Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality: Selected Readings

Social Class

1. “What’s Class Got to Do with It?” by Michael Zweig
2. “Cause of Death: Inequality” by Alejandro Reuss
3. “Inequality in the Extracurriculum: How Class, Race, and Gender Shape College Involvement.” by Blake Silver
4. Colonialism, Domination, and Resistance (from “A Critical Introduction to Sociology: Modernity, Colonialism, Nation-Building, and Post[1]Modernity) by Amir Mirfakhraie
5. Rags to Riches? The Mythology of Bootstrapping in More than Meets the Eye: Illuminating the Social Issues that Impact our Everyday Lives by Silver,

Race

1. “Who is Black? One Nation’s Definition” by F. James Davis
2. “Whiteness as an “Unmarked” Cultural Category by Ruth Frankenberg
3. White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack (from Unraveling Whiteness: Tools for the Journey) by Judy Helfand, Laurie Lippin
4. Colorblindness: Challenging the Discourse of Contemporary U.S. Racism by Rita Cameron Wedding (from Ethnic America: Readings in Race, Class, and Gender By: Eric Vega, Wayne Maeda)
5. Concept and Negotiation of Whiteness (Chapter 4 from Race, Gender, Class, and Media: Studying Mass Communication and Multiculturalism, 3rd edition) by Sharon Bramlett Solomon, Meta Carstarphen

Gender

1. “The Social Construction of Gender” edited by Judith Lorber and Susan A. Farrell
2. “Masculinity as Homophobia: Fear, Shame, and Silence in Construction of Gender Identity” by Michael S. Kimmel
3. Hegemonic Masculinity by R.W Connell (from One of the Guys: Masculinity in Social Context by: Dr. Ronald Matson)
4. “Can a Man Be a Feminist?”: Moving from Dominance to Alliance 2nd ed. by M. Chad McBride (from Gender Actualized: Cases in Communicatively Constructing Realities by Erika L Kirby, M Chad Mcbride)
5. “Introduction: Trans-, Trans, or Transgender?” by Susan Stryker, Paisley Currah and Lisa Jean Moore
6. “You Don’t Just Not Get Married”: The Normalization of Gender Role Expectations by Karen L. Daas (from Gender Actualized: Cases in Communicatively Constructing Realities by: Erika L Kirby, M Chad Mcbride)

Sexuality

1. “Homophobia and Teachers’ Perceptions” by Joseph R Jones (Chapter 3 from Making Safe Places Unsafe: A Discussion of Homophobia with Teachers)
2. “The Heterosexual Questionnaire” by Martin Rochlin
3. “Dude, You’re a Fag”: Adolescent Masculinity and the Fag Discourse by C.J. Pascoe
4. “Straight Girls Kissing” by Leila J Rupp and Verta Taylor
5. Straight Acting: Gay Men, Masculinity and Finding True Love by Angelo Pezzote (from One of the Guys: Masculinity in Social Context by: Dr. Ronald Matson)