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Preface	p. ix
About the Editors	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Part I Race: Why It Matters	p. 7
IntroductionElizabeth Higginbotham and Margaret L. Andersen
1 A Nation of Minorities: America in 2050	p. 11
2 Talking Past One Another: Black and White Languages of Race	p. 17
3 Changing Race	p. 22
4 How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?	p. 26
5 The Importance of Collecting Data and Doing Social Scientific Research on Race	p. 31
Bonus Reading: Experiences of Differential Treatment among College Students of Color	p. 39
Part II The Social Construction of Race and Ethnicity	p. 41
IntroductionElizabeth Higginbotham and Margaret L. Andersen
6 Defining Race	p. 47
7 Planting the Seed: The Invention of Race	p. 55
8 How Did Jews Become White Folks?	p. 59
9 Systemic Racism: A Comprehensive Perspective	p. 67
10 Racial Formation	p. 74
Bonus Reading: The Racial Formation of American Indians: Negotiating Legitimate Identities within Tribal and Federal Law	p. 79
Part III Representations of Race and Group Beliefs: Prejudice, and Racism	p. 81
IntroductionElizabeth Higginbotham and Margaret L. Andersen
11 The Color Line, the Dilemma, and the Dream: Race Relations in America at the Close of the Twentieth Century	p. 87
12 Color-Blind Privilege: The Social and Political Functions of Erasing the Color Line in Post Race America	p. 96
13 Learning to Be White through the Movies	p. 101
14 Hidden Politics: Discursive and Institutional Policing of Rap Music	p. 108
15 "Playing Indian": Why Native American Mascots Must End	p. 115
Bonus Reading: The Perpetuation of Subtle Prejudice: Race and Gender Imagery in 1990s Television Advertising	p. 120
Part IV Race, Relationships, and Identity	p. 123
IntroductionElizabeth Higginbotham and Margaret L. Andersen
16 Overview of Race and Hispanic Origin: Census 2000 Brief	p. 129
17 A Hyphenated Identity	p. 136
18 Notes of a White Black Woman	p. 146
19 Tripping on the Color Line	p. 151
20 Blinded by Whiteness: The Development of White College Students' Racial Awareness	p. 156
Bonus Reading: Why Are the Black Kids Sitting Together? (Interview with author Beverly Daniel Tatum on Discrimination in Education)	p. 166
Part V The Political Economy of Race	p. 167
IntroductionElizabeth Higginbotham and Margaret L. Andersen
A Race, Citizenship, and Labor
21 Citizenship and Inequality	p. 178
22 Racism, Citizenship, and National Identity	p. 186
23 "It Must Be a Fake!": Racial Ideologies, Identities, and the Question of Rights	p. 192
24 American Indians in the United States	p. 200
25 The Silent Voices: 2000 Presidential Election and the Minority Vote in Florida	p. 206
B Immigration, Ethnicity, and Migration
26 Covering Immigration: Popular Images and the Politics of the Nation	p. 213
27 From Ellis Island to JFK: Education in New York's Two Great Waves of Immigration	p. 219
28 Immigration's Aftermath	p. 226
29 Are Asian Americans Becoming "White"?	p. 233
C Opportunity Structure, Class Formation, and Social Mobility
30 Wealth and Racial Stratification	p. 240
31 The Making of Groveland	p. 247
32 A Tale of Two Classes: The Socio-Economic Divide among Black Americans Under 35	p. 252
33 Experiencing Success: Structuring the Perception of Opportunities for West Indians	p. 260
Bonus Reading: The Living Situations of Children in Immigrant Families in the United States	p. 268
Part VI Institutional Segregation and Inequality	p. 269
IntroductionElizabeth Higginbotham and Margaret L. Andersen
A Work and Labor Markets
34 Is Job Discrimination Dead?	p. 277
35 Race and the Invisible Hand: How White Networks Exclude Black Men from Blue Collar Jobs	p. 285
36 Families on the Frontier: From Braceros in the Fields to Braceras in the Home	p. 295
37 Getting a Job in the Inner City	p. 303
B Families, Communities, and Welfare
38 The Impact of Race on Environmental Quality: An Empirical and Theoretical Discussion	p. 308
39 Welfare Reform, Family Hardship, and Women of Color	p. 314
40 Child Welfare as a Racial Justice Issue	p. 320
41 The Social Construction of the "Immoral" Black Mother: Social Policy, Community Policing, and Effects on Youth Violence	p. 326
42 Salsa and Ketchup: Transnational Migrants Straddle Two Worlds	p. 334
C Residential Segregation and Education
43 Residential Segregation and Neighborhood Conditions in U.S. Metropolitan Areas	p. 342
44 Race in American Public Schools: Rapidly Resegregating School Districts	p. 347
45 Race-Gender Experiences and Schooling: Second-Generation Dominican, West Indian, and Haitian Youth in New York City	p. 354
46 The Significance of Race and Gender in School Success among Latinas and Latinos in College	p. 361
D Social Justice and Social Control: Courts, Crimes, and the Law
47 Keeping Them in Their Place: The Social Control of Blacks Since the 1960s	p. 370
48 Watching the Canary	p. 376
49 The Uneven Scales of Capital Justice: How Race and Class Affect Who Ends Up on Death Row	p. 381
50 Detaining Minority Citizens, Then and Now	p. 385
Bonus Reading: Children of Incarcerated Parents	p. 390
Part VII Mobilizing for Change: Looking Forward and Learning from the Past	p. 391
IntroductionElizabeth Higginbotham and Margaret L. Andersen
51 The Genius of the Civil Rights Movement: Can It Happen Again?	p. 397
52 Identity and the Politics of American Indian and Hispanic Women Leaders	p. 404
53 Signs ... Signs ... Turn Visible Again: The Transformative Uses of Biography	p. 413
54 We Are All Americans! The Latin Americanization of Racial Stratification in the USA	p. 419
55 Reducing Inequalities: Doing Anti-Racism: Toward an Egalitarian American Society	p. 426
Bonus Reading: Living Wage Campaigns from a "Social Movement" Perspective: The Miami Case	p. 431
Index	p. 432