Race, Ethnicity, and Gender

Designed to be both a stand alone reader as well as a companion title to "Diversity and Society, 2e", this book offers a mix of first-person accounts, competing views on various issues, and articles from the research literature. It provides orientation on the issues which many instructors utilize when teaching the race and ethnicity course. The Second Edition of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender: Selected Readings offers 36 total readings featuring comprehensive, varied, and highly accessible 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 pressing problems: 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.