Diversity and Society: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender

By Joseph F. Healey and Joseph F Healey

Book Overview

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Derived from the Fourth Edition of Joseph F. Healey′s best-selling text Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class, the Second Edition of Diversity & Society: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender provides an accessible, jargon-free, sociological analysis of U.S. minority groups. Updated throughout, this abbreviated edition retains the conceptual frameworks and organizational format of the larger version, and is the only brief text to present a unitary sociological frame of reference for the analysis of minority-dominant relations.

New to the Second Edition
Includes new coverage of minority groups and current issues: A new chapter (Chapter 9) on "new Americans" has been added, and this edition addresses new issues such as illegal immigration. Expands the material on "whiteness" and gender: Coverage of mixed race individuals and white racial identity is further developed. In addition, the material on gender, previously presented in boxed inserts, is now incorporated into chapter discussion. Provides the most up-to-date information and data: The Second Edition updates the research literature as well as the charts, graphs, and tables with recent information and data, while maintaining its student-friendly style.
Accompanied by high-quality Ancillaries
Instructor Resources on CD provide instructors with examination questions, additional background material on discussion questions in the text, and other helpful aids.

A Student study site at www.pineforge.com/das2 offers:
NPR′s This American Life radio segments that illustrate each chapter′s conceptse-FlashcardsSelf quizzes, web exercises, Public sociology assignments, and more Intended Audience:
This text is designed for undergraduate courses in Minority Groups, Race and Gender, and Immigration taught in the departments of Sociology, Social Work, and Political Science. It can be used as a stand-alone text or in conjunction with Joseph F. Healey′s and Eileen T. O′Brien′s companion reader, Race, Ethnicity, and Gender: Selected Readings, Second Edition (2007).

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1412940672
• ISBN13: 9781412940672
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 0.8" x 7.0"