Rethinking the Color Line

Readings in Race and Ethnicity

Charles A. Gallagher

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781071834213
• eBook ISBN: 9781071834220
• Edition: 7
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Minority Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

Rethinking the Color Line helps make sense of how race and ethnicity influence aspects of social life in ways that are often made invisible by culture, politics, and economics. Charles A. Gallagher has assembled a collection of readings that are theoretically informed and empirically grounded to explain the dynamics of race and ethnicity in the United States. Students will be equipped to confidently navigate the issues of race and ethnicity, examine its contradictions, and gain a comprehensive understanding of how race and ethnic relations are embedded in the institutions that structure their lives.

User-friendly without sacrificing intellectual or theoretical rigor, the Seventh Edition has been thoroughly updated to reflect the current debates and the state of contemporary U.S race relations.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Acknowledgements
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Brief Contents
• Preface
• About the Editor
• Introduction Rethinking the Color Line: Understanding How Boundaries Shift
• Part I Sorting by Color: Why We Attach Meaning to Race
• Race And Ethnicity: Sociohistoric Constructions
• 1 How Our Skins Got Their Color
• 2 Drawing the Color Line
• 3 Our Democracy’s Founding Ideals were False when they were Written. Black Americans have Fought to Make them True
• 4 Racial Formations
• 5 Race and Ethnicity in America
• 6 Racialized Social System Approach to Racism
• Race and Ethnicity: Contemporary Socioeconomic Trends
• 7 Why are Blacks Dying at Higher Rates From COVID-19?
• 8 Racism and Health
• 9 The Roots of the Widening Racial Wealth Gap: Explaining the Black-White Economic Divide
• Race as Chameleon: How the Idea of Race Changes Over Time and Place
• 10 Defining Race: Comparative Perspectives
• 11 A Tour of Indian Peoples and Indian Lands
• 12 Panethnicity
• 13 Racialization and Muslims: Situating the Muslim Experience in Race Scholarship
• 14 Latinos and Racism in the Trump Era
• Color-Blind America: Fact, Fantasy, or Our Future?
• 15 Institutional Racism Revisited: How Institutions Promote Racism Through Colorblindness
• 16 Buying Racial Capital: Skin-Bleaching and Cosmetic Surgery in a Globalized World
• 17 Post-Colorblindness?: Trump and the Rise of the New White Nationalism
• Part II Prejudice, Discrimination, and Racism
• Understanding Racism
• 18 Race Prejudice as a Sense of Group Position
• 19 Truth: Remarks on the Removal of Confederate Monuments in New Orleans
• 20 Discrimination and the American Creed
• 21 The Place of Race in Conservative and Far-Right Movements
• 22 The Cost of a Black Corpse: The Racism in the Cadaver Trade Average Value of Cadavers: $0-$30 [$881 in 2014]1
• How Space Gets Raced
• 23 A Research Note on Trends in Black Hypersegregation
• 24 Environmental Justice in the 21st Century: Race Still Matters
• 25 Race, Religion, and the Color Line (or is that the Color Wall?)
• 26 The Black-White Swimming Disparity in America: A Deadly Legacy of Swimming Pool Discrimination
• Part III Racialized Opportunity in Social Institutions
• Race and Criminal Justice: Oxymoron or an American Tragedy?
• 27 The Mark of a Criminal Record
• 28 Crack v. Heroin: How White Users Made Heroin a Public-Health Problem
• 29 The New Jim Crow
• 30 An Unjust Burden: The Disparate Treatment of Black Americans in the Criminal Justice System
• 31 Ending Mass Incarceration: Six (Not So) Radical Policies for Rapid Decarceration
• How Race Shapes the Workplace
• 32 Kristen v. Aisha; Brad v. Rasheed: What’s in a Name and How It Affects Getting a Job
• 33 When the Melting Pot Boils Over: The Irish, Jews, Blacks, and Koreans of New York
• 34 Why So Many Organizations Stay White
• Race, Representations, and the Media
• 35 What’s in a Name? For Some Brands, a Racist History Primed to be Toppled
• 36 Racism and Popular Culture1
• 37 The Media as a System of Racialization: Exploring Images of African American Women and the New Racism
• 38 South Asian Characterizations in American Popular Media
• 39 Arabs and Muslims in the Media after 9/11: Representational Strategies for a “Postrace” Era
• Crazy Horse Malt Liquor and Athletes: The Tenacity of Stereotypes
• 40 Winnebagos, Cherokees, Apaches, and Dakotas: The Persistence of Stereotyping of American Indians in American Advertising and Brands
• 41 Taking a Knee
• Part IV How America’s Complexion Changes
• Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration
• 42 It’s Always Been About Exclusion
• 43 Culling the Masses: The Democratic Origins of Racist Immigration Policy in the Americas
• 44 The Melting Pot and the Color Line
• 45 Who Are the Other African Americans?: Contemporary African and Caribbean Immigrants in the United States
• 46 The Arab Immigrant Experience
• 47 Ethnic and Racial Identities of Second-Generation Black Immigrants in New York City
• Race and Romance: Blurring Boundaries
• 48 Intermarriage in the U.S. 50 Years after Loving v. Virginia
• 49 Captain Kirk Kisses Lieutenant Uhura: Interracial Intimacies—The View From Hollywood
• 50 Discovering Racial Borders
• 51 Redrawing the Color Line?: The Problems and Possibilities of Multiracial Families and Group Making
• Living with Less Racism: Strategies for Individual Action
• 52 The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
• 53 Ten Things You Can Do to Improve Race Relations
• Appendix Race by the Numbers: America’s Racial Report Card
• Credits