panethnicity: contemporary national and transnational possibilities / Yen Le Espiritu
Beyond black and white: remaking race in America / Jennifer Lee and Frank D. Bean
Color blind privilege: the social and political functions of erasing the color line in post-race America / Charles A. Gallagher
The ideology of colorblindness / Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres
The possibility of a new racial hierarchy in the twenty-first-century United States / Herbert J. Gans.
pt. 2. Prejudice, discrimination and racism
Race prejudice as a sense of group position / Herbert Blumer
Race and gender discrimination: contemporary trends / James Sterba
Discrimination and the American creed / Robert K. Merton
How does it feel to be a problem? Being young and Arab in America / Moustafa Bayoumi
The possessive investment in whiteness: racialized social democracy / George Lipsitz
Laissez-faire racism, racial inequality, and the role of the social sciences / Lawrence D. Bobo
Residential segregation and neighborhood conditions in U.S. metropolitan areas / Douglas S. Massey
The code of the streets / Elijah Anderson
Environmental justice in the 21st century: race still matters / Robert D. Bullard
Race, religion, and the color line (Or is that the color wall?) / Michael O. Emerson
Why are there no supermarkets in my neighborhood?: the long search for fresh fruit, produce and healthy food / Shannon N. Zenk (et.al).
pt. 3. Racialized opportunity in social institutions
No equal justice: the color of punishment / David Cole
The new Jim Crow / Michelle Alexander
Racialized mass incarceration: rounding up the usual suspects / Lawrence D. Bobo and Victor Thompson
The mark of a criminal record / Devah Pager
Using DNA for justice: color-blind or biased? / Sheldon Krimsky and Tania Simoncelli
Kristin v. Aisha; Brad v. Rasheed: what's in a name and how it affects getting a job / Amy Braverman
When the melting pot boils over: the Irish, Jews, Blacks and Koreans of New York / Roger Waldinger
There's no shame in my game: status and stigma Among Harlem's working poor / Katherine S. Newman and Catherine Ellis
Sweatshops in Sunset Park: a variation of the late twentieth-century Chinese garment shops in New York City / Xiaolan Bao
Hispanics in the American south and the transformation of the poultry industry / William Kandel and Emilio A. Parrado
Racism and popular culture / Danielle Dirks and Jennifer Mueller
The media as a system of racialization: exploring images of African American women and the new racism / Marci Bounds Littlefield
Black and white in movies: portrayals of Black-white biracial characters in movies / Alicia Edison and George Yancey
Winnebagos, Cherokees, Apaches, and Dakotas: the persistence of stereotyping of American Indians in American advertising and brands / Debra Merskin
Sport in America: the new racial stereotypes / Richard E. Lapchick.
pt. 4. How America's complexion changes
The melting pot and the color line / Stephen Steinberg
Who are the other African Americans? Contemporary African and Caribbean immigrants in the United States / John R. Logan
The Arab immigrant experience / Michael W. Suleiman
Ethnic and racial identities of second-generation Black immigrants in New York City / Mary C. Waters
Guess who's coming to dinner? Trends in interracial marriage over the 20th century / Roland G. Fryer Jr.
Captain Kirk kisses Lieutenant Uhura: interracial intimacies
the view from Hollywood / Randall L. Kennedy
Discovering racial borders / Heather M. Dalmage
Redrawing the color line? The problems and possibilities of multiracial families and group making / Kimberly McClain DaCosta
Policy steps toward closing the gap / Meizhu Lui [and others]
Ten things you can do to improve race relations / Charles A. Gallagher
Appendix. Race by the numbers: America's racial report card.