Recognizing Race and Ethnicity: Power, Privilege, and Inequality

Preface
Acknowledgments

Part 1: Thinking About Race

1 Taking Account of Race and Privilege
Chapter Learning Outcomes
The Significance of Race
Box 1.1 Race in the Workplace: Diversity Training in Higher Education
Resisting Race
Understanding Race as a Social Construction
Box 1.2 Racial Justice Activism: Eracism
Box 1.3 Global Perspectives: The Social Construction of Race in Latin America
Demographic Shifts in the United States
Racial Identities, Racial Ideologies, and Institutional Racism
Chapter Summary
Key Terms and Concepts, Personal Reflections, Critical Thinking Questions, Essential Reading, Recommended Films, Recommended Multimedia

2 White Privilege: The Other Side of Racism
Chapter Learning Outcomes
The Social Construction of Whiteness
Box 2.1 Global Perspectives: Constructing Whiteness in Brazil
White Privilege
Box 2.2 Race in the Workplace: White Teachers Making Meaning of Whiteness
Ideologies, Identities, and Institutions
Box 2.3 Racial Justice Activism: Tim Wise on White Identity and Becoming a Racial Justice Activist
Challenging White Privilege
Chapter Summary
Key Terms and Concepts, Personal Reflections, Critical Thinking Questions, Essential Reading, Recommended Films, Recommended Multimedia

3 Science and the Sociology of Race
Chapter Learning Outcomes
Scientific Racism
The Sociology of Race
Box 3.1 Racial Justice Activism: The Activism of W. E. B. Du Bois
Current Research into the Sociology of Race
Box 3.2 Race in the Workplace: Sociologist Joe R. Feagin’s Research on Race, Racism, and Privilege
Box 3.3 Global Perspectives: Global Critical Race Feminism
Chapter Summary
Key Terms and Concepts, Personal Reflections, Critical Thinking Questions, Essential Reading, Recommended Films, Recommended Multimedia

Part 2: A Sociological History of US Race Relations

4 Emergence of the US Racial Hierarchy
Chapter Learning Outcomes
The Emergence of Race
Sociological Perspectives on Racial/Ethnic Inequality
European Contact with Native Americans
Slavery in the United States
Box 4.1 Race in the Workplace: White Slavery
Box 4.2 Racial Justice Activism: The Abolitionist Movement
The Unique Exploitation of Mexican Americans by Whites
Gender, Sexuality, and Race
Resistance
Box 4.3 Global Perspectives: The Haitian Revolution
Chapter Summary
Key Terms and Concepts, Personal Reflections, Critical Thinking Questions, Essential Reading, Recommended Films, Recommended Multimedia

5 Race Relations in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Chapter Learning Outcomes
Sociological Perspectives on Intergroup Relations
From Reconstruction to Jim Crow
Box 5.1 Racial Justice Activism: Ida B. Wells and the Antilynching Movement
Nativism and the Era of Exclusion
Box 5.2 Race in the Workplace: Sleeping Car Porters: Racial Subordination and Opportunity
Chapter Summary
Box 5.3 Global Perspectives: White Australia Policies
Key Terms and Concepts, Personal Reflections, Critical Thinking Questions, Essential Reading, Recommended Films, Recommended Multimedia

6 Race Relations in Flux: From Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter
Chapter Learning Outcomes
Sociological Perspectives on Social Movements
The Civil Rights Movement
Box 6.1 Racial Justice Activism: Bob Zellner
Box 6.2 Global Perspectives: Gandhi, Nonviolent Protest, and the End of British Rule in India
Box 6.3 Race in the Workplace: Community Action Programs: Race, Place, and Activism
Native American Activism
Mexican American and Chicano Activism
Asian American Activism
Late 20th- and Early 21st-Century Activism
Chapter Summary
Key Terms and Concepts, Personal Reflections, Critical Thinking Questions, Essential Reading, Recommended Films, Recommended Multimedia

Part 3: Institutional Inequalities

7 Education
Chapter Learning Outcomes
Sociological Perspectives on Race and Education
Box 7.1 Race in the Workplace: Investigating Whiteness in Teacher Education
A History of Race and Public Education in the United States
Box 7.2 Global Perspectives: Aboriginal Education in Australia
Contemporary Issues of Racial Inequality in Education
Box 7.3 Racial Justice Activism: Teaching Tolerance
Chapter Summary
Key Terms and Concepts, Personal Reflections, Critical Thinking Questions, Essential Reading, Recommended Films, Recommended Multimedia

8 Economic Inequality and the Role of the State
Chapter Learning Outcomes
Sociological Perspectives on Economic Inequalities
Box 8.1 Race in the Workplace: The Workplace Project Benefits Latinos
Race and Social Policy
Box 8.2 Racial Justice Activism: Operation HOPE: From Civil Rights to Silver Rights
Box 8.3 Global Perspectives: Whiteness in International Development Programs
Residential Segregation
Chapter Summary
Key Terms and Concepts, Personal Reflections, Critical Thinking Questions, Essential Reading, Recommended Films, Recommended Multimedia

9 Crime and Criminal Justice
Chapter Learning Outcomes
Sociological Perspectives on Crime
Racial Inequality in the Criminal Justice System
Box 9.1 Race in the Workplace: Diversity Training in Police Departments
Box 9.2 Racial Justice Activism: The Equal Justice Initiative
The Era of Mass Imprisonment
Linking Race and Crime in the Public Consciousness
Box 9.3 Global Perspectives: Postapartheid Police Accountability in South Africa
Chapter Summary
Key Terms and Concepts, Personal Reflections, Critical Thinking Questions, Essential Reading, Recommended Films, Recommended Multimedia

10 Race in the Cultural Imagination
Chapter Learning Outcomes
Sociological Perspectives on Race and Popular Culture
Racial Imagery in Film and Television
Box 10.1 Global Perspectives: The Effect of Television and the Dismantling of Apartheid
Box 10.2 Race in the Workplace: 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks
Racial Imagery in New Media
Subordinate Group Resistance
Box 10.3 Racial Justice Activism: Rock Against Racism
Race and Public History
Chapter Summary
Key Terms and Concepts, Personal Reflections, Critical Thinking Questions, Essential Reading, Recommended Films, Recommended Multimedia

Part 4: Contemporary Issues in Race/Ethnicity

11 Arenas of Racial Integration: Interracial Relationships, Multiracial Families, Biracial/Multiracial Identities, Sports, and the Military
Chapter Learning Outcomes
Sociological Perspectives on Racial Integration
Interracial Intimacies: Relationships, Families, and Identities
Sports and Race
Box 11.1 Global Perspectives: International Sports Boycotts of South Africa
Box 11.2 Racial Justice Activism: Athletes Against Racism
Racial Integration and the Military
Box 11.3 Race in the Workplace: Addressing Race the Army Way: Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute (DEOMI)
Chapter Summary
Key Terms and Concepts, Personal Reflections, Critical Thinking Questions, Essential Reading, Recommended Films, Recommended Multimedia

12 A Postracial Society?
Chapter Learning Outcomes
Sociological Perspectives on the Future of Race
Race, Racial Inequality, and Whiteness in the Political Sphere
Immigrants and the Racialization of Anti-Immigration Sentiment
Box 12.1 Global Perspectives: Immigration Challenges in Europe: A Failure of Multiculturalism?
Box 12.2 Racial Justice Activism: Campaign to Eliminate “the I Word”
Hate Crimes and Hate Groups
Box 12.3 Race in the Workplace: Fighting Hate — The Work of the Southern Poverty Law Center and Race Forward
Reparations
Chapter Summary
Key Terms and Concepts, Personal Reflections, Critical Thinking Questions, Essential Reading, Recommended Films, Recommended Multimedia

Glossary
References
Index