Getting Real About Race: Hoodies, Mascots, Model Minorities, and Other Conversations / Edition 1

by Stephanie M. McClure, Cherise A. Harris

Overview

Stephanie Mc Clure and Cherise A. Harris’s Second Thoughts on Race in the United States: Hoodies, Model Minorities, and Real Americans is an edited collection of short essays that address the most common misconceptions about race held by students (and by many in the United States, in general)—it is a "one-stop shopping" reader on the racial topics most often pondered by students and derived from their interests and concerns. There is no existing reader that summarizes the research across a range of topics in a consistent, easily accessible format and considers the evidence against particular racial myths in the language that students themselves use.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781452258904
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	07/01/2014
Edition description:	Older Edition
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	10.00(w) x 7.20(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Stephanie M. Mc Clure is a professor of sociology at Georgia College. She teaches classes on racial stratification, social theory, and the sociology of education. Her research interests are in the area of higher education, with a focus on college student persistence and retention across race, class, and gender, and a special emphasis on postcollege student experiences that increase student social and academic integration. She has published in the Journal of Higher Education, Symbolic Interaction, and The Journal of African American Studies.

Table of Contents

PART I. LAYING THE FOUNDATION
Essay 1: “But My Mother Says It’s Rude to Talk About Race!”: How and Why We Need To Discuss Race in the United States - Cherise A. Harris and Stephanie M. Mc Clure
Essay 2: “What is Racism Anyway?”: Understanding the Basics of Racism and Prejudice - Beverly Daniel Tatum
Essay 3: “They Should Get Over It!”: The End of Racial Discrimination? - Matthew W. Hughey
Essay 4: “Blacks Are Naturally Good Athletes”: The Myth of a Biological Basis for Race - Daniel Buffington
PART II. DEBUNKING INDIVIDUAL ATTITUDES
Essay 5: “If People Stopped Talking about Race, It Wouldn’t Be a Problem Anymore”: Silencing the Myth of a Color-Blind Society - Ted Thornhill
Essay 6: “Oprah, Obama, and Cosby Say Blacks Should Just Work Harder, Isn’t That Right?”: The Myth of Meritocracy - Paula Ioanide
Essay 7: “If Only He Hadn't Worn the Hoodie…”: Race, Selective Perception, and Stereotype Maintenance - Rashawn Ray
Essay 8: “Asians Are Doing Great, So That Proves Race Really Doesn’t Matter Anymore”: The Model Minority Myth and the Sociological Reality - Min Zhou
Essay 9: “But Muslims Aren’t Like Us!”: Deconstructing Myths About Muslims in America - Jen’nan Ghazal Read
Essay 10: “It’s Just a Mascot!”: The Dark Side of Sports Symbols - D. Stanley Eitzen and Maxine Baca Zinn
PART III. INSTITUTIONS, POLICIES, AND LEGACIES OF OPPRESION
Family
Essay 11: “But What About the Children?”: Understanding Contemporary Attitudes Toward Interracial Dating - Nikki Khanna
Essay 12: “Blacks Don’t Value Marriage as Much as Other Groups”: Examining Structural Inequalities in Black Marriage Patterns - Dawne Mouzon
Education
Essay 13: “Well, That Culture Really Values Education ": Culture Versus Structure in Educational Attainment - Emily Meanwell, Hersheda Patel, and Stephanie M. Mc Clure
Essay 14: “They Don’t Want to Be Integrated, They Even Have Their Own Greek Organizations”: History, Institutional Context, and “Self-Segregation” - Stephanie M. Mc Clure
Essay 15: “I Had a Friend Who Had Worse Scores Than Me and He Got Into a Better College”: The Legal and Social Realities of the College Admissions Process - Oi Yan Poon
Politics, Social Policy, and the State
Essay 16: “Black People Voted for Obama Just Because He’s Black”: Group Identification and Voting Patterns - Veronica Womack, James Bridgeforth, Bre'Auna Beasley
Essay 17: “We Don’t Have to Listen to Al Sharpton Anymore”: Obama’s Election and Triumphalist Media Narratives of Post-Racial America - Enid Logan
Essay 18: “We Need to Take Care of ‘Real Americans’ First”: Historical and Contemporary Definitions of Citizenship - Kara Cebulko
Essay 19: “If Black People Aren’t Criminals, Then Why Are So Many of Them in Prison?”: Confronting Racial Biases in Perceptions of Crime and Criminals - Sara Doude
Essay 20: “Now All the Good Jobs Go to Them!”: Affirmative Action in the Labor Market - Wendy Leo Moore
PART IV. RACE IN EVERYDAY INTERACTIONS
Essay 21: “Native American/Indian, Asian/Oriental, Latino/Hispanic…Who Cares?”: Language and the Power of Self-Definition - Brad Koch
Essay 22: “Why Do They Get to Use the N-Word But I Can’t?”: Privilege, Power, and the Politics of Language - Geoff Harkness
Essay 23: “I’m Not Racist. Some of My Best Friends Are . . . ”: The Shift From Being a “Friend” to Becoming an Ally - Cherise A. Harris

Editorial Reviews

“My students love Getting Real About Race. They are not overwhelmed with the readings and are engaged by them. The readings are rigorous and thought provoking.”

Jesus Jaime-Diaz

“Getting Real About Race hits on many of the major topics one would want to cover in an undergraduate race course. It is accessible, yet it draws on research explicitly. The questions it poses and then answers are exactly the questions that come up in class.”

Sofya Aptekar