Race, Class and Gender

Part 1 Social Class
1.1 Middle Class
Chapter 1 Middle Class in America, by Rebecca Blank
Chapter 2 Defining the Middle Class: Cash, Credentials, or Culture? by Richard V. Reeves, Katherine Guyot and Eleanor Krause

1.2 Poverty
Chapter 3 Nickel and Dimed, by Barbara Ehrenreich

1.3 Systems of Oppression
Chapter 4 The Ugly Side of America: Institutional Oppression and Race, by Renita Seabrook and Heather Wyatt-Nichol

Part 2 Race and Ethnicity
2.1 Mass Media
Chapter 5 Mass Shootings and the Media: How Race and Ethnicity Influence Media Coverage, by Emily Wheeler

2.2 Environmental Racism
Chapter 6 Geographies of Race and Ethnicity II: Environmental Racism, Racial Capitalism and State-Sanctioned Violence, by Laura Pulido
Chapter 7 Race and Environmental Justice in the United States, by Robert D. Bullard

2.3 White Privilege
Chapter 8 White Fragility, by Robin DiAngelo

2.4 Criminal Justice System
Additional Reading: The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

Part 3 Gender
3.1 Gender Fluidity
Chapter 9 Questioning Gender and Sexual Identity: Dynamic Links Over Time, by Lisa M. Diamond and Molly Butterworth

3.2 Intersectionality
Additional Reading: Moving Beyond the Pain by The Bell Hooks Institute