Rövid leírás:

This book addresses the standard topics of race, ethnicity, class, and gender but goes much further by engaging seriously with issues of language, religion, age, health and disability, and region and geography. It also considers the intersections between and the diversities within these categories.

Hosszú leírás:

This book addresses the standard topics of race, ethnicity, class, and gender but goes much further by engaging seriously with issues of language, religion, age, health and disability, and region and geography. It also considers the intersections between and the diversities within these categories. Eller presents students with an unprecedented combination of history, conceptual analysis, discussion of academic literature, and up-to-date statistics. The book includes a range of illustrations, figures and tables, text boxes, a glossary of key terms, and a comprehensive bibliography. New to this edition are updated numerical and statistical data, as well as discussions of sociopolitical developments over the past decade, including

? The controversies over the 2020 census itself (e.g., the ?citizenship question,? funding for the census)

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About This Book

Chapter 1          Thinking about Diversity

Chapter 2          Inter-group Relations and the History of Diversity in the United States

Chapter 3          Race and Racial Thinking

Chapter 4          Race and Ethnicity: Beyond the Black/White Binary

Chapter 5          Class and Socioeconomic Inequality

Chapter 6          Sex and Gender: Male and Female

Chapter 7          Sex and Gender: Beyond the Gender Binary

Chapter 8          Age and Generation

Chapter 9          Language

Chapter 10        Religion

Chapter 11        Health and (Dis)ability

Chapter 12        Region and Geographical Distribution