xxx, 562 pages : 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references

Missing people and others: joining together to expand the circle / Arturo Madrid -- La Guera / Cherrie Moraga -- Report from the Bahamas / June Jordan -- Angry women are building: issues and struggles facing American Indian women today / Paula Gunn Allen -- Oppression / Marilyn Frye -- Something about the subject makes it hard to name / Gloria Yamato -- White privilege and male privilege: a personal account of coming to see correspondences through work in women's studies / Peggy McIntosh -- The other Americans / Gabrielle Sandor -- Seeing more than black & white: Latinos, racism, and the cultural divides / Elizabeth Martinez -- Race matters / Cornel West -- Tired of playing monopoly? / Donna Langston -- The plight of black men / Michael Dyson -- The silenced majority: why the average working person has disappeared from American media and culture / Barbara Ehrenreich -- Family matters, work matters? Poverty among women of color and white women / Lisa Catanzarite and Vilma Ortz -- Moving up with kin and community: upward social mobility for black and white women / Elizabeth Higginbotham and Lynn Weber -- Commonalities and differences / Johnnetta B. Cole -- Understanding and fighting sexism: a call to men / Peter Blood, Alan Tuttle, and George Lakey -- Age, race, class, and sex: women redefining difference / Audre Lordge -- Masculinities and athletic careers / Michael Messner -- Asian American women: not for sale / Tracy Lai -- Economic restructuring and systems of inequality / Maxine Baca Zinn and D. Stanley Eitzen -- Shortchanged: restructuring women's work / Teresa Amott -- The gap between striving and achieving: the case of Asian American Women / Deborah Woo -- The Latino population: the importance of economic restructuring / Joan Moore and Raquel Pinderhughes -- Working poor, working hard / Katherine Newman -- Our mother's grief: Racial-ethnic women and the maintenance of families / Bonnie Thornton Dill

The diversity of American families / Eleanor Palo Stoller and Rose Campbell Gibson -- Are "Absent Fathers" really absent? : urban adolescent girls speak out about their fathers / Niobe Way and Helena Stauber -- Undocumented Latinas: The new "Employable Mothers" / Grace Chang -- Migration and Vietnamese American Women: remaking ethnicity / Nazli Kibria -- Can education eliminate race, class, and gender inequality? / Roslyn Arlin Mickelson and Stephen Samuel Smith -- Canto, Locura y Poesia / Olivia Castellano -- Reminiscence of a post-integration kid: Or, Where have we come since then? / Gaye Williams -- Title LX: Does help for women come at the expense of African Americans? / Craig T. Greenlee -- The first Americans: American Indians / C. Matthew Snipp -- Thoughts on class, race, and prison / Alan Berkman and Tim Blunk -- It's a family affair: Women, poverty, and welfare / Randy Albelda and Chris Tilly -- Aid to dependent corporations: exposing federal handouts to the wealthy / Chuck Collins -- The brutality of the bureaucracy / Theresa Funiciello -- Tracing the politics of affirmative action / Linda Faye Williams -- Optional Ethnicities: for whites only? / Mary Waters -- Crimes against humanity / Ward Churchill -- You're short, besides! / Sucheng Chan -- If men could menstruate / Gloria Steinem -- From "Kike" to "Jap": How misogyny, anti-semitism, and racism construct the "Jewish American Princess" / Evelyn Torton Beck -- The new politics of sexuality / June Jordan -- Where has gay liberation gone? An interview with Barbara Smith / Amy Gluckman and Betsy Reed -- The beauty myth / Naomi Wolf -- Maiden voyage: Excursion into sexuality and identity politics in Asian America / Dana Y. Takagi -- Gerring off on feminism / Jason Schultz -- More power than we want: masculine sexuality and violence / Bruce Kokopeli and George Lakey -- The police and the black male / Elijah Anderson -- Korean Americans vs. African Americans: conflict and construction / Sumi K. Cho

Fraternities and rape on campus / Patricia Yancey Martin and Robert A. Hummer -- Coalition politics: turning the Century / Bernice Johnson Reagon -- Boys and girls of (Union) summer / Marc Cooper -- From the ground up / Charon Asetoyer -- Taking multicultural, antiracist education seriously: an interview with Enid Lee / Barbara Miner -- Women of color on the front line / Celene Krauss -- Having the tools at hand: building successful multicultural social justice organizations / John Anner

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