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Talks about the experience of women of color African Americans, Latinas, Native Americans, and Asian Americans. This work discusses the social conditions that simultaneously oppress women of color and provide sites for opposition. It uncovers similar experiences in the classroom, workplace, family, prison, and other settings.
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Contents
Preface
Foreword – Patricia Hill Collins
Part I: Introduction
1. Difference and Domination – Maxine Baca Zinn and Bonnie Thornton Dill
2. Women of Color: A Demographic Overview – Vilma Ortiz
Part II: The Constraining Walls of Social Location
3. Helpers, Enforcers, and Go-Betweens: Black Females in Elementary School Classrooms – Linda Grant
4. Hiring Immigrant Women: Silicon Valley’s "Simple Formula" – Karen J. Hossfeld
5. Inside the Work Worlds of Chicana and Mexican Immigrant Women – Denise A. Segura
6. Black Professional Women: Job Ceilings and Employment Sectors – Elizabeth Higginbotham
7. Puerto Rican Families and Social Well-Being – Ruth E. Zambrana
Part III: Social Agency: Confronting the "Walls"
8. Fictive Kin, Paper Sons, and Compadrazgo: Women of Color and the Struggle for Family Survival – Bonnie Thornton Dill
9. Black Women in Prison: The Price of Resistance – Regina Arnold
10. Cultural Survival and Contemporary American Indian Women in the City – Jennie R. Joe and Dorothy Lonewolf Miller
11. Asian American Women at Work – Esther Ngan-Ling Chow
12. "If It Wasn’t for the Women...": African American Women, Community Work, and Social Change – Cheryl Townsend Gilkes
13. Migration and Vietnamese American Women: Remaking Ethnicity – Nazli Kibria
Part IV: Rethinking Gender
14. Images, Ideology, and Women of Color – Leith Mullings
15. Different Voices, Different Visions: Gender, Culture, and Moral Reasoning – Carol B. Stack
16. Feminist Rethinking from Racial-Ethnic Families – Maxine Baca Zinn
About the Contributors
Index
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Maxine Baca Zinn is Professor of Sociology at Michigan State University.
