Diversity and society : race, ethnicity and gender /: race, ethnicity and gender. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Joseph F. Healey.
• Authors: Healey, Joseph F, 1945-; Stepnick, Andrea (Andi)
• Contents: Part I An Introduction to the Study of Minority Groups in the United States; Chapter 1: Diversity in the United States: Questions and Concepts; Minority Groups: Trends and Questions; What Is a Minority Group?; Patterns of Inequality; Visible Distinguishing Traits: Race and Gender; Key Concepts in Dominant-Minority Relations; A Global Perspective; Chapter 2: Assimilation and Pluralism: From Immigrants to White Ethnics; Assimilation; Pluralism; Other Group Relationships; From Immigrants to White Ethnics; Variations in Assimilation; The Descendants of the Immigrants Today; Contemporary Immigrants: Does the Traditional Perspective Apply?; Implications for Examining Dominant-Minority Relations; Part II: The Evolution of Dominant-Minority Relations in the United States; Chapter 3: The Development of Dominant-Minority Group Relations in Preindustrial America: The Origins of Slavery; The Origins of Slavery in America; The Creation of Minority Status for American Indians and Mexican Americans; Comparing Minority Groups; Chapter 4: Industrialization and Dominant-Minority Relations: From Slavery to Segregation and the Coming of Postindustrial Society; Industrialization and the Shift From Paternalistic to Rigid Competitive Group Relations; The Impact of Industrialization on the Racial Stratification of African Americans: From Slavery to Segregation; The Dimensions of Minority-Group Status; Industrialization, the Shift to Postindustrial Society, and Dominant-Minority Group Relations: General Trends; Postindustrial Society and the Shift From Rigid to Fluid Competitive Relationships; Gender Inequality in a Globalizing, Postindustrial World; Modern Institutional Discrimination; Social Change and Minority Group Activism; Part III: Understanding Dominant-Minority Relations in the United States Today; Chapter 5: African Americans: From Segregation to Modern Institutional Discrimination and Modern Racism; The End of De Jure Segregation; Developments Outside the South; Protest, Power, and Pluralism; Black-White Relations Since the 1960s: Issues and Trends; Is the Glass Half Empty or Half Full?; Chapter 6: American Indians: From Conquest to Tribal Survival in a Postindustrial Society; Size of the Group; American Indian Cultures; Relations With the Federal Government After the 1890s; Protest and Resistance; Contemporary American Indian-White Relations; Assimilation and Pluralism; Comparing Minority Groups; Progress and Challenges; Chapter 7: Hispanic Americans: Colonization, Immigration, and Ethnic Enclaves; Mexican Americans; Puerto Ricans; Cuban Americans; Prejudice and Discrimination; Assimilation and Pluralism; Chapter 8: Asian Americans: Model Minorities?; Origins and Cultures; Contact Situations and the Development of the Chinese American and Japanese American Communities; Comparing Minority Groups; Contemporary Immigration From Asia; Prejudice and Discrimination; Assimilation and Pluralism; Comparing Minority Groups: Explaining Asian American Success; Part IV: Challenges for the Present and the Future; Chapter 9: New Americans, Assimilation, and Old Challenges; Current Immigration; New Hispanic Groups: Immigrants From the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, and Colombia; Non-Hispanic Immigrants From the Carribbean; Contemporary Immigration From Asia; Middle Eastern and Arab Americans; Modes of Incorporation; Immigration: Issues and Controversies; Is Contemporary Assimilation Segmented?; Recent Immigration in Historical and Global Context; New Immigrants and Old Issues; Chapter 10: Minority Groups and U.S. Society: Themes, Patterns, and the Future; The Importance of Subsistence Technology; The Importance of the Contact Situation, Group Competition, and Power; The Importance of Intersectionality; Assimilation and Pluralism; Minority Group Progress and the Ideology of American Individualism; A Final Word;
• Edition: Fifth edition
• Publisher Details: Los Angeles : SAGE
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations, maps
• Subjects: 305.800973; Minorities -- United States; Ethnicity -- United States; Racism -- United States; Group identity -- United States; Social conflict -- United States; Ethnic relations; Ethnicity; Group identity; Minorities; Race relations; Racism; Social conflict; United States -- Race relations; United States -- Ethnic relations; United States
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781483323152; 1483323153
• Related ISBNs: 9781452275741
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: CIP data; item not viewed.
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