Description
Known for its clear and engaging writing, the bestselling Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class: The Sociology of Group Conflict and Change has been thoroughly updated to be fresher, more relevant, and more accessible to undergraduates. The text uses sociological perspectives and a consistent conceptual framework to tell the story of America’s minority groups, today and throughout history. By presenting information, asking questions, and examining controversies, it demonstrates that understanding what it means to be an American has always required us to grapple with issues of diversity and difference.
This title is accompanied by a complete teaching and learning package.
Table of Contents
Part I: An Introduction to the Study of Minority Groups in the United States
1. Diversity in the United States: Questions and Concepts
2. Assimilation and Pluralism: From Immigrants to White Ethnics
3. Prejudice and Discrimination
Part II: The Evolution of Dominant–Minority Relations in the United States
4. The Development of Dominant–Minority Group Relations in Preindustrial America: The Origins of Slavery
5. Industrialization and Dominant–Minority Relations: From Slavery to Segregation and the Coming of Postindustrial Society
Part III: Understanding Dominant–Minority Relations in the United States Today
6. African Americans
7. Native Americans
8. Hispanic Americans
9. Asian Americans
10. New Americans, Immigration, Assimilation, and Old Challenges
Part IV: Other Groups, Other Patterns
11. Gender
12. Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Americans
13. Dominant–Minority Relations in Cross-National Perspective
Part V: Challenges for the Present and the Future
14. Minority Groups and U.S. Society: Themes, Patterns, and the Future
