Maurianne Adams is Professor Emerita, Social Justice in Education Program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her previous works include another of our bestselling textbooks Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice, 2nd Edition (4/07). She is also editor of the Routledge journal Education and Equity.

Table of Intersections

Acknowledgements

Readings for Diversity and Social Justice: A General Introduction

Section 1: Getting Started: Core Concepts for Social Justice Education

Introduction
Maurianne Adams

1 The Complexity of Identity: "Who Am I?"
Beverly Daniel Tatum

2 Identities and Social Locations: Who Am I? Who Are My People
Gwyn Kirk and Margo Okazawa-Rey

3 The Social Construction of Difference
Allan G. Johnson

4 Microaggressions, Marginality, and Oppression: An Introduction
Derald Wing Sue

5 The Cycle of Socialization
Bobbie Harro

6 Theoretical Foundations
Lee Anne Bell

Core Concepts for Social Justice Education
Maurianne Adams and Ximena Zúñiga

7 Five Faces of Oppression
Iris Marion Young

8 Intersectionality Revisited
Patricia Hill Collins and Sirma Bilge

Section 2: Racism

Introduction
Mike Funk, Rani Varghese, and Ximena Zúñiga

Context

9 Defining Racism: 'Can We Talk?'
Beverly Daniels Tatum

10 A Different Mirror
Ronald Takaki

11 This Land
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

12 The Possessive Investment in Whiteness
George Lipsitz

13 Heteropatriarchy and the Three Pillars of White Supremacy: Rethinking Women of Color Organizing
Andrea Smith

14 La consciencia de la mestiza: Toward a New Consciousness
Gloria Anzaldua

15 Patrolling Racial Borders: Discrimination Against Mixed Race People
Heather Dalmage

16 Selected Reports
National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights

Voices

17 Finding My Eye-dentity
Olivia Chung

18 Identification Pleas
Eric Gansworth

19 American Hijab: Why My Scarf Is A Sociopolitical Statement, Not A Symbol Of My Religiosity
Mariam Gomaa

20 My Tongue is Divided into Two
Quique Aviles

21 Letter to My Son
Ta-Nehisi Coates

22 My Class Didn't Trump My Race: Using Oppression to Face Privilege
Robin J. DiAngelo

Next Steps

23 Women, Race, and Racism: A Dialogue in Black and White
Andrea Ayvazian and Beverly Daniel Tatum

24 Forging El Mundo Zurdo: Changing Ourselves, Changing the World
AnaLouise Keating

25 The Personal Is Political
Richard (Chip) Smith

Section 3: Classism
Introduction
Maurianne Adams, Larissa E. Hopkins, and Davey Shlasko

Context

26 Class in America
Gregory Mantsios

27 Class Dismissed
Laura Smith and Rebecca M. Redington

28 Race, Wealth, and Equality
Melvin L. Oliver and Thomas M. Shapiro

29 What's Debt Got to Do with It?
Brett Williams

30 At the Elite Colleges
Peter Schmidt

31 Is the Near-Trillion-Dollar Student Loan Bubble About to Pop?
Sarah Jaffe

32 Students with Disabilities: Financial Aid Policy Issues
Thomas R. Wolanin

33 "Free" Labor: Past and Present Forms of Prison Labor
Whitney Benns

34 Wealth Inequality
Pew Research Center

Voices

35 Bonds of Sisterhood-Bonds of Oppression
Mary Romero

36 White Poverty: The Politics of Invisibility
bell hooks

37 The Laws That Sex Workers Really Want (TED Talk)
Juno Mac

38 Born on Third Base
Chuck Collins

39 Gentrification Will Drive My Uncle Out of His Neighborhood, and I Will Have Helped
Eric Rodriguez

Next Steps

40 How Occupy Wall Street Changes Everything
Sarah van Gelder

41 "Classism from Our Mouths" and "Tips from Working-Class Activists"
Betsy Leondar-Wright

42 Deep Thoughts about Class Privilege
Karen Pittelman and Resource Generation

43 Home Economics: The Invisible and Unregulated World of Domestic Work
National Domestic Workers Alliance

44 Charts from United for a Fair Economy

Section 4: Religious Oppression

Introduction
Maurianne Adams and Christopher MacDonald-Dennis

Context

45 America's Changing Religious Landscape
Pew Research Center

46 Examples of Christian Privilege
Sam Killerman

47 Christian Privilege and the Promotion of "Secular" and Not-So "Secular" Mainline Christianity in Public Schooling and in the Larger Society
Warren J. Blumenfeld

48 Racing Religion
Moustafa Bayoumi

49 Precedents: The Destruction of the European Jews
Raul Hilberg

50 Maps-History of Anti-Semitism
Sir Martin Gilbert

51 "Working it Out" and "See You in Court"
Diana Eck

52 Native American Religious Liberty: Five Hundred Years After Columbus
Walter R. Echo-Hawk

53 Religious Freedom Advocates Are Divided over How to Address LGBT Rights
Kelsey Dallas

54 From Pearl Harbor to 9/11: Lessons from the Internment of Japanese American Buddhists
Duncan Ryûken Williams

55 A Somali Influx Unsettles Latino Meatpackers
Kirk Semple

Voices

56 Jews in the U.S.: Rising Costs of Whiteness
Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz

57 Oral History of Adam Fattah
Amna Ahmad

Oral History of Hagar Omran
Hoda Zawam

58 Modesto-Area Athiests Speak Up, Seek Tolerance
Sue Nowicki

59 Why Are You Atheists So Angry?
Greta Christina

Next Steps

60 Creating Identity-Safe Spaces on College Campuses for Muslim Students
Na'ilah Suad Nasir, Jasiyah Al-Amin

61 Guidelines for Christian Allies
Paul Kivel

62 Critical Reflections on the Interfaith Movement: A Social Justice Perspective
Sachi Edwards

Section 5: Sexism, Heterosexism, and Trans* Oppression

Introduction
D. Chase J. Catalano, Warren J. Blumenfeld, and Heather W. Hackman

Context

63 "Night to His Day": The Social Construction of Gender
Judith Lorber

64 Feminism: A Movement to End Sexist Oppression
bell hooks

65 Patriarchy, the System: An It, Not a He, a Them, Or an Us
Allan G. Johnson

66 Privilege
Devon W. Carbado

67 He Works, She Works, But What Different Impressions They Make
Gwyn Kirk and Margo Okazawa-Rey

68 Generation LGBTQIA
Michael Schulman

69 Women & LGBT People Under Attack: 1930s & Now
Warren J. Blumenfeld

70 Masculinity as Homophobia: Fear, Shame, and Silence in the Construction of Gender Identity
Michael S. Kimmel

71 Overcompensation Nation: It's Time to Admit That Toxic Masculinity Drives Gun Violence
Amanda Marcotte

72 Introduction-How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States
Joanne Meyerowitz

73 The InterSEXion: A Vision for a Queer Progressive Agenda
Deepali Gokhale

74 Transmisogyny 101: What It Is and What Can We Do About It
Laura Kacere

75 Pansexual Visibility & Undoing Heteronormativity
Cameron Airen

76 Transgender Liberation
Susan Stryker

77 The Impact of Juvenile Court on Queer and Trans/Gender-Non-Conforming Youth
Wesley Ware

78 Feminism and Abolition: Theories and Practices for the Twenty-First Century
Angela Y. Davis

Voices

79 Bones
Lindy West

80 Men Explain Things to Me
Rebecca Solnit

81 Mutilating Gender
Dean Spade

82 Violence Against Women is a Men's Issue
Jackson Katz

83 Trans Woman Manifesto
Julia Serano

84 Real Men and Pink Suits
Charles M. Blow

85 Mestiza/o Gender: Notes Towards a Transformative Masculinity
Daniel E. Solis y Martinez

86 Look! No, Don't! The Invisibility Dilemma for Transsexual Men
Jamison Green

87 My Life as an Out Gay Person in Russia
Masha Gessen

Next Steps

88 Grassroots: Introduction
Winona LaDuke

89 National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health (NLIRH) Statement on Healthcare for All
National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health

90 Becoming an Ally: A New Examination
Nancy J. Evans and Jaime Washington

91 Transgender Day of Remembrance: A Day to Honor the Dead and the Living
Shelby Chestnut

92 Unbowed: A Memoir
Wangari Maathai

93 Calling All Restroom Revolutionaries!
Simone Chess, Alisson Kafer, Jessi Quizar, and Mattie Udora Richardson

94 Why I Marched on Washington-With Zero Reservations
Rinku Sen

95 Getting to Why: Reflections on Accountability and Action for Men in Gender Justice Movements
Jamie Utt

Section 6: Ableism

Introduction
Benjamin Ostiguy-Finneran and Madeline L. Peters

Context

96 Struggle for Freedom: Disability Rights Movements
Willie V. Bryan

97 Immigration, Ethnicity, and the Ugly Law
Susan M. Schweik

98 Disability Does Not Discriminate: Toward a Theory of Multiple Identity Through Coalition
Zanita E. Fenton

99 Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Leaves Scars "on the Inside," Iraq Veteran Says
Edward D. Murphy

100 Disability in the New World Order
Nirmala Erevelles

101 Disabled Behind Bars
Rebecca Vallas

102 The Silent Victims: Inmates with Learning Disabilities
Douglas P. Wilson

103 Go to the Margins of the Class: Disability and Hate Crimes
Lennard J. Davis

104 Why the Intersexed Shouldn't Be Fixed: Insights from Queer Theory and Disability Studies
Sumi Colligan

105 Students with Disabilities Frustrated with Ignorance and Lack of Services
Allie Grasgreen

Voices

106 Understanding Deafness: Not Everyone Wants to Be "Fixed"
Allegra Ringo

107 How to Curse in Sign Language
Ashley and Deborah

108 On the Spectrum, Looking Out
Jess Watsky

109 What I'd Tell That Doctor
Jason Kingsley

Next Steps

110 Toward Ending Ableism in Education
Thomas Hehir

111 Facilitating Transitions to College for Students with Disabilities from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Backgrounds
Heather A. Oesterreich and Michelle G. Knight

112 Increasing Awareness: Language,...