PART I. AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF MINORITY GROUPS IN THE UNITED STATES 1. Diversity in the United States: Questions and Concepts Narrative Portrait: The Social Construction of Racial Identity Developing a Racial Identity - Lawrence Hill Narrative Portrait: The Cultural Sources of Prejudice Kaffir Boy - Mark Mathabane Readings Prejudice, Discrimination, and Racism - Norman Yetman Using Racial and Ethnic Concepts: The Critical Case of Very Young Children - Debra van Ausdale and Joe R. Feagin Constructing Categories of Difference - Karen Rosenblum and Toni-Michelle Travis Current Debates: Race and Sports The Dominance of Black Athletes is Genetic - Jon Entine The Argument for Genetic Differences is Deeply Flawed - Kenan Malik Debate Questions to Consider 2. Assimilation and Pluralism Narrative Portrait: Assimilation, Then and Now Choosing a Dream: Italians in Hell's Kitchen - Mario Puzo Always Running: La Vida Loca - Luiz Rodrigues Readings Divided Fates - M. Patricia Fernandez-Kelly and Richard Schauffler Fifteen Years on the Bottom Rung - Anthony DePalma Opening Faces: The Politics of Cosmetic Surgery and Asian American Women - Eugenia Kaw Current Debates: English Only? English Only Will Speed the Assimilation of Immigrants - Mauro Mujica Bilingualism Should Be Encouraged - Aida Hurtado and Luis A. Vega Debate Questions to Consider PART II. THE EVOLUTION OF DOMINANT-MINORITY RELATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES 3. The Development of Dominant-Minority Relations in Pre-Industrial America: The Origins of Slavery Narrative Portrait: A Slave's Life Life as a Slave Girl - Harriet Jacobs Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb - Henry Bibb Readings Slavery Unwilling to Die - Joe R. Feagin Jezebel and Mammy: The Mythology of Female Slavery - Deborah Gray White Current Debates: How Did Slavery Affect the Origins of African American Culture? Slavery Created African American Culture - Stanley Elkins African American Culture Was Created by an Interplay of Elements From Africa and America - William D. Piersen Debate Questions to Consider 4. Industrialization and Dominant-Minority Relations: From Slavery to Segregation and the Coming of Post-Industrial Society Narrative Portrait: The Kitchenette Death on the City Pavement - Richard Wright Readings The Meaning of Emancipation According to Black Women - Angela Davis What is Affirmative Action? - Fred L. Pincus Adolescent Masculinity, Homophobia, and Violence: Random School Shootings, 1982-2001 - Michael Kimmel and Matthew Mahler Current Debates: Affirmative Action Affirmative Action Casts Suspicions on Legitimate Black Achievement and Depicts African Americans as Incapable - Thomas Sowell Why We Still Need Affirmative Action - Orlando Patterson Debate Questions to Consider PART III. UNDERSTANDING DOMINANT -MINORITY RELATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES TODAY 5. African Americans Narrative Portrait: The Persistence of Racism Just Walk on By: A Black Man Ponders His Ability To Alter Public Space - Brent Staples The Mulatto Millennium - Danzy Senna Readings I Am Not a Racist But... - Eduardo Bonilla-Silva and Tyrone A. Forman Race and Criminalization: Black Americans and the Punishment Industry - Angela Davis The Elephant in the Living Room: The Issue of Race in Close Black/White Friendships - Kathleen Odell Korgen Current Debates: Reparations Reparations for African Americans in Historical Context - Joe R. Feagin and Eileen O'Brien Reparations Are an Idea Whose Time Has Come - Manning Marable Blood Money: Why I Don't Want Reparations for Slavery - John McWhorter Debate Questions to Consider 6. Native Americans Narrative Portrait: Native Americans' Experiences and Perspectives Lakota Woman - Mary Crow Dog Talking to the Owls and Butterflies - John Lame Deer Readings Growing Up Indian - Leonard Peltier From the Ground Up - Charon Astoyer Current Debates: Are Indian Sports Team Mascots Offensive? Indian Symbols and Mascots Are Not Offensive - S.L. Price and Andrea Woo Mascots Are Offensive - C. Richard King, Ellen J. Staurowsky, Lawrence Baca, R. Davis, and Cornel Pewewardy Debate Questions to Consider 7. Hispanic Americans Narrative Portrait: The Meaning of Macho Americanization is Tough on Macho - Rose Del Castillo Guilbault Narrative Portrait: Gender Images of Latinas The Island Travels With You - Judith Ortiz Cofer Readings Mock Spanish: A Site for the Indexical Reproduction of Racism in American English - Jane H. Hill Seeing More Than Black and White: Latinos, Racsim, and the Cultural Divide - Elizabeth Martinez Not White or Black, but In Between: Latinos and Asian Americans Expanding the Language of Colorblind Racism - Eileen O'Brien Current Debates: Is Americanization Threatened by Hispanization? How to Make an American - John Fonte Why We Shouldn't Worry About the Hispanization of the United States - Francis Fukuyama Debate Questions to Consider 8. Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Narrative Portrait: The Relocation We Were Just Japs - Joseph Kurihara Readings The Interrelationship Between Anti-Asian Violence and Asian America - Victor M. Hwang South Korean Sex Slaves in the United States and Canada - Salim Jiwa Current Debates: Asian American Success: What Are the Dimensions, Causes, and Implications for Other Minority Groups? The Success of Japanese Americans Is Cultural - Harry Kitano The Success of Chinese Americans Is Structural - Alejandro Portes and Min Zhou The Success of Asian Americans Has Been Exaggerated in Part to Criticize Other Minority Groups - Ronald Takaki Debate Questions to Consider 9. New Americans: Immigration and Assimilation Narrative Portrait: Two Stories of Immigration Life in the Enclave - Ho Yang Life as a Refugee - Vo Thi Tam Readings Immigrants in American Society - Philip Martin and Elizabeth Midgely Discrimination and the American Dream: The Case of Middle Eastern Americans - Amir Marvasti and Karyn D. McKinney Globalization and Its Mal(e)contents: The Gendered Moral and Political Economy of Terrorism - Michael S. Kimmel Current Debates: Is Immigration Harmful or Helpful to the United States? Immigration Is Harmful - Peter Brimelow Immigration Is Not Harmful - Reynolds Farley We Need to Reframe the Immigration Debate - George Borjas Debate Questions to Consider 10. White Ethnic Groups Narrative Portrait: Ethnicity, Prejudice, and the Irish Political Machine Shadow of the Past - David Gray Readings How Jews Became White - Karen Brodkin White Privilege and Male Privilege - Peggy McIntosh Euphemized Racism: Moral qua Racial Boundaries - Michele Lamont Current Debates: The Racial Identities of Whites and Blacks The Need to Understand Whiteness - Richard Dyer Symbolic and Involuntary Ethnicity - Mary Waters Debate Questions to Consider PART IV. CONCLUSIONS 11. Antiracist and Feminist Solutions The Emperor's New Clothes - Patricia Williams The Racial Preference Licensing Act - Derrick Bell The Redefinition and Subversion of Comparable Worth in New York State: We Did It Our Way - Ronnie Steinberg and Jennifer Hickman Building Connections with Antiracism and Feminism - Eileen O'Brien and Michael P. Armato Abolish the White Race by Any Means Necessary - Noel Ignatiev and John Garvey Being an Ally - Paul Kivel Commitment to Combat Racism - Judith Katz Tools for White Guys Who Are Working for Social Change - Chris Crass Discussion Questions
