Women of Color in U.S. Society

Maxine Baca Zinn is Professor of Sociology at Michigan State University.

• ContentsPreface Foreword – Patricia Hill CollinsPart I: Introduction 1. Difference and Domination – Maxine Baca Zinn and Bonnie Thornton Dill 2. Women of Color: A Demographic Overview – Vilma OrtizPart 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. ZambranaPart 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 KibriaPart 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 ZinnAbout the Contributors Index

"This far-ranging and well-documented book explores race, class and gender as systems of oppression against women of color in the United States....[A]n important addition to the literature of women's studies."-Publishers Weekly "[T]his collection should be welcomed by all those concerned with issues of race, gender, and class in American society. It presents a wealth of information, data, and analysis in direct, refreshingly jargon-free language, and would make an excellent text for undergraduate courses in sociology, women's studies, and ethnic studies."-Contemporary Sociology"This book will be extremely important in the growing literature that examines the intersections of race, class, and gender stratification.... The list of contributors includes some of the most significant writers working in this field."-Margaret L. Anderson, University of Delaware