Main description:
Written in a clear, consistent style, the Fourth Edition of this bestselling textbook eloquently describes, and at times serves as a conduit for a broad spectrum of experiences related to race, ethnicity, gender and class. Featuring in-depth analyses of diversity within groups, as well as the multiple interactions between them, Joseph F Healey addresses the experiences of women, and many other minority groups, throughout the text.
New material is provided that analyzes the recent immigration trends in the United States, and well as new student-friendly features have been added such as: 'current debates' at the end of each chapter that consider the ideas of and works of prominent figures in the area; and 'narrative portraits' - first-person accounts that allow the student to study the human side of theory.
Table of contents:
Preface
Diversity in the United States: Questions and Concepts
Assimilation and Pluralism
Prejudice and Discrimination in the Individual
Societal Trends in Prejudice and Discrimination
The Development of Dominant-Minority Group Relations in Preindustrial America: The Origins of Slavery
Industrialization and Dominant Minority Relations: From Slavery to Segregation and the Coming of Postindustrial Society
African Americans: From Segregation to Modern Institutional Discrimination and Modern Racism
Native Americans: From Conquest to Tribal Survival in a Postindustrial Society
Hispanic Americans: Colonization, Immigration, and Ethnic Enclaves
Asian Americans: Are Chinese Americans and Japanese Americans Model Minorities?
New Americans: Immigration and Assimilation
White Ethnic Groups: Assimilation and Identity - The Twilight of Ethnicity
Dominant-Minority Relations in Cross-National Perspective
Minority Groups and U.S. Society: Themes, Patterns, and the Future
Written in a clear, consistent style, the Fourth Edition of this bestselling textbook eloquently describes, and at times serves as a conduit for a broad spectrum of experiences related to race, ethnicity, gender and class. Featuring in-depth analyses of diversity within groups, as well as the multiple interactions between them, Joseph F Healey addresses the experiences of women, and many other minority groups, throughout the text.
New material is provided that analyzes the recent immigration trends in the United States, and well as new student-friendly features have been added such as: 'current debates' at the end of each chapter that consider the ideas of and works of prominent figures in the area; and 'narrative portraits' - first-person accounts that allow the student to study the human side of theory.
Table of contents:
Preface
Diversity in the United States: Questions and Concepts
Assimilation and Pluralism
Prejudice and Discrimination in the Individual
Societal Trends in Prejudice and Discrimination
The Development of Dominant-Minority Group Relations in Preindustrial America: The Origins of Slavery
Industrialization and Dominant Minority Relations: From Slavery to Segregation and the Coming of Postindustrial Society
African Americans: From Segregation to Modern Institutional Discrimination and Modern Racism
Native Americans: From Conquest to Tribal Survival in a Postindustrial Society
Hispanic Americans: Colonization, Immigration, and Ethnic Enclaves
Asian Americans: Are Chinese Americans and Japanese Americans Model Minorities?
New Americans: Immigration and Assimilation
White Ethnic Groups: Assimilation and Identity - The Twilight of Ethnicity
Dominant-Minority Relations in Cross-National Perspective
Minority Groups and U.S. Society: Themes, Patterns, and the Future