Full Description
Detailing the contemporary obstacles and battles that marginalized groups must fight, this handbook provides a comprehensive account that enables readers to understand the harmful nature of these issues and how they serve to place and keep marginalized groups at a disadvantage.
The Routledge Handbook on Marginalized Groups in the United States and their Challenges covers the belief systems, social and economic systems, political institutions, and public policies that aim to place and keep marginalized groups at a disadvantage, describing the intractable nature of these barriers, how inequality and inequity persist, why changing the status quo is so difficult, and why efforts to change the status quo seem not to bear results. The chapters in this book assess the cultural controversies and provide case studies to highlight the argument that social and economic systems, political institutions, public policies, and state governments sustain the status quo, offering essential insights into the ways that racism and sexism have pernicious effects on people of color, women, the LGBTQIA+ community, immigrants, people with disabilities, and the poor.
This volume is the most comprehensive book of its kind because of its wide-ranging interdisciplinary approach, featuring the leading voices and writers dealing with these very crucial matters. This handbook will be a standard reference for students, instructors, and researchers across sociology, political science, cultural studies, disability studies, race and ethnicity studies, and gender and sexuality studies.
Contents
Introduction, Marginalized Groups in America Continue to Be Attacked, Maruice Mangum; Part I. Existential Threats Related to the Challenges and Issues Facing Marginalized Groups in the United States, Randall D. Swain; 1. Weaving the Web of Domination: Unpacking Systemic Racism and Privilege in America, James Baldwin and Joe Feagin; 2. It's a Love/Hate Thing: Heteropatriarchy, Anti-Feminism, and the Indelibility of Misogyny, Samantha Pinson Wrisley; 3. Foundational Concepts in LGBTQIA+ Identity and Marginalization, Shameka N. Cathey, Jermome Hunt, and Maruice Mangum; 4. Why Xenophobia?, Natsu Taylor Saito; 5. Disability Policy and Emergent Issues in the 2020s: The Case of Neurodivergence and Intersectionality, Casey LaFrance, Yinka Ogunlana and Kyle Ramlow Winter Hurst-Leadicker; Part II. Structural Barriers Section Introduction, Stacy Carter; 6. The Façade of Meritocracy, Elizabeth Walker and Jerome Hunt; 7. Racial Wage Gap, Gender Wage Gap, and Income Inequality in the United States, Godpower O. Okereke; 8. Inequity in Black Land and Home Ownership:: 2020-2024, Albert Dorsey Jr.; Part III. Institutional Impediments Section Introduction, Albert L. Samuels; 9. Weakening Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Komanduri S. Murty and Johnny R. Green, Sr.; 10. Weakening Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Komanduri S. Murty and Johnny R. Green, Sr.; 11. Affirmative Action in Higher Education, Komanduri S. Murty; 12. The Road to the Pink House: How Dobbs Happened, Ray Mikell; 13. The Supreme Court's Refusal to Acknowledge Sexual-Orientation Discrimination in 303 Creative v. Elenis, Mark Satta; 14. Qualified Immunity, Bans on Recording the Police, and Penalizing Public Protests, Doris Krakrafaa-Bestman; Part IV. Public Policies, Vineeth Vijayan; 15. Laboratories of Chaos: Reproductive Health, Federalism, and Uncertainty After Dobbs, Ray Mikell; 16. We Have Been Here Before: Anti-LGBTQIA+ Laws in the United States, Jerome Hunt and Shameka N. Cathey; 17. Contemporary U.S. Immigration Policy: The Bipartisan Production of a Punitive Regime of Immigration, Linda Alvarez and Axel Montepeque; 18. Shattered Dreams and Broken Promises: The Continued Marginalization of Disabled People in the United States, Paul D. C. Bones and Emily King; Part V. Cultural Controversies: Marginalized Group Representation and Societal Backlash", Jessica S. Taghvaiee; 19. The War on Woke and Efforts to Make America White Again, Vincent Adejumo; 20. "A Tale as Old as Time:" Hollywood Representations of Marginalized Communities, Jessica F. Love and William H. Kelly III; 21. Bias-Based Bullying and Hate Crimes in Schools, Brett Lehman and Chenghui Zhang; 22. From Climate Migration to Displacement: How Social Inequities Shape Contemporary Mobility and Refugee Status, Jamie L. Palmer-Asemota and Erin Rider; Part VI. Case Studies Involving Marginalized Groups, Marcus L. Bryant; 23. Anti-DEI Collusion in Higher Education: An Example, Maruice Mangum; 24. Goon Squad of Brandon, MS, and Scorpion Unit of Memphis, TN, Anita McMurtry, Komanduri S. Murty, and Ava J. Thorpe; 25. The Disparity in Power Roles: Analyzing the Impact of Historical Race Relations on Black Lawmakers in Tennessee, Emerald Jones; 26. The Future of Choice: Examining the Intersectional Micro- and Macro-Systemic Impacts of the Overturning of Roe v. Wade, Emerald Jones; 27. Unseen and Unheard: Highlighting the Invisible Struggles of Afro-Latinos in the United States, Michelle Alexandra Bueno Vásquez; 28. Grand Slam Baseball or Grand Wizard Baseball and How White Supremacy Reigns Supreme Over the Mississippi Umpires Association, Maruice Mangum
