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Margaret L. Andersen is the Edward F. and Elizabeth Goodman Rosenberg Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of Delaware, where she was honored with two teaching awards. She is the former vice president of the American Sociological Association and former president of the Eastern Sociological Society.
PART I: THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF RACE
1 Race: A Thoroughly Social Ideal
2 What Do You Think? Prejudice, Racism, and Colorblindness
3 Representing Race: Popular Culture and the Media
4 Who Do You Think You Are? Racial Identities and Relationships
Part II: UNDERSTANDING RACIAL STRATIFICATION
5 Diverse Histories/Common Threads: Race and Ethnicity Build a Nation
6 Explaining Racial Stratification: Framing the Discussion
Part III: RACE AND SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS
7 Economic Inequality: Work, Class, and Poverty
8 Bringing It Home: Families and Communities
9 Race and Place: Residential and Educational Segregation
10 It Gets to You: Health Care and the Environment
11 Justice and Injustice: Race, Crime and the Criminal Justice System
PART IV: RACE AND SOCIAL CHANGE
12 The Long Search for Racial Justice: Learning from the Past and Moving Forward
Glossary
References
Name Index
Subject Index
Andersen’s Race and Society engages the classroom with contemporary social scientific scholarship in race and ethnicity and wrestles with the historically rooted and contemporarily experienced complexities of racial and ethnic inequalities across individual, interpersonal, and institutional domains, all while pointing students toward racial justice.
— David L. Brunsma, Virginia Tech
Overall, Race in Society presents the data necessary to develop students’ ability to think critically about the social implications of race . . . Students will undoubtedly develop an understanding of how race is both a permanent fixture and yet a malleable construct in society at the same time. Students will likely appreciate the frequent references to contemporary phenomena such as racialized emojis and the Fight for 15 Movement. By prioritizing the relevance of race and racism through the acknowledgment of how it interacts with other structures in society, students who engage with this textbook will undoubtedly establish a critical sociological imagination, one attuned to how social inequality exists while recognizing that it doesn’t have to persist.
(Previous Edition Praise)— Teaching Sociology
Examining the full range of sociology of race in the US, Andersen’s second edition provides accessible and up-to-date material for students to think critically about racial inequality and racial justice.
— Mary Romero, 110th President, American Sociological Association
Informed by current events, including racial health disparities during the pandemic; racial income and wealth gaps; police brutality; racial protest movements; environmental racism, and more
Brief and highly accessible in style
Strong focus on intersectionality of race, class, and gender—work for which the author is well-known
new “Taking Action against Racism” to suggest how people can make a difference through action against racial injustice
engaging box features that feature the lived experience of racism (“Living with Racism” and also show the continuing significance of past practices on racial inequities (“Learning our Past”)
2/11/2021 - CHOICE featured this title in a list of Forthcoming Titles in African American Studies. Link: https://www.choice360.org/choice-pick/forthcoming-titles-in-african-american-studies/
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