Part I - The Social Construction of Difference: Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality 
1. Racial Formations - Michael Omi and Howard Winant 
2. The Ethics of Living Jim Crow: An Autobiographical Sketch - Richard Wright 
3. Constructing Race, Creating White Privilege - Pem Davidson Buck 
4. How Jews Became White Folks - Karen Brodkin 
5. “Night to His Day”: The Social Construction of Gender - Judith Lorber  6. The Social Construction of Sexuality - Ruth Hubbard 
7. The Invention of Heterosexuality - Jonathan Ned Katz 
*Blind Racism - Eduardo Bonilla-Silva 
*3. Internalized Racism - Keith Osajima 
4. Smells Like Racism - Rita Chaudhry Sethi 
5. Oppression - Marilyn Frye 
6. Patriarchy - Allan G. Johnson 
7. Homophobia as a Weapon of Sexism - Suzanne Pharr 
8. White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack - Peggy McIntosh 
9. Class in America—2006 - Gregory Mantsios 
Suggestions for Further Reading 

 

Part II - Understanding Racism, Sexism, Heterosexism, and Class Privilege
1. Defining Racism: “Can We Talk?” - Beverly Daniel Tatum
*2. Blind Racism - Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
*3. Internalized Racism - Keith Osajima
4. Smells Like Racism - Rita Chaudhry Sethi
5. Oppression - Marilyn Frye
6. Patriarchy - Allan G. Johnson
7. Homophobia as a Weapon of Sexism - Suzanne Pharr
8. White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack - Peggy McIntosh
9. Class in America—2006 - Gregory Mantsios
Suggestions for Further Reading

 

Part III – Beyond Black and White: Complicating Questions of Race and Ethnicity 
*1. Census Bureau Predicts Diverse U.S. Future - Genaro C. Armas 
*2. A New Century: Immigration and the US - MPI staff, updated by Kevin Jernegan 
3. Los Intersticios: Recasting Moving Selves - Evelyn Alsultany 
*4. Going Beyond Black and White, Hispanics in Census Pick ‘Other' - Mireya Navarro 
*5. Shades of Belonging: Latinos and Racial Identity - Sonya Tafoya 
6. Asian American? - Sonia Shah 
*7. The Myth of the Model Minority - Noy Thrupkaew 
8. Racial Relations Becoming More Complex Across Country - Jonathan Tilove 
*9. Inside the Jail Wars - Earl Ofari Hutchinson 
*10. “Is This a White Country, or What?” - Lillian Rubin 
*11. Personal Voices: Facing Up to Race - Carrie Ching 
Suggestions for Further Readings 

 

Part IV - Discrimination in Everyday Life 
1.The Problem: Discrimination - U.S. Commission on Civil Rights 
*2. Abercrombie Settles Class-Action Suit 
*3. Refusal to Fire Unattractive Saleswoman Led to Dismissal - Steven  Greenhouse 
*4. Best Buy Faces Allegations of Discrimination - Michael Liedtke 
*5. Where “English Only” Falls Short - Stacy A. Teicher 
*6. Women in the State Police: Trouble in the Ranks - Jonathan Schuppe 
*7. Blacks vs. Latinos at Work - Miriam Jordan 
*8. Manhattan Store Owner Accused of Underpaying and Sexually Harassing Workers -Steven Greenhouse 
*9. North Carolina State U. Is Ordered to Pay $300,000 in Sexual-Harassment Case 
*10. Muslim-American Running Back off the Team at New Mexico State -  Mathew  Rothschild  
*11. Tennessee Judge Tells Immigrant Mothers: Learn English or Else - Ellen Barry 
*12. Blacks' Presumed Guilt Hits a Little Too Close to Home - Leonard Pitts Jr. 
*13. Asian-Americans Want On-Air Apology - Chandra M. Hayslett 
*14. Goodbye to Pat Morita, Best Supporting Asian - Lawrence Downes 
*15. Arsonist Sentenced for Hate Crimes - Tom Kertscher 
*16. My Black Skin Makes My White Coat Vanish - Mana Lumumba-Kasongo 
*17. Hospital Apologizes for Keeping Black Workers from Patient's Room 
*18. Closing Doors on Americans' Housing Choices - Margery Austin Turner and  Carla  Herbig 
*19. The Segregated Classrooms of a Proudly Diverse School - Jeffrey Gettleman 
*20. College Choices Are Limited for Students from Needy Families, Report Says -  Stephen Burd 
*21. Wealthy Often Win the Race for Merit-Based College Aid - Jay Mathews 
22. Dismissing “Sexist Opinions” About Women's Place in Science - Cornelia Dean 
*23. A Park Pretty for the Rich yet Run-Down for the Poor: Prospect Park Overseers  Direct Money to Make East Side More Like the West - Michael Brick 
*24. On L.I., Raid Stirs Dispute over Influx of Immigrants - Bruce Lambert 
*25. More Blacks Live with Pollution - Associated Press 
*26. Lesbian Sues School District over Harassment - Judy Peet 
*27. Boy Punished for Talking about Gay Mom 
*28. Study: TV Night Newscasts Slight Latinos - Lynn Elber 
*29. Show Me the Clout - Shelia Gibbons 
Suggestions for Further Reading 

 

PART V - The Economics of Race, Class, and Gender in the United States 
*1. Imagine a County—2006 - Holly Sklar 
*2. U.S. Poverty Rate Was up Last Year - David Leonhardt 
*3. Wealth Gap Between Races Widens - Genaro C. Armas 
*4. Billionaires R Us - Chuck Collins and Felice Yeskel 
*5. Shhh, Don't Say “Poverty” - Bob Herbert 
6. Still at the Periphery: The Economic Status of African Americans - Julianne Malevaux 
*7. Being Black, Living in the Red: Wealth Matters - Dalton Conley 
*8. The Economic Reality of Being Latino/a in the U.S. - Meizhu Lui and others 
*9. The Economic Reality of Being Asian American - Meizhu Lui and others 
*10. Women's Pay: Why the Gap Remains a Chasm - Aaron Bernstein 
*11. The Wage Gap and Its Costs 
12. The Sons Also Rise - Paul Krugman 
13. The Education of Jessica Rivera - Kim Phillips-Fein 
*14. “Savage Inequalities” Revisited - Bob Feldman 
*15. Cause of Death: Inequality - Alejandro Reuss 
*16. Immigration's Aftermath - Alejandro Portes  
Suggestions for Further Reading 

 

PART VI - Many Voices, Many Lives: Some Consequences of Race, Class, and Gender Inequality 
*1. Civilize Them with a Stick - Mary Brave Bird (Crow Dog) with Richard Erdoes 
2. Then Came the War - Yuri Kochiyama 
3. Yellow - Frank Wu 
4. The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria - Judith Ortiz Cofer 
*5. The Arab Woman and I - Mona Fayad 
6. Suicide Note - Janice Mirikitani 
7. The Circuit - Francisco Jimenez 
*8. Crossing the Border Without Losing Your Past - Oscar Casares 
9. The Event of Becoming - Jewelle L. Gomez 
*10. This Person Doesn't Sound White - Ziba Kashef 
*11. Family Ties and the Entanglements of Caste - Joseph Berger 
12. What I Learned about Jews - Joe Wood 
13. Pigskin, Patriarchy, and Pain - Don Sabo 
*14. The Slave Side of Sunday - Dave Zirin 
*15. How to Sell Humvees to Men - Mary Beckman 
16. He Defies You Still: The Memoirs of a Sissy - Tommy Avicollo 
17. With No Immediate Cause - Ntozake Shange 
18. Requiem for the Champ - June Jordan 
*19. The Politics of Parenting - Kelly Mayhew 
*20. Myth of the Opt-Out Mom - Stephanie Coontz 
21. Out of the Closet but Not Out of Middle School - Libby Copeland 
22. More and More Young Women Chose Surgical “Perfection” - Ann Gerhart 
23. Finding My Eye-Dentity - Olivia Chung 
*24. Before Spring Break, the Anorexic Challenge - Alex Williams 
25. My First Time - Allana Allen 
26. The Case of Kowalski & Thompson: Ableism, Heterosexism, and Sexism - Joan  Griscom 
27. Lame - Joyce Avies 
28. C. P. Ellis - Studs Terkel 
Suggestions for Further Reading 

 

PART VII - How It Happened: Race and Gender Issues in U.S. Law 
1. Indian Tribes: A Continuing Quest for Survival - U.S. Commission on Human Rights 
2. An Act for the Better Ordering and Governing of Negroes and Slaves, South Carolina, 1712 
3. The "Three-Fifths Compromise" - The U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 2 
4. An Act Prohibiting the Teaching of Slaves to Read 
5. Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, Seneca Falls Convention, 1848 
6. The Antisuffragists: Selected Papers, 1852–1887 
7. People v. Hall, 1854 
8. Dred Scot v. Sanford, 1857 
9. The Emaciation Proclamation - Abraham Lincoln 
10. United States Constitution: Thirteenth (1865), Fourteenth (1868), and Fifteenth (1870) Amendments 
11. The Black Codes - W.E.B. Du Bois 
12. Bradwell v. Illinois, 1875 
13. Minor v. Happersett, 1875 
14. California Constitution, 1876 
15. Elk v. Wilkins, November 3, 1884 
16. Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896 
17. United States Constitution: Nineteenth Amendment (1920) 
18. Korematsu v. United States, 1944 
19. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 1954 
20. Roe v. Wade, 1973 
21. The Equal Rights Amendment (Defeated) 
22. Bower v. Hardwick, 1986 
23. Confronting Obstacles to Lesbian and Gay Equality - Paula L.Ettelbrick 
Suggestions for Further Reading 

 

PART VIII  Maintaining Race, Class, and Gender Hierarchies: Reproducing “Reality” 
*1. Self-Fulfilling Stereotypes - Mark Snyder 
2. Anti-Gay Stereotypes - Richard D. Mohr 
3. White Lies - Maurice Berger 
4. Am I Thin Enough Yet? - Sharlene Hesse-Biber 
*5. Advertising at the Edge of the Apocalypse - Sut Jhally 
*6. The Plutocratic Culture: Institutions, Values, and Ideologies - Michael Parenti   
7. Media Magic: Making Class Invisible - Gregory Mantsios 
*8. Still Separate, Still Unequal: America's Educational Apartheid - Jonathan  Kozol 
9. Sex and Race: The Analogy of Social Control - William Chafe 
*10. Sexual Violence as a Tool of Genocide - Andrea Smith 
11. Masked Racism: Reflections on the Prison Industrial Complex - Angela  Davis 
12. Blaming the Victim - William Ryan 
Suggestions for Further Reading 

 

PART IX: Social Change: Revisioning the Future and Making a Difference 
*1. Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference - Audre Lorde 
*2. Feminism: A Transformational Politic - bell hooks 
*3. A New Vision of Masculinity - Cooper Thompson 
4. Interrupting the Cycle of Oppression: The Role of Allies as Agents of Change - Andrea Ayvazian 
*5. Rethinking Volunteerism in America – Gavin Leonard 
6. Combatting Intentional Bigotry and Inadvertently Racist Acts - Fletcher A.  Blanchard 
7. Confronting Anti-Gay Violence - Michael Bronski 
8. Rice Shirts Make More Than Fashion Statement - Ron Nissimov 
*9. Communities Unite to Reclaim the Highway of Tears - Stephanie Woodard 
*10. The Fire This Time - Kelly Hearn 
*11. Students Confront Sweatshops - Richard Appelbaum and Peter Dreier 
12. Narrowing the Income Gap Between Rich and Poor - Michael Hout and  Samuel R. Lucas 
13. Here. Now. Do Something. - William Rivers Pitt 
Suggestions for Further Reading