Race, Ethnicity, and Gender: Selected Readings

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.

• Offers more material on gender, mixed race individuals, and new immigrants: This edition includes many new selections-13 new articles, 5 new Personal Narratives, and 3 new Current Debates.
• Includes more detailed introductions for the readings followed by discussion questions: Each chapter begins with a framework essay and a set of questions which provide a focus and an orientation for the reader.
• Parallels updates to the Second Edition of Diversity and Society: This edition corresponds to the chapters in the companion textbook while extending its analysis and broadening its perspective.

Intended Audience
Designed as a stand-alone text or as a companion to Joseph Healey’s Diversity & Society, Second Edition, this reader is an ideal text for a variety of undergraduate courses such as Race and Ethnicity; Social Stratification; Inequality; Diversity; Race Relations; and Minority-Majority Relations in the departments of sociology, gender studies, women’s studies, political science, and social work.