Race, Ethnicity, and Gender: Selected Readings

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Joseph F. Healey, Eileen O'Brien
Pine Forge Press, 8. 5. 2007 - Počet stran: 477
The Second Edition of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender: Selected Readings offers comprehensive, varied, and highly readable views of the problems of racism and sexism in American society. Editors Joseph F. Healey and Eileen T. O'Brien present a variety of perspectives on some of the most pressing problems facing American society: racism and prejudice, inequality and discrimination, and assimilation and pluralism. This new edition includes historical perspectives, case studies of minority groups, a strong emphasis on gender, clashing perspectives on contemporary problems, and a chapter on solutions.

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THE EVOLUTION
3
Readings
8
From Slavery to Segregation and the Coming of PostIndustrial Society
135
Affirmative Action
168
African Americans
175
Native Americans
227
Hispanic Americans
265
Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
305
Asian American SuccessWhat Are
322
Readings
331
Is Immigration
355
White Ethnic Groups
359
Antiracist and Feminist Solutions
413
Index
461
About the Editors
477

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Joseph F. Healey is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Christopher Newport University in Virginia. He received his PhD in sociology and anthropology from the University of Virginia. An innovative and experienced teacher of numerous race and ethnicity courses, he has written articles on minority groups, the sociology of sport, social movements, and violence, and he is also the author of Statistics: A Tool for Social Research (10th ed., 2014). 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.

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