Culture and Diversity in the United States

So Many Ways to Be American

• Author(s): Jack David Eller,
• Publisher: Routledge
• Pages: 356
• ISBN_10: 1317575784
  ISBN_13: 9781317575788
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Social Science / Anthropology / General , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social , Social Science / Discrimination , Social Science / Gender Studies , Social Science / Social Classes & Economic Disparity , Social Science / Ethnic Studies / General , Social Science / Sociology / General ,

Description:...

Knowledge of and sensitivity toward diversity is an essential skill in the contemporary United States and the wider world. This book addresses the standard topics of race, ethnicity, class and gender but goes much further by engaging seriously with issues of language, religion, age, health and disability, and region and geography. It also considers the intersections between and the diversities within these categories. Eller presents students with an unprecedented combination of history, conceptual analysis, discussion of academic literature, and up-to-date statistics. The book includes a range of illustrations, figures and tables, text boxes, a glossary of key terms, and a comprehensive bibliography. Additional resources are provided via a companion website.

Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.