Contents Preface Xlll About the Editors XXlll About the Contributors XXIV I Shifting the Center and Reconstructing Knowledge 1 SHIFTING THE CENTER 10 1 Missing People and Others: Joining Together to Expand the Circle 10 Arturo Madrid 2 La Giiera 15 Cherrie Moraga 3 Report from the Bahamas 23 June Jordan IV Contents 4 Angry Women Are Building: Issues and Struggles Facing American Indian Women Today 32 Paula Gunn Allen 5 Oppression 37 Marilyn Frye 6 A Different Mirror 41 Ronald T. Takaki II Conceptualizing Race, Class, and Gender 56 RACE AND RACISM 71 7 Something About the Subject Makes It Hard to Name 71 Gloria Yamato 8 White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences Through Work in Women's Studies 76 Peggy McIntosh 9 From "Kike" to "JAP": How Misogyny, Anti-Semitism, and Racism Construct the "Jewish American Princess" 87 Evelyn Torton Beck 10 Is Multiracial Status Unique? The Personal and Social Experience 95 Michael C. Thornton CLASS AND INEQUALITY 100 11 Tired of Playing Monopoly? 100 Donna Langston 12 The Plight of Black Men 110 Michael Dyson Contents v 13 Are You Middle Class? 120 Barbat"a Ehrenreich 14 The Upperclass and Mothers N the Hood 123 Hol~y Sklar 15 Moving Up with Kin and Community: Upward Social Mobility for mack and White Women 134 Elizabeth Higginbotham and Lynn Weber GENDER AND SEXISM 148 16 Commonalities and Differences 148 Johnnetta B. Cole 17 Understanding and Fighting Sexism: A Call to Men 154 Pete7" Blood, Alan Tuttle, and George Lakey 18 Taking Sides Against Ourselves 161 Rosemary L. Bray 19 Masculinities and Athletic Careers 165 Michael Messner 20 Asian American Women: Not for Sale 181 Tracy Lai III Rethinking Institutions 191 WORK AND ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION 202 21 Structural Transformation and Systems ofInequality 202 D. Stanley Eitzen and Maxine Baca Zinn 22 Shortchanged: Restructuring Women's Work 207 Teresa Amott VI Contents 23 The Gap Between Striving and Achieving: The Case of Asian American Women 218 Deborah Woo 24 The Latino Population: The Importance of Economic Restructuring 227 Joan Moore and Raquel Pinderhughes FAMILIES 237 25 Our Mothers' Grief: Racial Ethnic Women and the Maintenance of Families 237 Bonnie Thornton Dill 26 Puerto Rican Elderly Women: Shared Meanings and Informal Supportive Networks 260 Melba Sanchez-Ayindez 27 Man Child: A Black Lesbian Feminist's Response 275 Audre Lorde 28 Reports from the Front: Welfare Mothers up in Arms 281 Diana Dujon, Judy Gradford, and Dottie Stevens EDUCATION 289 29 Education and the Struggle Against Race, Class, and Gender Inequality 289 Roslyn Arlin Mickelson and Stephen Samuel Smith 30 Canto, Locura y Poesia 304 Olivia Castellano 31 Reminiscence of a Post-Integration Kid: Or, Where Have We Come Since Then? 313 Gaye Williams 32 Integrating the American Mind 317 Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Contents vii THE STATE AND SOCIAL POLICY 325 33 Black Males and Social Policy: Breaking the Cycle of Disadvantage 325 Ronald L. Taylor 34 Thoughts on Class, Race, and Prison 335 Alan Berkman and Tim Blunk 35 The Vanished Native Americans 339 Cynthia Brown 36 The Brutality of the Bureaucracy 344 Theresa Funiciello IV Analyzing Social Issues 350 AMERICAN IDENTITY AND CULTURE 363 37 Beyond Racial Identity Politics: Towards a Liberation Theory for Multicultural Democracy 363 Manning Marble 38 Crimes Against Humanity 366 Ward Churchill 39 You're Short, Besides! 374 Sucheng Chan 40 Rap, Race, and Politics 381 Clarence Lusane 41 If Men Could Menstruate- 392 Gloria Stein em 42 Blame It on Feminism 394 Susan Faludi Vl11 Contents SEXUALITY 402 43 Race, Sex, AIDs: The Construction of "Other" 402 Evelynn Hammonds 44 Homophobia: Why Bring It Up? 413 Barbara Smith 45 The Beauty Myth 417 Naomi Wolf 46 Cultural and Historical Influences on Sexuality in Hispanic/Latin Women: Implications for Psychotherapy 423 Oliva M. Espin 47 ANew Politics of Sexuality 429 June Jordan VIOLENCE AND SOCIAL CONTROL 434 48 "The Mind That Burns in Each Body": Women, Rape, and Racial Violence 434 Jacquelyn Dowd Hall 49 More Power Than We Want: Masculine Sexuality and Violence 450 Bruce Kokopeli and George Lakey 50 The Police and the Black Male 456 Elijah Anderson 51 Korean Americans vs. African Americans: Conflict and Construction 461 Sumi K. Cho 52 Fraternities and Rape on Campus 470 Patricia Yancey Martin and Robert A. Hummer Contents IX V Social Change and the Politics of Empowerment 488 POLITICAL ACTIVISM: MAKING A DIFFERENCE 494 53 Growing Numbers, Growing Force: Older Women Organize 494 IVtthleen IVtutzer 54 Sharing the Shop Floor 500 Stan Gray 55 From Homemaker to Housing Advocate: An Interview with Mrs. Chang Jok Lee 515 Nancy Diao 56 A World Worth Living In 523 Roberta Praeger ENVISIONING CHANGE 532 57 Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference 532 Audre Lorde 58 Coalition Politics: Turning the Century 540 Bernice Johnson Reagan 59 Culture and Gender in Indian America 547 Rayna Green 60 Race Matters 555 Cornel West .