Race in Society

Margaret L. Andersen is the Edward F. and Elizabeth Goodman Rosenberg Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of Delaware, where she was honored with two teaching awards. She is the former vice president of the American Sociological Association and former president of the Eastern Sociological Society.

Andersen’s Race and Society engages the classroom with contemporary social scientific scholarship in race and ethnicity and wrestles with the historically rooted and contemporarily experienced complexities of racial and ethnic inequalities across individual, interpersonal, and institutional domains, all while pointing students toward racial justice.

• PrefaceDilemma or Dream? The Quagmire of Race in America A Note on LanguageOrganization of the BookPedagogical Features of Race in Society New to the Second Edition Chapter-by-Chapter Changes Instructor and Student ResourcesAcknowledgments About the AuthorPART I THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF RACECHAPTER 1 Race: A Thoroughly Social Idea A Simple Experiment: Changing Your Race The One-Drop Rule The Myth of Biological Race Race: A Modern Idea Who Counts? Racial Classification Systems Defining Race and Ethnicity: Intersecting Ideas The Many Meanings of Race Race Is a Process, Not a Thing: Racial Formation Conclusion CHAPTER 2 What Do You Think? Prejudice, Racism, and Color BlindnessThe Social Dynamics of Prejudice Defining Prejudice Studying Prejudice: Its Origins The Correlates and Consequences of Prejudice The Harm of Stereotypes Implicit Bias The Prejudice-Discrimination Link Polling for Prejudice: Have Attitudes Changed? Racism and Its Many Forms Racism and Power Laissez-Faire Racism “Gee, I Never Think of You as . . .”: Color-Blind Racism Conclusion CHAPTER 3 Representing Race: Popular Culture and the Media The Power of Culture: Cultural Racism, Stereotypes, and Controlling Images Surrounded by Stereotypes Objectifying “Others” through Controlling Images Echoes of the Past Who Sees What? Television Film Video Games News The Internet Race and Representation Race and Criminalization Sexualizing Women of Color Making People Other: The Alien NarrativeIsn’t All in Good Fun? Markets, Makers, and Money: The Media Constructs Race Race, Resistance, and Alternative Visions Conclusion CHAPTER 4 Who Do You Think You Are? Racial Identities and RelationshipsWho Am I? Racial Identities in a Racialized Society Individuals in Society: The Formation of Identity Racial Identity: A Sense of BelongingBorders and Binaries: The Complexities of Multiracial Identity Navigating Racial and Ethnic Borders Out of Many, One: Panethnic IdentitiesWho’s White, and Why Does It Matter? Whiteness and White Privilege White Privilege and the Invisible Backpack White Fragility: A Response to Racism The Consequences of Color: Colorism It’s the Little Things that Count: Racial Microaggressions Who Do You Know? Interracial Relationships Conclusion PART II UNDERSTANDING RACIAL STRATIFICATIONCHAPTER 5 Diverse Histories/Common Threads: Race and Ethnicity Build a Nation Land of the Free, Home of Native AmericansThe Peculiar Institution: Slavery and Its Aftermath Annexing the Southwest: The Mexican American Experience Opening the Nation’s Doors—and Slamming Them Closed Chinese Americans Japanese Americans Waves of Whiteness: European Immigration Immigration Now: Changing the Face of the Nation Conclusion CHAPTER 6 Explaining Racial Stratification: Framing the Discussion A Structural Perspective on Racial Inequality Systemic Racism The Distribution of Resources The Past Shapes the Present Accumulating Advantage and Disadvantage State Policies Make a Difference Racism at Every Level Blaming the Victim Intersecting Inequalities: Race, Class, and Gender We Made It . . . Why Can’t They? Assimilation and the American Dream The Race-Class Connection What about Culture? The Culture-Structure Debate Global Racial Inequality: Colonialism and Postcolonial Theory Conclusion PART III RACE AND SOCIAL INSTITUTIONSCHAPTER 7 Economic Inequality: Work, Class, and Poverty Income, Wealth, and Race Income Inequality Race, Wealth, and DebtGrowing Inequality and Economic Restructuring: Toxic for People of Color Race and the Workplace Occupational Segregation Unemployment and Joblessness The Immigrant Labor ForceExplaining Racial Economic Inequality Overt Discrimination Human Capital A Split Labor Market Poverty: America’s Basement Measuring Poverty Who Are the Poor? Why Does Poverty Occur? The Safety Net . . . Full of Holes ConclusionCHAPTER 8 Bringing It Home: Families and Communities What Do Families Look Like? Diverse Family Forms Ties that Bind, Bonds that Break: Marriage and Divorce How Children Live Multigenerational Households and Grandparents Race and Same-Sex CouplesMythologizing Families: Racial Beliefs about Families Families in the Making: Diverse Histories of Family Formation Structuring Families: Structural Diversity Theory Caring across the Life Course Racially Controlling Images of Motherhood The Myth of the Absent Black Father Eldercare Changing Trends for Racial-Ethnic Families Loving across Racial Lines: Interracial Dating and Marriage Families and Immigration Families and Social Policy Conclusion CHAPTER 9 Race and Place: Residential and Educational SegregationLiving in Separated Spaces: Housing and Residential Segregation Chocolate Cities, Vanilla Suburbs? Changing Patterns of ResidentialSegregation How Does Segregation Happen? The Consequences of Residential SegregationLearning in Unequal Places: Schooling in a Racially Unequal Society Segregation and Resegregation: The Aftermath of Brown Our Resegregated SchoolsRace and the Achievement Gap Race and Educational Outcomes Explaining the Achievement GapSucceeding against the Odds: Race and School Success Conclusion CHAPTER 10 It Gets to You: Health Care and the Environment It Makes You Sick: Race and Health Disparities Race: A Matter of Life and Death Feeling the Burden: Stress and Hypertension Race and Risk: Alcohol and Substance Abuse Race Weighs In: Obesity and Eating Disorders Immigrant Health Why Do Racial Health Disparities Persist? The Race-Class Connection Racial Segregation and Its Connection to HealthInstitutional Racism and the Health Care SystemWe’ve Got You Covered: Health Insurance Health Care Workers Care and Cultural CompetenceUp Close and Personal: Race and Reproductive Politics Eugenics Reproductive Control and Forced Sterilization Race Beliefs and Contemporary Reproductive Politics Racism in the Air We Breathe: Environmental Racism Siting Waste Intent or Innocence? The Environmental Justice MovementClimate Change: Are We All in It Together?ConclusionCHAPTER 11 Justice and Injustice: Race, Crime, and the Criminal Justice System Race and Crime: Myths and Realities Counting Crime: The Social Construction of Racial Categories Race, Violence, and Victimization Hate CrimeImmigration and Crime: Rhetoric and Fact Criminal Injustice: Race and the Administration of Justice Policing and Social Control Getting Tough on Crime: Racial Disparities in Sentencing Mass Incarceration The Spillover Effect: Social Consequences of Mass Incarceration Death Row and Wrongful ConvictionExplaining the Race-Crime Connection Conclusion PART IV Race and Social ChangeCHAPTER 12 The Long Search for Racial Justice: Learning from the Past and Moving ForwardThe Early Road to Civil Rights The Civil Rights Movement A Movement Unfolds The Montgomery Bus Boycott Confronting Evil: Nonviolent Civil Disobedience Achievements of the Civil Rights MovementPower to the People: The Movement’s Radical Turn Striking Back: Black Power and Black Pride The Black Panther PartyThe Many Faces of Racial Liberation Contemporary Movements for Racial Justice Black Lives Matter Organizing for ChangeColor-Blind or Color-Conscious? Frameworks for Change Civil Rights and the Law Affirmative Action Antipoverty Programs The Diversity AgendaThe New Multicultural/Multiracial Society: Where Are We Going? Conclusion Glossary References Author Index Subject Index