Full Description
Adapted from Joseph F. Healey and Eileen O'Brien's bestselling Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class, this brief and accessible text presents a unified sociological frame of reference to help students analyze minority-dominant relations in the U.S. Diversity and Society: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender, Fifth Edition explores the history and contemporary status of racial and ethnic groups in the U.S., including differences between the experiences of minority women and men. In addition, the book includes comparative, cross-national coverage of group relations.
Contents
Part I An Introduction to the Study of Minority Groups in the United StatesChapter 1: Diversity in the United States: Questions and ConceptsMinority Groups: Trends and QuestionsWhat Is a Minority Group?Patterns of InequalityVisible Distinguishing Traits: Race and GenderKey Concepts in Dominant-Minority RelationsA Global PerspectiveChapter 2: Assimilation and Pluralism: From Immigrants to White EthnicsAssimilationPluralismOther Group RelationshipsFrom Immigrants to White EthnicsVariations in AssimilationThe Descendants of the Immigrants TodayContemporary Immigrants: Does the Traditional Perspective Apply?Implications for Examining Dominant-Minority RelationsPart II: The Evolution of Dominant-Minority Relations in the United StatesChapter 3: The Development of Dominant-Minority Group Relations in Preindustrial America: The Origins of SlaveryThe Origins of Slavery in AmericaThe Creation of Minority Status for American Indians and Mexican AmericansComparing Minority GroupsChapter 4: Industrialization and Dominant-Minority Relations: From Slavery to Segregation and the Coming of Postindustrial SocietyIndustrialization and the Shift From Paternalistic to Rigid Competitive Group RelationsThe Impact of Industrialization on the Racial Stratification of African Americans: From Slavery to SegregationThe Dimensions of Minority-Group StatusIndustrialization, the Shift to Postindustrial Society, and Dominant-Minority Group Relations: General TrendsPostindustrial Society and the Shift From Rigid to Fluid Competitive RelationshipsGender Inequality in a Globalizing, Postindustrial WorldModern Institutional DiscriminationSocial Change and Minority Group ActivismPart III: Understanding Dominant-Minority Relations in the United States TodayChapter 5: African Americans: From Segregation to Modern Institutional Discrimination and Modern RacismThe End of De Jure SegregationDevelopments Outside the SouthProtest, Power, and PluralismBlack-White Relations Since the 1960s: Issues and TrendsIs the Glass Half Empty or Half Full?Chapter 6: American Indians: From Conquest to Tribal Survival in a Postindustrial SocietySize of the GroupAmerican Indian CulturesRelations With the Federal Government After the 1890sProtest and ResistanceContemporary American Indian-White RelationsAssimilation and PluralismComparing Minority GroupsProgress and ChallengesChapter 7: Hispanic Americans: Colonization, Immigration, and Ethnic EnclavesMexican AmericansPuerto RicansCuban AmericansPrejudice and DiscriminationAssimilation and PluralismChapter 8: Asian Americans: Model Minorities?Origins and CulturesContact Situations and the Development of the Chinese American and Japanese American CommunitiesComparing Minority GroupsContemporary Immigration From AsiaPrejudice and DiscriminationAssimilation and PluralismComparing Minority Groups: Explaining Asian American SuccessPart IV: Challenges for the Present and the FutureChapter 9: New Americans, Assimilation, and Old ChallengesCurrent ImmigrationNew Hispanic Groups: Immigrants From the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, and ColombiaNon-Hispanic Immigrants From the CarribbeanContemporary Immigration From AsiaMiddle Eastern and Arab AmericansModes of IncorporationImmigration: Issues and ControversiesIs Contemporary Assimilation Segmented?Recent Immigration in Historical and Global ContextNew Immigrants and Old IssuesChapter 10: Minority Groups and U.S. Society: Themes, Patterns, and the FutureThe Importance of Subsistence TechnologyThe Importance of the Contact Situation, Group Competition, and PowerThe Importance of IntersectionalityAssimilation and PluralismMinority Group Progress and the Ideology of American IndividualismA Final Word
