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Healey, Joseph F.

Race, ethinicity, gender, and class: the sociology of group conflict and change/ Joseph F. Healey. - Los Angeles: Sage, 2011. - xxxix, 371 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

PART 1. An Introduction to the Study of Minority Groups in the United States

1. Diversity in the United States: Questions and Concepts

2. Assimilation and Pluralism: From Immigrants to White Ethnics

3. Prejudice and Discrimination

PART 2. The Evolution of Dominant- Minority Relations in the United States

4. The Development of Dominant-Minority Group Relations in Preindustrial America: The Origins of Slavery

5. Industrialization and Dominant-Minority Relations: From Slavery to Segregation and the Coming of Postindustrial Society

6. African Americans: From Segregation to Modern Institutional Discrimination and Modern Racism

7. American Indians: From Conquest to Tribal Survival in a Postindustrial Society

8. Hispanic Americans: Colonization, Immigration, and Ethnic Enclaves

9. Asian Americans: "Model Minorities"

10. New Americans, Assimilation, and Old Challenges

11. Minority Groups and U.S. Society: Themes, Patterns, and the Future



ISBN: 9781412990585

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Minorities
United States
Ethnicity
Group identity
Race relations

Dewey Class. No.: 305.800973 / HEA/R