Preface -- PART I: CONSTRUCTING DIFFERENCES -- Examining what categories are constructed, how this is done, and why such categories of difference are constructed. -- Race and Ethnicity -- 1. Racial Formations, Michael Omi and Howard Winant -- 2. Optional Ethnicities: For Whites Only?, Mary C. Waters -- 3. Learning to Be Illegal: Undocumented Youth and Shifting Legal Contexts in the Transition to Adulthood, Roberto G. Gonzales -- Social Class -- 4. The Racial Wealth Gap: Why Policy Matters, Laura Sullivan, Tatjana Meschede, Lars Dietrich, Thomas M. Shapiro, Amy Traub, Catherine Reutschlin, and Tamara Draut -- 5. Media Magic: Making Class Invisible, Gregory Mantsios -- 6. What Trump Can and Can't Do to Immigrants, David Bacon -- Sex and Gender -- 7. The Social Construction of Gender, Judith Lorber -- 8. Square Pegs: Affronting Reason, Cheryl Chase -- 9."Ain't I a Woman?": Transgender and Intersex Student Athletes in Women's Collegiate Sports, Pat Griffin -- Sexuality -- 10. Naming All the Parts, Kate Bornstein -- 11. "If You Don't Kiss Me, You're Dumped": Boys, Boyfriends and Heterosexualised Masculinities in the Primary School, Emma Renold -- 12. What's So Cultural about Hookup Culture?, Lisa Wade -- PART II: MAINTAINING INEQUALITIES: SYSTEMS OF OPPRESSION AND PRIVILEGE -- Examining what elements of social structure work to maintain systems of stratification based on constructions of difference. -- Social Institutions: Family -- 13. Why Won't African Americans Get (and Stay) Married? Why Should They?, Shirley A. Hill -- 14. Families on the Fault Line: America's Working Class Speaks About the Family, the Economy, Race, and Ethnicity, Lillian B. Rubin -- 15. Illegality as a Source of Solidarity and Tension in Latino Families, Leisy J. Abrego -- 16. Marriage and Family: LGBT Individuals and Same-Sex Couples, Gary J. Gates -- Social Institutions: Education -- 17. The Racial Achievement Gap, Segregated Schools, and Segregated Neighborhoods: A Constitutional Insult, Richard Rothstein -- 18. Civilize Them with a Stick, Mary Crow Dog and Richard Erdoes -- 19. Missing in Interaction, Myra Sadker and David Sadker -- Social Institutions: Work and Economy -- 20. Black Men and the Struggle for Work: Social and Economic Barriers Persist, James M. Quane, William Julius Wilson, and Jackelyn Hwang -- 21. Racializing the Glass Escalator: Reconsidering Men's Experiences with Women's Work, Adia Harvey Wingfield -- 22. Stressing Out the Poor: Chronic Physiological Stress and the Income-Achievement Gap, Gary W. Evans, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, and Pamela Kato Klebanov -- Social Institutions: The State and Public Policy -- 23. Jezebel at the Welfare Office: How Racialized Stereotypes of Poor Women's Reproductive Decisions and Relationships Shape Policy Implementation, N. Tatiana Masters, Taryn P. Lindhorst, and Marcia K. Meyers -- 24. Beyond Crime and Punishment: Prisons and Inequality, Bruce Western and Becky Pettit -- 25. The Treacherous Triangle: Justice, Immigration Enforcement, and Child Welfare, Seth Freed Wessler -- Social Institutions: Media -- 26. The Digital Reproduction of Inequality, Eszter Hargittai -- 27. Winnebagos, Cherokees, Apaches, and Dakotas: The Persistence of Stereotyping of American Indians in American Advertising Brands, Debra Merskin -- 28. The Prime-Time Plight of the Arab American after 9/11: Configuration of Race and Nation in TV Dramas, Evelyn Alsultany -- Language and Culture -- 29. How the Right Made Racism Sound Fair -- and Changed Immigration Politics, Gabriel Thompson -- 30. Self, Identity, and the Naming Question: Reflections on the Language of Disability, Irving Kenneth Zola -- 31. The Florida State Seminoles: The Champions of Racist Mascots, Dave Zirin -- Violence and Social Control -- 32. Climate of Fear, Southern Poverty Law Center -- 33. Ruling Out Rape, Lisa Wade, Brian Sweeney, Amelia Seraphia Derr, Michael A. Messner, and Carol Burke -- 34. Cyberbullying, School Bullying, and Psychological Distress: A Regional Ce nsus of High School Students, Shari Kessel Schneider, Lydia O'Donnell, Ann Stueve, and Robert W. S. Coulter -- PART III: EXPERIENCING DIFFERENCE AND INEQUALITY IN EVERYDAY LIFE -- Examining the impact of constructions of difference and maintaining inequalities on members of society. -- 35. Making Systems of Privilege Visible, Stephanie M. Wildman with Adrienne D. Davis -- 36. "You May Know Me From Such Roles as Terrorist #4", Jon Ronson -- 37. A Dozen Demons, Ellis Cose -- 38. The Story of My Body, Judith Ortiz Cofer -- 39. Separated by Deportation, Tram Nguyen -- 40. "Gee, You Don't Seem Like an Indian from the Reservation", Barbara Cameron -- 41. The Transgender Crucible, Sabrina Rubin Erdely -- 42. Nickel-and-Dimed On (Not) Getting by In America, Barbara Ehrenreich -- 43. Not Poor Enough, Susan Sheehan -- 44. Learning to Fight, Geoffrey Canada -- PART IV: RESISTANCE AND SOCIAL CHANGE -- Examining how people working within individual and institutional contexts transform difference from a system of inequality to a system of liberation. -- 45. Toward a New Vision: Race, Class, and Gender as Categories of Analysis and Connection, Patricia Hill Collins -- 46. Good for the 'Hood?, Anmol Chaddha -- 47. Seeing More Than Black & White: Latinos, Racism, and the Cultural Divides, Elizabeth Martinez -- 48. Reform or Transformation? The Pivotal Role of Food Justice in the U.S. Food Movement, Eric Holt-Giménez and Yi Wang -- 49. Voices of a New Movimiento, Roberto Lovato -- 50. The Next Civil Rights Movement?, Frederick C. Harris.