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Race: A Thoroughly Social Idea -- What Do You Think? Prejudice, Racism, and Colorblindness -- Representing Race: Popular Culture and the Media -- Who Do You Think You Are? Racial Identities and Relationships -- Diverse Histories/Common Threads: Race and Ethnicity Build a Nation -- Explaining Racial Stratification: Framing the Discussion -- Economic Inequality: Work, Class, and Poverty -- Bringing It Home: Families and Communities -- Race and Place: Residential and Educational Segregation -- It Gets to You: Health Care and the Environment -- Justice and Injustice: Racism, Crime, and the Criminal Justice System -- The Long Search for Racial Justice.

Getting Smart About Race offers an accessible introduction on racial inequality. Margaret Andersen discusses why racial healing should be an integral element of our everyday discussions and how to move the conversation in a positive direction. A new prologue discusses the momentous events of 2020, from the pandemic to protests and the elections.

Offers some critical reflections on whiteness studies, arguing that a lack of a sociological perspective runs the risk of rendering such work ungrounded in the material reality of racism by merely focusing its attention on the construction of white identity. The context in which white studies emerged is considered before elaborating on three major contributions from the field: (1) "white" as ubiquitous & invisible, (2) whiteness as a system of privilege, & (3) race as a social construction. The merit of whiteness studies is then gauged in terms of conceptual & analytic clarity, empirical verification, pedagogical value, & implications for social policy & social change. Ultimately, it is suggested that whiteness studies will unlikely produce much in the way of analytically strong arguments about race or a progressive politics for racial change. J. Zendejas

Two important dimensions of the American dream for contemporary dualcareer couples are achievement and selfsufficiency. In-depth interviews with twentyone corporate dual-career couples reveal that this version of the American dream contains several distinctive features: negotiating two careers in one family; deciding to have children within the confines of traditional male career models; balancing parenting between spouses; and finding solutions to childcare problems. The interviews reveal that family adjustment and self-sufficiency are core values but ones which are contingent upon the hired services of working class women. Thus, while an "individualized" American dream may be the visible outcome of achievement for these dual-career couples, self-sufficiency proves to be more apparent than real.