Book Title: Racial and Ethnic Diversity: A Sociological Introduction

Book Description

This innovative Open Educational Resource textbook on racial and ethnic diversity combines a sociological and comparative approach. The author, a sociology Ph.D. at an Ohio two-year college, provides a well-researched and detailed introduction to diversity. The sociological approach highlights structural relationships of the non-Hispanic white group to other U.S. racial-ethnic groups, in the present day and historically. The comparative approach discusses U.S. diversity in international and historical perspective, especially in terms of North America’s many political, economic, and social relationships with Latin America. This comparative approach is especially important for today’s students, given the current Hispanicization of the U.S. The 13 chapters are grouped into four Units: Introducing Diversity, Whiteness and Power, Legacies of Racialized Slavery, and Immigration and Latin America. The textbook also includes 13 chapter quizzes.