Student Affairs Reads

Spring 2008 Selection:

Readings for Diversity and Social Justice

Edited by: Maurianne Adams, Warren J. Blumenfeld, Rosie Castaneda, Heather W. Hackman, Madeline L. Peters, Ximena Zuniga

The first reader to cover the scope of oppressions in America, Readings for Diversity and Social Justice covers six thematic issues: racism, sexism, Anti-Semitism, heterosexism, classism, and ableism. The reader contains a mix of short personal and theoretical essays as well as entries designed to challenge students to take action to end oppressive behavior and to affirm diversity and racial justice. Each thematic section is broken down into three divisions: Contexts; Personal Voices; and Next Steps and Action. The selections include over 90 essays from some of the foremost names in the field-bell hooks, Cornel West, Michael Omi, Iris Marion Young, Gloria Anzaldúa, Michelle Fine, Gloria Steinem, Richard Rodriguez, Beverly Daniel Tatum, Michael Kimmel, Patricia Hill Collins and many other distinguished scholars.

Readings: Sexism

• 32 “Night to His Day’: The Social Construction of Gender” by Judith Lorber, pages 203-211
• 33 “Masculinity as Homophobia: Fear, Shame, and Silence in the Construction of Gender Identity” by Michael S. Kimmel, pages 213-219
• 34 “Which Outlaws? Or, ‘Who Was That Masked Man?’” by Kate Bornstein, pages 220-228
• 38  “Ain’t I a Woman?” by Sojourner Truth, page 241
• 39 “I’m Not Fat, I’m Latina” by Christy Haubegger, pages 242-243
• 45 “Revving Up for the Next Twenty-Five Years” by Gloria Steinem, pages 256-260

Handouts:

• Powerpoint presentation