Overview

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.

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Author:   Maruice Mangum
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.920kg
ISBN:  

9781041086659

ISBN 10:   1041086652
Pages:   386
Publication Date:   21 November 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Introduction, “Marginalized Groups in America Continue to Be Attacked”, Maruice Mangum; I. Existential Threats, Section Introduction – “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 Cathey and Jerome Hunt; 4. Why Xenophobia?, Natsu Taylor Saito; 5. Disability Policy and Emergent Issues in the 2020s: The Case of Neurodivergence and Intersectionality, Yinka Ogunlana, Casey LaFrance, Kyle Ramlow, and Winter Unverzagt; II. Structural Barriers, Section Introduction – “Structural Barriers”, 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 Okereke; 8. Inequity in Land and Home Ownership in the United States: 2020–2024, Albert Dorsey, Jr.; III. Institutional Impediments, Section Introduction – “Institutional Impediments”, Albert Samuels; 9. Weakening Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Komanduri Murty and Johnny Green; 10. Weakening Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Komanduri Murty and Johnny Green; 11. Affirmative Action in Higher Education, Komanduri 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; IV. Public Policies, Section Introduction – “Public Policies”, Vineeth Vijayan; 15. Laboratories of Chaos: Reproductive Health, Federalism, and Uncertainty After Dobbs, Ray Mikell; 16. Anti-LGBTQIA+ Laws in the United States, Jerome Hunt and Shameka 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 Bones and Emily King; V. Cultural Controversies, Section Introduction – “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 BIPOC & LGBTQIA+, Jessica Love and William Kelly; 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 Palmer-Asemota and Erin Rider; VI. Case Studies, Section Introduction – “Case Studies Involving Marginalized Groups”, Marcus 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 Murty, and Ava Thorpe; 25. Exploring 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

Reviews

“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

Author Information

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.

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