TY - BOOK AU - D'Angelo,Raymond N. AU - Douglas,Herbert TI - Taking sides: Clashing views in race and ethnicity T2 - Taking sides SN - 9781259677670 AV - E184.A1 T338 2017 PY - 2017///] CY - [Berkshire, United Kingdom] PB - McGraw-Hill Education KW - Minorities KW - United States KW - Social classes KW - Race relations KW - Ethnic relations N1 - "McGraw-Hill Education Create."; Includes internet references; Includes bibliographical references; UNIT 1. American Identity and Immigration. Issue: Do We Need a Common Identity? -- Yes. Nation or notion? / Patrick J. Buchanan -- No. What does it mean to be an 'American'? / Michael Walzer -- Issue: Are Multiculturalism and Assimilation Inevitable Components of the Emerging American Identity? -- Yes. The melting pot and the color line / Stephen Steinberg -- No. How the multicultural ideology captured America / Lawrence Auster -- Issue: Does Immigration Contribute to a Better America? -- Yes. The case for immigration : the secret to economic vibrancy / Philippe Legrain -- No. Immigration : dissolving the people / Peter Brimelow -- Issue: Do Recent Immigration Trends Challenge Existing Ideas of America's White Identity? -- Yes. Racial redistricting : expanding the boundaries of whiteness / Charles A. Gallagher -- No. What's white, anyway? / Ellis Cose -- UNIT 2. Rethinking the Color Line. Issue: Is the Obama Presidency Moving America Toward a Post-Racial Society? -- Yes. Obama, Cosby, King, and the mountaintop / Alvin Poussaint -- No. Black by choice / Melissa V. Harris-Perry -- Issue: Is the Claim of White Skin Privilege a Myth? -- Yes. White benefits, middle-class privilege / Paul Kivel -- No. The absurdity (and consistency) of white denial : what kind of card is race? / Tim Wise -- Issue: Is the Emphasis on a Color-Blind Society an Answer to Racism? -- Yes. Don't box me in / Ward Connerly -- No. Racism without racists : color-blind racism and the persistence of racial inequality in the United States / Eduardo Bonilla-Silva -- Issue: Is Racial Profiling Defensible Public Policy? -- Yes. Better unsafe than (occasionally) sorry? / Scott Johnson -- No. Restoring a national consensus : the need to end racial profiling in America / Wade J. Henderson and Karen McGill Lawson -- UNIT 3. Race Still Matters. Issue: Is Racism a Permanent Feature of American Society? -- Yes. The end of racism and other fables / Linda Greenhouse -- No. Postracialism' : do we want it? / Russell Nieli -- Issue: Is Criticism of President Obama Motivated by Racism? -- Yes. It is all still about race : Obama hatred, the South and the truth about GOP wins / Paul Rosenberg -- No. Reminder : not all Republican opposition to Obama is racist / Peter Beinart -- Issue: Are Native American Mascots Racist Symbols? -- Yes. The fight over the Redskins trademark and other racialized symbols / Sonia K. Katyal -- No. Holy war on the football field : religion and the Florida State University Indian mascot controversy / Arthur J. Remillard -- UNIT 4. The Supreme Court. Issue: Is Affirmative Action an Effective Way to Reverse Racial Inequality? -- Yes. White America's toxic ignorance : Abigail Fisher, Antonin Scalia and the real privilege that goes unspoken / Chauncey DeVega -- No. The painful truth about affirmative action / Richard Sander and Stuart Taylor, Jr. -- Issue: Is Stand Your Ground Legislation Race Neutral? -- Yes. Racial bias and 'stand your ground' laws : what the data show / Patrik Jonsson -- No. Protecting what's white : a new look at stand your ground laws / Sabrina Strings -- Issue: Should Children of Undocumented Immigrants Have a Birthright to U.S. Citizenship? -- Yes. Birthright citizenship sets America apart / Eric Foner -- No. An argument to be made about immigrant babies and citizenship / George F. Will -- Issue: Is There a Need for a Permanent Voting Rights Act? -- Yes. The more things change… / Linda Greenhouse -- No. Redistricting, race, and the Voting Rights Act / Abigail Thernstrom -- UNIT 5. Geography of Race. Issue: Is Environmental Racism a Reality? -- Yes. Environmental justice : an interview with Robert Bullard / Errol Schweizer -- No. The 'environmental racism' hoax / David Friedman -- Issue: Is the Mass Incarceration of Blacks and Latinos the New Jim Crow? -- Yes. Racism and mass incarceration in the US heartland : historical roots of the new Jim Crow / James Kilgore -- No. Racial Critiques of mass incarceration : beyond the new Jim Crow / James Forman, Jr. -- Issue: Is Gentrification Another Form of Segregation? -- Yes. On Spike Lee & hyper-gentrification / Jeremiah Moss -- No. Is gentrification all bad? / Justin Davidson -- Issue: Is Black Lives Matter an Effective Civil Rights Organization? -- Yes. The Ferguson protests worked / Julia Craven, Ryan J. Reilly, and Mariah Stewart -- No. I was a civil rights activist in the 1960s. But it's hard for me to get behind Black Lives Matter / Barbara Reynolds ER -