Race, ethnicity, gender, & class : the sociology of group conflict and change / Joseph F. Healey, Christopher Newport University, Andi Stepnick, Belmont University, Eileen O'Brien, Saint Leo University, Virginia.
Edition:
Eighth edition.
Publisher:
SAGE PublicationsInc.,
Copyright Date:
2019
Description:
xxvii, 498 pages, 64 variously numbered pages ; 28 cm
Revised edition of Race, ethnicity, gender, & class, [2015]. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
About the author -- An introduction to the study of minority groups in the United States -- Diversity in the United States : questions and concepts -- Assimilation and pluralism : from immigrants to white ethnics -- Prejudice and discrimination -- The evolution of dominant-minority relations in the United States -- 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 -- Understanding dominant-minority relations in the United States today -- African Americans -- Native Americans : from conquest to survival in a postindustrial society -- Hispanic Americans : colonization, immigration, and ethnic enclaves -- Asian Americans : model minorities? -- New Americans, immigration, assimilation, and old challenges -- Other groups, other patterns -- Gender -- Lesbian, gay, and bisexual Americans -- Dominant-minority relations in a cross-national perspective -- Challenges for the present and the future -- Minority groups and U.S. society : themes, patterns, and the future -- Glossary -- References -- Index.
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