pt. 1. Sorting by color: why we attach meaning to race. How our skins got their color / Marvin Harris -- Drawing the color line / Howard Zinn -- Racial formations / Michael Omi and Howard Winant -- Theoretical perspectives in race and ethnic relations / Joe R. Feagin and Clairece Booher Feagin -- Racialized social system approach to racism / Eduardo Bonilla-Silva -- An overview of trends in social and economic well-being, by race / Rebecca M. Blank -- The color of health in the United States -- David R. Williams and Chiquita Collins -- Transformative assets, the racial wealth gap and the American dream / Thomas M. Shapiro -- pt. 2. Race as chameleon: how the idea of race changes over time and place. Placing race in context / Clara E. Rodriguez and Hector Cordero-Guzman -- A tour of Indian people and Indian lands / David E. Wilkins -- Asian American panethnicity: bridging institutions and identities / Yen Le Espiritu -- Beyond black and white: remaking race in America / Jennifer Lee and Frank D. Bean -- Color blind privilege: the social and political functions of erasing the color line in post-race America / Charles A. Gallagher -- The ideology of colorblindness / Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres -- The possibility of a new racial hierarchy in the twenty-first-century United States / Herbert J. Gans -- pt. 2. Prejudice, discrimination and racism understanding racism. Race prejudice as a sense of group position / Herbert Blumer -- Discrimination and the American creed / Robert K. Merton -- Race and civil rights pre-September 11, 2001: the targeting of Arabs and Muslims / Susan M. Akram and Kevin R. Johnson -- The possessive investment in whiteness: racialized social democracy / George Lipsitz -- The continuing significance of race: antiblack discrimination in public places / Joe R. Feagin -- Residential segregation and neighborhood conditions in U.S. metropolitan areas / Douglas S. Massey -- The code of the streets / Elijah Anderson -- Environmental justice in the 21st century: race still matters / Robert D. Bullard -- Savage inequalities / Jonathan Kozol -- Why are there no supermarkets in my neighborhood?: the long search for fresh fruit, produce and healthy food / Shannon N. Zenk (et.al) -- Racialized opportunity in social institutions race and criminal justice: oxymoron or an American tragedy. No equal justice: the color of punishment / David Cole -- Race and criminalization: Black Americans and the punishment industry / Angela Y. Davis -- ...And the poor get prison / Jeffrey Reiman -- The mark of a criminal record / Devah Pager -- Kristin v. Aisha; Brad v. Rasheed: what's in a name and how it affects getting a job / Amy Braverman -- When the melting pot boils over: the Irish, Jews, Blacks and Koreans of New York / Roger Waldinger -- There's no shame in my game: status and stigma Among Harlem's working poor / Katherine S. Newman and Catherine Ellis -- Sweatshops in Sunset Park: a variation of the late twentieth-century Chinese garment shops in New York City / Xiaolan Bao -- Hispanics in the American south and the transformation of the poultry industry / William Kandel and Emilio A. Parrado -- Broadcast news portrayal of minorities: accuracy in reporting / Roger D. Klein and Stacy Naccarato -- Television and the politics of representation / Justin Lewis and Sut Jhally -- Distorted reality: Hispanic characters in TV entertainment / S. Robert Lichter and Daniel R. Amundson -- Winnebagos, Cherokees, Apaches, and Dakotas: the persistence of stereotyping of American Indians in American advertising brands / Debra Merskin -- Sport in America: the new racial stereotypes / Richard E. Lapchick -- How America's complexion changes race, ethnicity, and immigration. The melting pot and the color line / Stephen Steinberg -- The changing face of America: immigration, race/ethnicity, and social mobility / Min Zhou -- The Arab immigrant experience / Michael W. Suleiman -- Ethnic and racial identities of second-generation Black immigrants in New York City / Mary C. Waters -- Captain Kirk kisses Lieutenant Uhura: interracial intimacies-the view from Hollywood / Randall Kennedy -- Discovering racial borders / Heather M. Dalmage -- The changing face of America: intermarriage and the mixed race movement / Frank Wu -- Ten truths of interracial marriage / Maria Root -- Ten simple things you can do to improve race relations / Charles A. Gallagher