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Structured inequality in the United States : critical discussions on the continuing significance of race, ethnicity, and gender / edited with commentary by Adalberto Aguirre, Jr., David V. Baker.

Other author/creatorAguirre, Adalberto.
Other author/creatorBaker, David V.
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoUpper Saddle River, NJ : Prentice Hall, ©2000.
Descriptionxiv, 416 pages ; 24 cm
Subject(s)
Contents 1 Study of Stuctured Inequality in American Society 1 -- Structured Inequality in American Society 2 -- Attributing Blame for Inequality 3 -- Sociological Context for the Study of Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Inequality in the United States 4 -- Earliest of Perceptions: The Right of the Discoverer [Conqueror] / Johnson v. McIntosh 9 -- Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders: A Comment / Louis L. Knowles, Kenneth Prewitt 14 -- Nature of Oppression / Jonathan H. Turner, Royce Singleton, Jr., David Musick 22 -- Women of Color: Fighting Sexism and Racism / Nijole V. Benokraitis, Joe R. Feagin 28 -- Unwanted Sex / Stephen Schulhofer 44 -- 2 Inequality in the American Educational System 57 -- Population Change 58 -- School Segregation 59 -- Educational Segregation 60 -- Invidious Distinctions in Education 61 -- Violence and Victimization in School 61 -- Inequality in Higher Education 62 -- A Case Study of Inequality in American Education 63 -- Racism in the Deep Structure of U.S. Higher Education: When Affimative Action is Not Enough / Edna Bonacich 67 -- Hate Speech on Campus: A Practical Approach / Patrick Hogan 77 -- Racism in Academia: The Old Wolf Revisited / Maria de la Luz Reyes, John J. Halcon 83 -- American Indians in Higher Education: A History of Cultural Conflict / Bobby Wright, William G. Tierney 92 -- 3 Inequality in the American Criminal Justice System 99 -- Selective Law Enforcement 100 -- Bias in the Judicial System 102 -- Gender and Minority Status 103 -- Race and Capital Punishment 104 -- Rape, Racism and the Myth of the Black Rapist / Angela Y. Davis 107 -- Where Did Black Jurors Go? A Theoretical Synthesis of Racial Disenfranchisement in the Jury System and Jury Selection / Hiroshi Fukurai, Edgar Butler, Richard Krooth 123 -- Minority and Female: A Criminal Justice Double Bind / Coramae Richey Mann 135 -- Racism, Capital Punishment, and the U.S. Supreme Court / Adalberto Aguirre, Jr., David V. Baker 149 -- 4 Inequality in the American Family 161 -- Dimensions of Family Violence 163 -- Poverty and Family Violence 164 -- Child Victimization 164 -- Truth About Domestic Violence: A Falsely Framed Issue / R. L. McNeeley, Gloria Robinson-Simpson 168 -- Poverty and Violence Toward Children / Richard J. Gelles 178 -- Violence Toward Black Women in a Nationality Representative Sample of Black Families / Robert L. Hampton, Richard J. Gelles 190 -- Child Maltreatment Among Asian and Pacific Islander Refugees and Immigrants: The San Diego Case / Kenja Ima, Charles F. Holm 200 -- 5 Inequality in the Economic Institution 213 -- Occupational Segregation 214 -- Unemployment 216 -- Racial Divisiveness in the American Workplace 217 -- Safety in the Workplace 217 -- Child Labor in the United States 218 -- Housing Discrimination 219 -- Poverty 221 -- Black Women in the Workforce: A New Look at an Old Problem / Ernest Spaights, Ann Whitaker 226 -- Native American Unemployment: Statistical Games and Coverups / George E. Tinker, Loring Bush 234 -- Child Labor: Still With Us After All These Years / Philip J. Landrigan, Jane B. McCammon 243 -- Settlement Experience of Latinos in Chicago / John J. Betancur 250 -- Women, Welfare, Feform and the Preservation of a Myth / Susan L. Thomas 265 -- 6 Inequality in the Political Institution 280 -- Unauthorized Immigration 281 -- Affirmative Action 283 -- Homelessness 284 -- Minority Status and Medical Experimentation 284 -- Unauthorized Immigration to the United States / Thomas J. Espenshade 288 -- Violations of Human and Civil Rights on the U.S.-Mexico Border, 1995 to 1997: A Report / Michael Huspek, Roberto Martinez, Leticia Jimenez 303 -- End Game: The Rise and Fall of Affirmative Action in Higher Education. Reconfiguring Power: Challenges for the 21st Century / Anthony M. Platt 319 -- An Ethnographic Study of Homelessn Women with Children / Shirley P. Thrasher, Carol T. Mowbray 330 -- Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment / James Jones 340 -- 7 Inequality in the Cultural Community 349 -- Media and Racist Ideology 350 -- Hate Crime 352 -- Environmental Racism 353 -- Rape of Mike Tyson: Race, the Press and Symbolic Types / Jack Lule 355 -- Struggle Against Hate Crime: Movement at a Crossroads / Terry A. Maroney 370 -- Impact of Race on Environmental Quality: An Empirical and Theoretical Discussion / Raquel Pinderhughes 389 -- A Hair Piece: Perspectives on the Intersection of Race and Gender / Paulette M. Caldwell 403.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 99034388
ISBN013097403X
ISBN9780130974037

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