Understanding Inequality: The Intersection of Race/Ethnicity, Class, and Gender

Title Page......Page 2
Copyright Page......Page 5
Dedication......Page 7
Table of Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 11
Introduction......Page 16
I - HELPFLIL CONCEPTUAL TOOLS......Page 30
1 - Mysterious Power of Social Structures......Page 31
NOTES......Page 37
NOTES......Page 38
2 - “They” Are All the Same, but Each Member of My Group is Unique......Page 39
MORE THAN A PICTURE: THE INFLUENCE OF STEREOTYPES......Page 40
REFERENCES......Page 41
EDITOR’S NOTE......Page 42
NOTES......Page 43
II - EMBEDDED IDEOLOGY......Page 44
3 - Black Women and Feminism......Page 45
EDITOR’S NOTE......Page 49
NOTES......Page 50
4 - Divining Our Racial Themes......Page 51
NOTES......Page 57
EDITOR’S NOTE......Page 58
NOTES......Page 59
5 - Size 6......Page 61
EDITOR’S NOTE......Page 66
NOTES......Page 67
III - THE OTHER WEARS MANY FACES......Page 68
6 - Diversity and Its Discontents......Page 69
EDITOR’S NOTE......Page 75
NOTES......Page 76
7 - Coping With the Alienation of White, Male Students......Page 77
8 - The Second Sex......Page 81
NOTES......Page 87
IV - STRUCTURED INEQUALITY—THE INVISIBLE IRON CAGE OF CLASS......Page 89
9 - The Double-Bind of the “Working-Class,” Feminist Academic......Page 90
REFERENCES......Page 94
EDITOR’S NOTE......Page 95
NOTES......Page 97
ON WHITENESS......Page 98
HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS: RACISM AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE “OTHER”......Page 99
YOUNG ADULTS: WHITE POOR AND WORKING-CLASS MEN IN AN ECONOMIC STRANGLEHOLD......Page 100
CONCLUSION......Page 102
REFERENCES......Page 103
EDITOR’S NOTE......Page 104
NOTES......Page 105
V - STRUCTURED INEQUALITY—RACE/ETHNICITY......Page 106
11 - A Black Woman Took My Job......Page 107
NOTES......Page 110
THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS......Page 111
ETHNIC DIFFERENTIALS IN FAMILY BEHAVIOR AND LIVING ARRANGEMENTS......Page 113
FATHERHOOD, MARRIAGE, AND PARENTAL OBLIGRATIONS......Page 115
SUMMARY AND DISCUSSION......Page 117
NOTES......Page 118
REFERENCES......Page 119
EDITOR’S NOTE......Page 120
NOTES......Page 121
THE RAPID DEPLOYMENT UNIT......Page 122
THE CONSEQUENCES......Page 124
WHY?......Page 126
REFERENCES......Page 128
EDITOR’S NOTE......Page 129
NOTES......Page 130
14 - America’s Iron Curtain......Page 131
EDITOR’S NOTE......Page 135
NOTES......Page 137
15 - The Heartland’s Raw Deal......Page 138
LIFE UNDERGROUND......Page 139
“YOUR TIRED, YOUR POOR”......Page 140
EDITOR’S NOTE......Page 141
NOTES......Page 142
VI - STRUCTURED INEQUALITY-ACQUIRING GENDER......Page 144
FROM CONSTRUCTION TO MATERIALIZATION......Page 145
NOTES......Page 150
17 - Believing Is Seeing......Page 153
WHAT SPORTS ILLUSTRATE......Page 154
DIRTY LITTLE SECRETS......Page 156
REFERENCES......Page 157
NOTES......Page 160
18 - Toward Safer Societies......Page 162
BUILDING LESS VIOLENT COMMUNITIES AND FAMILIES......Page 163
NOTES......Page 169
REFERENCES......Page 170
EDITOR’S NOTE......Page 171
NOTES......Page 172
GENDER MESSAGES......Page 174
A NETWORK OF SOCIALIZING AGENTS......Page 176
CONFESSIONS OF A SMALL SAMPLE OF COLLEGE STUDENTS......Page 177
REFERENCES......Page 178
20 - Hormonal Hurricanes......Page 179
LIFTING THE SHADOW TOWARD AN UNDERSTANDING OF MENSTRUATION AND BEHAVIOR......Page 181
NOTES......Page 186
NOTES......Page 188
VII - CORPORATE GATEKEEPING......Page 190
THE GLASS CEILING AS A WALL OF WORDS......Page 191
THE DRAGON LADY......Page 192
THE IMAGE OF AUTHORITY......Page 193
CREATING AUTHORITY AS A PROFESSOR......Page 194
EDITOR’S NOTE......Page 198
NOTES......Page 199
22 - Women in the Power Elite......Page 201
NOTES......Page 205
EDITOR’S NOTE......Page 206
NOTES......Page 207
METHODOLOGY......Page 208
IDEOLOGY AT WORK: ELITE MEN’S PERSPECTIVES......Page 209
SUCCESS FROM THE STANDPOINT OF ELITE WOMEN......Page 211
Male-Dominated Networks......Page 212
WOMEN’S SURVIVAL STRATEGIES AT THE TOP......Page 213
CONCLUSIONS......Page 214
REFERENCES......Page 215
NOTES......Page 216
24 - Invisible Women......Page 218
NOTES......Page 220
VIII - WOMEN’S EQUALITY......Page 222
25 - Women against Women......Page 223
PRIVILEGE AND POWER......Page 224
NOTES......Page 233
EDITOR’S NOTE......Page 236
NOTES......Page 237
26 - Where the Girls Are......Page 238
NOTES......Page 245
NOTES......Page 246
27 - Mating, Marriage, and the Marketplace......Page 247
GENDER AND MATING......Page 248
GENDER, MARRIAGE, AND HOUSEWORK......Page 249
STUDENTS’ VIEWS ABOUT CHILD CARE......Page 250
GENDER AND THE WORKPLACE......Page 251
CONCLUSION......Page 252
REFERENCES......Page 253
IX - THE PRICE OF DEVIANCE......Page 255
28 - The Unruly Woman......Page 256
NOTES......Page 266
REFERENCES......Page 267
EDITOR’S NOTE......Page 269
NOTES......Page 270
29 - Black Man with a Nose Job......Page 272
FAILED MEN......Page 276
HETEROSEXUAL BLACK AND LATINO MEN: COOL POSE......Page 278
HOMOSEXUAL BLACK AND WHITE MEN: PERFECT COPY......Page 280
NOTES......Page 281
REFERENCES......Page 282
REASONS FOR VISIBILITY......Page 284
SOCIALLY CONSTRUCTED IMAGES OF AGED MEN......Page 286
DISCOURSES IN THE ACADEMY......Page 287
REFERENCES......Page 288
X - PATRIARCHY AND ITS CONSEQUENCES......Page 291
32 - The Subjection of Women......Page 292
MY STORY......Page 300
IS IT RAPE?......Page 302
NOTES......Page 309
EDITOR’S NOTE......Page 315
NOTES......Page 316
34 - Clarence Thomas, Patriarchal Discourse, and Public/Private Spheres......Page 317
METHOD......Page 318
PROTECTOR......Page 319
PROVIDER AND POWER WIELDER......Page 321
PATRIARCHY, RACE, AND CLEAN HETEROSEXUALITY......Page 322
PATRIARCHY DISCOURSE AND THE PUBLIC/PRIVATE DIVIDE......Page 323
REFERENCES......Page 325
XI - EQUALITY AND THE MILLENNIUM......Page 328
35 - How Harvard Helped Curb Title IX’s Role in Admitting Women......Page 329
EDITOR’S NOTE......Page 330
NOTES......Page 331
EDUCATION AS GATEKEEPER OR LIBERATOR? KNOWLEDGE AND FACULTY JOBS FOR WHOM?......Page 332
EDUCATION, SOCIETY, AND THE ECONOMY—SOME ENDURING RELATIONSHIPS......Page 333
DISMANTLING HIGHER EDUCATION AS WE KNOW IT: HIGHER EDUCATION CONFRONTS THE CORPORATE MODEL OF MAXIMUM PROFITS AND “LEAN AND MEAN”......Page 337
EDUCATION AS LIBERATION: TAKING IT TO THE STREETS......Page 338
REFERENCES......Page 339
EDITOR’S NOTE......Page 341
NOTES......Page 343
Epilogue......Page 345
Index......Page 346
About the Editor......Page 364