The Routledge Handbook on Marginalized Groups in the United States and their Challenges

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

Biography

Dr. Maruice Mangum, Ph.D., is Chair of the Department of Political Science at Jackson State University. He is an American public opinion scholar specializing in African American politics, race and politics, and political behavior. His research is at the intersection of racial identity and intergroup relations, and he won the Distinguished Teaching Award at Texas Southern University and the Anna J. Cooper Teaching Award for Excellence in Teaching from the National Conference of Black Political Scientists.

“This new Handbook is an essential resource for researchers, instructors, and students in courses on racism, sexism and other forms of discrimination in a theoretical and more practical ways.  This book is not only for teaching instruction but also for scholars and readers interested in understanding the complexity of discrimination in today’s America for the purpose to overcome it. The contributors to the Handbook focus on the marginalized groups in the United States and most importantly on different ways in which those groups continue to be ostracized and be discriminated against today. The uniqueness of the project is located at its intersection of sociology, social theory, culture and politics. This interdisciplinary endeavor is very much needed in the field of Minority studies. A more interdisciplinary and contemporary approach to discrimination is needed and that is why this project is so important in the field.”

Alain Lawo-Sukam, Coordinator of Africana Studies Program, Texas A&M University

“This new Handbook is very comprehensive and covers a lot of vitally important ground for researchers, instructors, and students. The editor and contributors are very established scholars with track records of producing good research, and have strong commitments to the study of race and research on race.  It is a very timely publication, especially considering the political environment we are now in with laws being proposed in several states to ban discussion of race.”

Sharon D. Austin, Professor of Political Science, University of Florida