Beyond Black and White: A Reader on Contemporary Race Relations
SAGE Publishing
2017
488 pages
Paperback ISBN: 9781506306940
Edited by:
Zulema Valdez, Associate Professor of Sociology
University of California, Merced
Beyond Black and White is a new anthology of readings that reflects the complexity of racial dynamics in the contemporary United States, where the fastest-growing group is “two or more races.” Drawing on the work of both established figures in the field and early career scholars, Zulema Valdez has assembled a rich and provocative collection of pieces that illustrates the diversity of today’s American racial landscape. Where many books tend to focus primarily on majority–minority relations, Beyond Black and White offers a more nuanced picture by including pieces on multiracial/multiethnic identities, relations between and within minority communities, and the experiences of minority groups who have achieved power and status within American society.
Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About the Editor
- About the Contributors
- PART I. THEORIES OF RACE AND ETHNICITY
- 1. A Critical and Comprehensive Sociological Theory of Race and Racism; Tanya Golash-Boza
- 2. The Theory of Racial Formation; Michael Omi, Howard Winant
- 3. Rethinking Racism: Toward a Structural Interpretation; Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
- PART II. THEORIES OF ASSIMILATION
- 4. Rethinking Assimilation Theory for a New Era of Immigration; Richard Alba, Victor Nee
- 5. Segmented Assimilation and Minority Cultures of Mobility; Kathryn M. Neckerman, Prudence Carter, Jennifer Lee
- PART III. RACE AND BIOLOGY REVISITED
- 6. Race as Biology Is Fiction, Racism as a Social Problem Is Real: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives on the Social Construction of Race; Audrey Smedley, Brian D. Smedley
- 7. Back to the Future? The Emergence of a Geneticized Conceptualization of Race in Sociology; Reanne Frank
- PART IV. COLOR-BLIND AND OTHER RACISMS
- 8. Unmasking Racism: Halloween Costuming and Engagement of the Racial Other; Jennifer C. Mueller, Danielle Dirks, Leslie Houts Picca
- 9. Invisibility in the Color-Blind Era: Examining Legitimized Racism against Indigenous Peoples; Dwanna L. Robertson
- PART V. BOUNDARY MAKING AND BELONGING
- 10. Who Are We? Producing Group Identity through Everyday Practices of Conflict and Discourse; Jennifer A. Jones
- 11. Illegality as a Source of Solidarity and Tension in Latino Families; Leisy Abrego
- 12. Are Second-Generation Filipinos “Becoming” Asian American or Latino? Historical Colonialism, Culture and Panethnicity; Anthony C. Ocampo
- PART VI. COLORISM
- 13. The Persistent Problem of Colorism: Skin Tone, Status, and Inequality; Margaret Hunter
- 14. The Case for Taking White Racism and White Colorism More Seriously; Lance Hannon, Anna DalCortivo, Kirstin Mohammed
- PART VII. EDUCATION AND SCHOOLING
- 15. “I’m Watching Your Group”: Academic Profiling and Regulating Students Unequally; Gilda L. Ochoa
- 16. Race, Age, and Identity Transformations in the Transition from High School to College for Black and First-Generation White Men; Amy C. Wilkins
- PART VIII. POLITICAL PARTICIPATION AND COOPERATION
- 17. Out of the Shadows and Out of the Closet: Intersectional Mobilization and the DREAM Movement; Veronica Terriquez
- 18. Racial Inclusion or Accommodation? Expanding Community Boundaries among Asian American Organizations; Dina G. Okamoto, Melanie Jones Gast
- 19. The Place of Race in Conservative and Far-Right Movements; Kathleen M. Blee, Elizabeth A. Yates
- PART IX. SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS AND WORK
- 20. Negotiating “The Welfare Queen” and “The Strong Black Woman”: African American Middle-Class Mothers’ Work and Family Perspectives; Dawn Marie Dow
- 21. Nailing Race and Labor Relations: Vietnamese Nail Salons in Majority–Minority Neighborhoods; Kimberly Kay Hoang
- 22. Becoming a (Pan)ethnic Attorney: How Asian American and Latino Law Students Manage Dual Identities; Yung-Yi Diana Pan
- PART X. HEALTH AND MENTAL HEALTH DISPARITIES
- 23. Miles to Go before We Sleep: Racial Inequities in Health; David R. Williams
- 24. Identity and Mental Health Status among American Indian Adolescents; Whitney N. Laster Pirtle, Tony N. Brown
- 25. Assimilation and Emerging Health Disparities among New Generations of U.S. Children; Erin R. Hamilton, Jodi Berger Cardoso, Robert A. Hummer, Yolanda C. Padilla
- PART XI. CRIMINALIZATION, DEPORTATION, AND POLICING
- 26. The Racialization of Crime and Punishment: Criminal Justice, Color-Blind Racism, and the Political Economy of the Prison Industrial Complex; Rose M. Brewer, Nancy A. Heitzeg
- 27. Mass Deportation at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century; Tanya Golash-Boza
- 28. The Hyper-Criminalization of Black and Latino Male Youth in the Era of Mass Incarceration; Victor M. Rios
- PART XII. INTERRACIAL RELATIONSHIPS AND MULTIRACIALITY
- 29. “Nomas Cásate”/“Just Get Married”: How a Legalization Pathway Shapes Mixed-Status Relationships; Laura E. Enriquez
- 30. I Wouldn’t, but You Can: Attitudes toward Interracial Relationships; Melissa R. Herman, Mary E. Campbell
- 31. Love Is (Color)Blind: Asian Americans and White Institutional Space at the Elite University; Rosalind S. Chou, Kristen Lee, Simon Ho
- 32. A Postracial Society or a Diversity Paradox? Race, Immigration, and Multiraciality in the Twenty-First Century; Jennifer Lee, Frank D. Bean
- Glossary
