Rethinking the Color Line

• Author : Charles Andrew Gallagher
• Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
• Release : 28 March 1999

A collection for an undergraduate course, providing a theoretical framework and analytical tools and discussing the meaning of race and ethnicity as a social construction. The readings are designed to require students to negotiate between individual agency and the constraints of social structure, an

• Author : Charles A. Gallagher
• Publisher : SAGE Publications
• Release : 20 January 2022

Rethinking the Color Line helps make sense of how race and ethnicity influence aspects of social life in ways that are often made invisible by culture, politics, and economics. Charles A. Gallagher has assembled a collection of readings that are theoretically informed and empirically grounded to explain the dynamics of race and ethnicity in the United States. Students will be equipped to confidently navigate the issues of race and ethnicity, examine its contradictions, and gain a comprehensive understanding of how

• Author : Charles A. Gallagher
• Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
• Release : 03 September 2018

Charles A. Gallagher’s best-selling reader is now with SAGE Publishing! User-friendly without sacrificing intellectual or theoretical rigor, this popular anthology for race and ethnic relations courses introduces students to classic statements, contemporary favorites, and works by early career scholars. Rethinking the Color Line helps make sense of how race and ethnicity influence aspects of social life in ways that are often made invisible by culture, politics, and economics. The readings reflect a variety of approaches to studying race and

• Author : Charles A. Gallagher
• Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
• Release : 05 December 2008

Rethinking the Color Line is a user-friendly text that does not sacrifice intellectual or theoretical rigor. This anthology of current research examines contemporary issues and explores new approaches to the study of race and ethnic relations. The featured readings effectively engage students by helping them understand theories and concepts, and encourage active learning in the classroom all while providing relevance for students from all ethnic, racial, cultural, and economic backgrounds. The new fourth edition features 8 new readings as well as

• Author : Charles Andrew Gallagher
• Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
• Release : 28 March 1999

A collection for an undergraduate course, providing a theoretical framework and analytical tools and discussing the meaning of race and ethnicity as a social construction. The readings are designed to require students to negotiate between individual agency and the constraints of social structure, an

• Author : Richard T. Schaefer
• Publisher : SAGE
• Release : 20 March 2008

This encyclopedia offers a comprehensive look at the roles race and ethnicity play in society and in our daily lives. Over 100 racial and ethnic groups are described, with additional thematic essays offering insight into broad topics that cut across group boundaries and which impact on society.

• Author : Krystal Beamon,Chris M. Messer
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 12 November 2013

Sports are an integral part of American society. Millions of dollars are spent every year on professional, collegiate, and youth athletics, and participation in and viewing of these sports both alter and reflect how one perceives the world. Beamon and Messer deftly explore sports as a social construction, and more significantly, the large role race and ethnicity play in sports and consequently sports’ influence on modern race relations. This text is ideal for courses on Sport and Society as well

• Author : Heather M. Dalmage
• Publisher : Rutgers University Press
• Release : 28 March 2023

At the turn of the twentieth century W.E.B. DuBois predicted that the central problem facing the United States in the new century would be that of the “color line.” Now, at the beginning of a new century, we find many people straddling the color line. These people come from the growing number of multiracial families in America, families who search for places of comfort and familiarity in a racially polarized society whose educational system, places of worship, and

• Author : Mark Brilliant
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release : 04 November 2010

From the moment that the attack on the "problem of the color line," as W.E.B. DuBois famously characterized the problem of the twentieth century, began to gather momentum nationally during World War II, California demonstrated that the problem was one of color lines. In The Color of America Has Changed, Mark Brilliant examines California's history to illustrate how the civil rights era was a truly nationwide and multiracial phenomenon-one that was shaped and complicated by the presence of

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : BRILL
• Release : 26 November 2018

Challenging the Status Quo offers the latest cutting-edge scholarship in the subfield of sociology of diversity and inclusion.

• Author : Atalia Omer
• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
• Release : 21 May 2019

For many Jewish people in the mid-twentieth century, Zionism was an unquestionable tenet of what it meant to be Jewish. Seventy years later, a growing number of American Jews are instead expressing solidarity with Palestinians, questioning old allegiances to Israel. How did that transformation come about? What does it mean for the future of Judaism? In Days of Awe, Atalia Omer examines this shift through interviews with a new generation of Jewish activists, rigorous data analysis, and fieldwork within a

• Author : Kristin Haltinner
• Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
• Release : 16 October 2013

This book presents thoughtful reflections and in-depth, critical analyses of the new challenges and opportunities instructors face in teaching race during what has been called the “post-racial era”. It examines the racial dimensions of the current political, economic, and cultural climate. The book features renowned scholars and experienced teachers from a range of disciplines and offers successful strategies for teaching important concepts through case studies and active learning exercises. It provides innovative strategies, novel lesson plans and classroom activities for

• Author : Stephanie M. McClure,Cherise A. Harris
• Publisher : SAGE Publications
• Release : 19 June 2014

Stephanie McClure and Cherise A. Harris’s Second Thoughts on Race in the United States: Hoodies, Model Minorities, and Real Americans is an edited collection of short essays that address the most common misconceptions about race held by students (and by many in the United States, in general)—it is a "one-stop shopping" reader on the racial topics most often pondered by students and derived from their interests and concerns. There is no existing reader that summarizes the research across

• Author : Loretta I. Winters,Herman L. DeBose
• Publisher : SAGE
• Release : 28 March 2023

How multiracial people identify themselves can have a big impact on their positions in family, community & society. This volume examines the multiracial experience in the US.

• Author : Chrystal Y. Grey,Thomas Janoski
• Publisher : Lexington Books
• Release : 18 December 2017

This book explores how African-Americans and Afro-Caribbeans from the former British colonies can be so different in their approaches toward social mobility.