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Beeghley, Leonard. The Structure of Social Stratification in the United States, 5th ed. Boston: Pearson, 2008. The author presents a concise overview of the U.S. social classes.

Engels, Friedrich. Condition of the Working Class in England. Sydney, Australia: Read How You Want, 2007. First published as Die Lage der arbeitenden Klasse in England, in 1844. One of the significant books in world history, this analysis of people who lived in poverty (the working class of the time) is based on the author’s research and parliamentary reports.

Gilbert, Dennis. The American Class Structure in an Age of Growing In- equality, 7th ed. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Pine Forge Press, 2008. This basic text on the U.S. social class structure, filled with facts about class, grapples with the question of why social mobility in the United States is decreasing.

Grusky, David B., ed. Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender in Soci- ological Perspective. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 2008. This reader of over 100 articles and 1,000 pages examines almost every aspect of social stratification, from causes and consequences to likely futures.

McNamee, Stephen J., and Robert K. Miller. The Meritocracy Myth, 2nd ed. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009. The authors compare talent, attitude, work ethic, and character as elements of merit with social status, race, heritage, and wealth as elements of non-merit.

Newman, Katherine S., and Victor Tan Chen. The Missing Class: Portraits of the Near Poor in America. Boston: Beacon Press, 2007. The story of nine fam- ilies who live on the edge of poverty, their experiences in education, leisure, child rearing, romance, work, the police, courts, welfare, shopping, and debt.

Sherman, Rachel. Class Acts: Service and Inequality in Luxury Hotels. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2007. Based on participant observation, the author explores the relationship between workers and guests at a luxury hotel.

Sumner, William Graham. What the Social Classes Owe to Each Other. Charleston, South Carolina: BiblioBazaar, 2008. First published in 1883. Written when sociology had a largely conservative orientation, the author explains why the government should not redistribute wealth.

Van Galen, Jane A., and George W. Noblit, eds. Late to Class: Social Class and Schooling in the New Economy. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007. The authors of these articles compare the educational experi- ences of poor, working-class, and middle-class students, illustrating how education reproduces social class and suggesting ways to open educational opportunity.

Journals Journal of Children and Poverty and Journal of Poverty analyze issues that affect the quality of life of people who live in poverty.

Race, Gender, and Class publishes interdisciplinary articles on the topics listed in its title.

Chapter 8 Sex and Gender Andersen, Margaret L. Thinking about Women: Sociological Perspectives on Sex and Gender, 8th ed. New York: Allyn and Bacon, 2008. An overview of the main issues of sex and gender in contemporary society, ranging from sexism and socialization to work and health.

Brettell, Caroline B., and Carolyn F. Sargent, eds. Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective, 5th ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2008. The net is spread wide as the authors examine gender and biology, in prehistory, at home, and the division of labor, and the body, property, kinship, religion, politics, and the global economy.

Colapinto, John. As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl, P.S. New York: Harper Perennial, 2006. A detailed account of the event summarized in this chapter of the boy whose penis was accidentally burned off.

DeFrancisco, Victoria Priun, and Catherine Helen Palczewski. Communicating Gender Diversity: A Critical Approach. Los Angeles: Sage 2007. Probably the polar opposite of the Colapinto book; gender is viewed not as something that people are but as something that people do; an emphasis on how gender is constructed through communication.

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. The Man-Made World or, Our Androcentric Culture. New York: Charlton, 1911. Reprinted in 1971 by Johnson Reprint. This early

book on women’s liberation provides an excellent view of female-male relations at the beginning of the last century.

Hanson, Sandra L. Swimming Against the Tide: African American Girls in Science Education. Philadelphia, PA.:Temple University Press, 2009. Exam- ines how gender and race-ethnicity coalesce to discourage African American females from becoming scientists.

Johnson, Allan G. Privilege, Power, and Difference, 2nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2006. The author helps us see the nature and consequences of privilege and our connection to it.

McDonagh, Eileen, and Laura Pappano. Playing with the Boys: Why Sepa- rate Is Not Equal in Sports. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. A detailed history of how women have challenged men’s sports; filled with an- ecdotes and contains fascinating historical photos.

Nelson, Robert L., and William P. Bridges. Legalizing Gender Inequality: Courts, Markets, and Unequal Pay for Women in America. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. The authors analyze how organizations produce pay disparities between the sexes and how the courts legitimate them.

Siltanen, Janet, and Andrea Doucet. Gender Relations: Intersectionality and Beyond. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. The authors look at how gender differences and inequalities play out in the lives of men and women throughout the life course.

Journals These journals focus on the role of gender in social life: Feminist Studies; Gender and Behavior; Gender and Society; Forum in Women’s and Gender Studies; Gender and History; Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Femi- nist Geography; Journal of Gender, Culture, and Health; Journal of Interdis- ciplinary Gender Studies; Journal of Men’s Health and Gender; Sex Roles; and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society.

Chapter 9 Race and Ethnicity Blackmon, Douglas A. Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II. Author: Douglas Blackmon. Published Jan 2008 by Doubleday. New York: Doubleday, 2008. The author documents the horrible conditions African Americans suffered in Georgia during “post-slavery,” especially in its criminal “justice” system.

Bullard, Robert D., and Beverly Wright, eds. Race, Place, and Environmen- tal Justice After Hurricane Katrina: Struggles to Reclaim, Rebuild, and Revi- talize New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 2009. Among the other issues of race and place (geography) that the au- thors examine are the health and environment and what they call “the color of opportunity.”

Glover, Karen S. Racial Profiling: Research, Racism, and Resistance. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009. The author analyzes racial profiling in traffic stops—associating criminality with race-ethnicity—in terms of the rights of citizenship.

Higginbotham, Elizabeth, and Margaret L. Andersen, eds. Race and Eth- nicity in Society: The Changing Landscape, 2nd ed. Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth, 2008. From race–ethnicity as a social issue to its relationship to beliefs, ideology, and personal identity, the authors provide a thorough overview of this topic.

Idler, Jose Enrique. Officially Hispanic: Classification Policy and Identity. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2007. How official categories are inade- quate for representing the racial-ethnic experience.

Parrillo, Vincent N. Strangers to These Shores: Race and Ethnic Relations in the United States, 9th ed. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2009. This text reviews the experiences of more than 50 racial–ethnic groups.

Russell, James W. Class and Race Formation in North America. Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 2009. As the author explores how race–ethnicity and social class formed in Canada, Mexico, and the United States, he examines the effects and possible future consequences of NAFTA.

Schaefer, Richard T. Race and Ethnicity in the United States, 5th ed. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2009. The data and analyses of this basic text can help cut through some of the emotional blinders that often accompany this topic.

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