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Beyond Black and White
A Reader on Contemporary Race Relations

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Race & Ethnicity
October 2016 | 488 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
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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.

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

“I really like the range of topics covered and the focus on looking at differences within groups. Chapter 8 [Unmasking Racism: Halloween Costuming and Engagement of the Racial Other] looks especially appealing in this respect. I also like the general framing of the book, and its focus on nonwhites.”

Tomás R. Jiménez
Stanford University

“I am especially happy with the inclusion of colorism, which all our students are keenly aware of from their experiences.”

Donna Martinez
University of Colorado Denver

Some excellent chapters written by scholars of color.

Dr Mark Barajas
Psychology Dept, Saint Marys Clg Of California
September 21, 2020
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Key features

?KEY FEATURES:

  • The book showcases cutting-edge research from eminent and up-and-coming scholars, many of whom are studying racial and ethnic relations from new perspectives and paradigms.
  • Thirty-two readings are organized into twelve sections that each focus on a major issue, question, or social domain.·        
  • Questions to Consider for each reading and a glossary of terms foster comprehension and understanding. 

Sample Materials & Chapters

Chapter 1

Chapter 28