Women of Color in U.S. Society.

Abstract

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 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