AMERICAN ETHNICITY: THE DYNAMICS AND CONSEQUENCES OF DISCRIMINATION is designed to be used for courses in race and ethnic relations in sociology and ethnic studies departments. Its brevity and low cost relative to competitors provide flexibility for professors who want to assign supplementary readings. This book begins with a general discussion of the sociocultural context of racial and ethnic relations and then devotes separate chapters to each of the major racial and ethnic groups in American--African Americans, Native Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, and White Ethnic Americans. The distinguishing feature of the book is that each group is examined in terms of the same framework: Resource Shares (money, power, education, prestige, longevity, etc.), Dynamics of Discrimination (cultural beliefs and institutional arrangements, Stratification, and Responding to Discrimination. This common framework and use of common headings allows students to compare ethnic populations with each other.

American Ethnicity: The Dynamics and Consequences of Discrimination

Politics & Social Sciences

Adalberto Aguirre Jr.

Jonathan H. Turner

Social Sciences

McGraw-Hill.

This brief and inexpensive text is designed to present a concise introduction to America's racial and ethnic groups. The authors combine a general discussion of the sociocultural context of racial and ethnic relations in its beginning section with precisely focused chapters devoted to each of the major racial and ethnic groups in America: African Americans, Native Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, and White Ethnic Americans. A common framework and the use of common headings allows students to compare and contrast ethnic populations to each other.

McGraw-Hill College

American Ethnicity is a brief text that provides an accessible introduction to the dynamics of racial and ethnic relations. Key concepts and theories are summarized, and the authors develop a simple theoretical framework that guides the presentation of data on each of the prominent ethnic groups in America. As a result, this book examines each ethnic group from the same perspective, allowing students to compare the dynamics of discrimination against African Americans, Native Americans, Asian and Pacific Island Americans, white ethnic Americans, and Latinos. The sixth edition offers expanded theoretical framework through the inclusion of the Social Identity Theory.

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American Ethnicity: The Dynamics and Consequences of Discrimination

American Ethnicity: The Dynamics and Consequences of Discrimination

American Ethnicity: The Dynamics and Consequences of Discrimination