Jack David Eller

Culture and Diversity in the United States

So Many Ways to Be American

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Knowledge of and sensitivity toward diversity is an essential skill in the contemporary United States and the wider world. This book addresses the standard topics of race, ethnicity, class and gender but goes much further by engaging seriously with issues of language, religion, age, health and disability, and region and geography. It also considers the intersections between and the diversities within these categories.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 342
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 178mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 880g
• ISBN-13: 9781138826687
• ISBN-10: 1138826685
• Artikelnr.: 41608977

Autorenporträt

Jack David Eller is Associate Professor (Emeritus) of Anthropology at the Community College of Denver, USA. An experienced teacher, he is author of a major introductory textbook Cultural Anthropology: Global Forces, Local Lives (second edition, Routledge 2013).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Thinking About Diversity 2. Intergroup Relations and the History of
Cultural Diversity in the U.S. 3. Race and Racial Thinking 4. Ethnicity:
Beyond the Race Binary 5. Class 6. Sex and Gender: Male and Female 7. Sex
and Gender: Beyond the Gender Binary 8. Language 9. Religion 10. Age 11.
Health and (Dis)Ability 12. Region and Geography: The Spatial Distribution
of Diversity