Women of Color in U.S. Society

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

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