Ethnicity in the Americas
Author: Frances Henry
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2011-05-12
Total Pages: 469
ISBN-13: 311080350X
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Ethnic America
Author: Thomas Sowell
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2008-08-01
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 0786723157
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This classic work by the distinguished economist traces the history of nine American ethnic groups -- the Irish, Germans, Jews, Italians, Chinese, African-Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Mexicans.
Race and Ethnicity in America
Author: John Iceland
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2017-02-14
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 0520286928
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"This book examines patterns and trends in racial inequality over the past several decades. Iceland finds that color lines have softened over time, as there has been some narrowing of differences across many indicators for most groups over the past sixty years. Asian Americans in particular have reached socioeconomic parity with white Americans. Nevertheless, deep-seated inequalities in income, poverty, unemployment, and health remain, especially among blacks, and, to a lesser extent, Hispanics. The causes for disadvantage for the groups vary, ranging from a legacy of racism, current discrimination, human capital deficits, the unfolding process of immigrant incorporation, and cultural responses to disadvantage."--Provided by publisher.
Constructing Race and Ethnicity in America
Author: Dvora Yanow
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-02-18
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1317473930
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →What do we mean in the U.S. today when we use the terms "race" and "ethnicity"? What do we mean, and what do we understand, when we use the five standard race-ethnic categories: White, Black, Asian, Native American, and Hispanic? Most federal and state data collection agencies use these terms without explicit attention, and thereby create categories of American ethnicity for political purposes. Davora Yanow argues that "race" and "ethnicity" are socially constructed concepts, not objective, scientifically-grounded variables, and do not accurately represent the real world. She joins the growing critique of the unreflective use of "race" and "ethnicity" in American policymaking through an exploration of how these terms are used in everyday practices. Her book is filled with current examples and analyses from a wealth of social institutions: health care, education, criminal justice, and government at all levels. The questions she raises for society and public policy are endless. Yanow maintains that these issues must be addressed explicitly, publicly, and nationally if we are to make our policy and administrative institutions operate more effectively.
Race and Ethnicity in Latin America
Author: Jorge I Dominguez
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-12-07
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 1135564973
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First Published in 1994. In nearly all racially and ethnically heterogeneous societies, there is overt national conflict among parties and social movements organized on the basis of race and ethnicity. Such conflict has been much less evident in Latin America. Scholars have pondered the nature of race and ethnicity with regard to both Afro- American and Indo-American societies, though research on Brazil has been particularly prominent. Special attention has been given to the relationship between social class and race and ethnicity.
Race and Ethnicity in America
Author: Ronald H. Bayor
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780231129404
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This brief history acts as an introduction to the inter-related themes of race, ethnicity and immigration in American history. It spans the years 1600 to 2000, exploring the historical roots of contemporary identity politics.
Race, Ethnicity and Publishing in America
Author: C. Cottenet
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-06-26
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 1137390522
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Race, Ethnicity and Publishing in America considers American minority literatures from the perspective of print culture. Putting in dialogue European and American scholars and spanning the slavery era through the early 21st century, they draw on approaches from library history, literary history and textual studies.
Race and Ethnicity in America [4 volumes]
Author: Russell M. Lawson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2019-10-11
Total Pages: 1972
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Divided into four volumes, Race and Ethnicity in America provides a complete overview of the history of racial and ethnic relations in America, from pre-contact to the present. The five hundred years since Europeans made contact with the indigenous peoples of America have been dominated by racial and ethnic tensions. During the colonial period, from 1500 to 1776, slavery and servitude of whites, blacks, and Indians formed the foundation for race and ethnic relations. After the American Revolution, slavery, labor inequalities, and immigration led to racial and ethnic tensions; after the Civil War, labor inequalities, immigration, and the fight for civil rights dominated America's racial and ethnic experience. From the 1960s to the present, the unfulfilled promise of civil rights for all ethnic and racial groups in America has been the most important sociopolitical issue in America. Race and Ethnicity in America tells this story of the fight for equality in America. The first volume spans pre-contact to the American Revolution; the second, the American Revolution to the Civil War; the third, Reconstruction to the Civil Rights Movement; and the fourth, the Civil Rights Movement to the present. All volumes explore the culture, society, labor, war and politics, and cultural expressions of racial and ethnic groups.
Pigmentocracies
Author: Edward Telles
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2014-10-22
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1469617846
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Pigmentocracies--the fruit of the multiyear Project on Ethnicity and Race in Latin America (PERLA)--is a richly revealing analysis of contemporary attitudes toward ethnicity and race in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru, four of Latin America's most populous nations. Based on extensive, original sociological and anthropological data generated by PERLA, this landmark study analyzes ethnoracial classification, inequality, and discrimination, as well as public opinion about Afro-descended and indigenous social movements and policies that foster greater social inclusiveness, all set within an ethnoracial history of each country. A once-in-a-generation examination of contemporary ethnicity, this book promises to contribute in significant ways to policymaking and public opinion in Latin America. Edward Telles, PERLA's principal investigator, explains that profound historical and political forces, including multiculturalism, have helped to shape the formation of ethnic identities and the nature of social relations within and across nations. One of Pigmentocracies's many important conclusions is that unequal social and economic status is at least as much a function of skin color as of ethnoracial identification. Investigators also found high rates of discrimination by color and ethnicity widely reported by both targets and witnesses. Still, substantial support across countries was found for multicultural-affirmative policies--a notable result given that in much of modern Latin America race and ethnicity have been downplayed or ignored as key factors despite their importance for earlier nation-building.
Race, Ethnicity, Crime and Criminal Justice in the Americas
Author: A. Kalunta-Crumpton
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2012-01-25
Total Pages: 469
ISBN-13: 0230355862
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book examines race, ethnicity, crime and criminal justice in the Americas and moves beyond the traditional focus on North America to incorporate societies in Central America, South America and the Caribbean.
