Race, Ethnicity, and Gender: Selected Readings

Joseph F. Healey, Ph.D., is Professor and Chair of Sociology and Social Work at Christopher Newport University. He is author of Statistics: A Tool for Social Research 6th edition (Wadsworth, 2001), Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Class, 3/e (Pine Forge Press, 2002) and Race, Ethnicity and Gender in the United States (Pine Forge, 1996). He is the author of the forthcoming Race, Ethnicity and Gender (Pine Forge, 2004) and is also the co-editor with York Bradshaw of Sociology for a New Century (Pine Forge, 2001) and co-author with Earl Babbie and Fred Halley of Exploring Social Issues: Using SPSS for Windows (Pine Forge, 1997). A.B., M.A., The College of William and Mary (Sociology and Anthropology) and Ph.D., University of Virginia (Sociology and Anthropology). In his spare time, he plays and records music for hammer dulcimer, banjo, and concertina. Eileen O’Brien is an Assistant Professor at SUNY-Brockport where her teaching and research interests range from introductory sociology to courses on race, ethnicity, gender, social class and theory. She authored Whites Confront Racism (Rowan and Littlefield, 2001) and has co-authored White Men on Race (Beacon Press, 2003) with Joe Feagin, a pre-eminent scholar on race and ethnic relations. She received her Ph.D. from the U.of Florida in 1999 M.A. from Ohio State in 1996; both degrees in sociology.