Doing race : 21 essays for the 21st century
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Doing race : 21 essays for the 21st century
W. W. Norton & Co., c2010
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Doing Race focuses on race and ethnicity in everyday life: what they are, how they work, and why they matter. Going to school and work, renting an apartment or buying a house, watching television, voting, listening to music, reading books and newspapers, attending religious services, and going to the doctor are all everyday activities that are influenced by assumptions about who counts, whom to trust, whom to care about, whom to include, and why. Race and ethnicity are powerful precisely because they organize modern society and play a large role in fueling violence around the globe.
Doing Race is targeted to undergraduates; it begins with an introductory essay and includes original essays by well-known scholars. Drawing on the latest science and scholarship, the collected essays emphasize that race and ethnicity are not things that people or groups have or are, but rather sets of actions that people do.
Doing Race provides compelling evidence that we are not yet in a "post-race" world and that race and ethnicity matter for everyone. Since race and ethnicity are the products of human actions, we can do them differently. Like studying the human genome or the laws of economics, understanding race and ethnicity is a necessary part of a twenty first century education.
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Paula M. L. Moya and Hazel Rose Markus
Doing Race: An Introduction
1. Paula M. L. Moya and Hazel Rose Markus What race and ethnicity are, how they work, and why achieving a just society requires us to take account of them
Part I: Inventing Race and Ethnicity
How race is made real through governmental policies, scientific research, and medical marketing
Defining Race and Ethnicity: The Constitution, the Court, and the Census
1. C. Matthew Snipp, Sociology
Models of American Ethnic Relations: Hierarchy, Assimilation, and Pluralism
1. George Fredrickson, History
The Biology of Ancestry: DNA, Genomic Variation, and Race
1. Marcus W. Feldman, Biology
Which Differences Make a Difference? Race, Health, and DNA
1. Barbara Koenig, Medical Anthropology
Part II: Racing Difference
The historically specific but universal processes by which difference becomes understood, via race, as inferiority
The Jew as the Original 'Other': Difference, Antisemitism, and Race
1. Aron Rodrigue, History
Knowing the 'Other': Arabs, Islam, and the West
1. Joel Beinin, History
Eternally Foreign: Asian Americans, History, and Race
1. Gordon H. Chang, History
A Thoroughly Modern Concept: Ethnic Cleansing, Genocide, and the State
1. Norman M. Naimark, History
Part III: Institutionalizing Difference
How race organizes what we know, where we live, how we are educated, who we punish
Race in the News: Stereotypes, Political Campaigns, and Market-Based Journalism
1. Shanto Iyengar, Communication and Political Science
Going Back to Compton: Real Estate, Racial Politics, and Black-Brown Relations
1. Albert M. Camarillo, History
Structured for Failure: Race, Resources, and Student Achievement
1. Linda Darling-Hammond, Education
Racialized Mass Incarceration: Poverty, Prejudice, and Punishment
1. Lawrence D. Bobo and Victor Thompson, Sociology
Part IV: Racing Identity
How race and ethnicity shape how we see, how we act, and who we are
Who Am I? Race, Ethnicity, and Identity
1. Hazel Rose Markus, Psychology
In the Air Between Us: Stereotypes, Identity, and Achievement
1. Claude M. Steele, Psychology
Ways of Being White: Privilege, Stigma, and Transcendence
1. Monica McDermott, Sociology
Enduring Racial Associations: African Americans, Crime, and Animal Imagery
1. Jennifer L. Eberhardt, Psychology
We're Honoring You Dude: Myths, Mascots, and American Indians
1. Stephanie Fryberg and Alisha Watts, Psychology
Part V: Re-presenting Reality
The singular and powerful role of the arts in challenging racial inequality by imagining alternate worlds
Another Way to Be: Women of Color, Literature, and Myth
1. Paula M. L. Moya, English
Hiphop and Race: Blackness, Language, and Creativity
1. Marcyliena Morgan and Dawn-Elissa Fischer, African and African American Studies and Africana Studies
The 'Ethno-Ambiguo Hostility Syndrome': Mixed-Race, Identity, and Popular Culture
1. Michele Elam, English
'We wear the mask': Performance, Social Dramas, and Race
1. Harry Elam, Drama
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