Overview

Full Product Details

9781538149454

Table of Contents

Reviews

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

Examining the full range of sociology of race in the US, Anderson'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 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

"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 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 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. -- ""Teaching Sociology"""

"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 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 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.-- ""Teaching Sociology"""

Author Information

Margaret L. Andersen is the Edward F. and Elizabeth Goodman Rosenberg Professor of Sociology at the University of Delaware where she also holds joint appointments in Black American Studies and Women’s Studies. She is a member of the National Advisory Board for Stanford University’s Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity and is the Past-Vice President of the American Sociological Association and Past President of the Eastern Sociological Society from which she received ESS Merit Award. Professor Andersen has received The Eastern Sociological Society Merit Award for career contributions and the American Sociological Association’s Jessie Bernard Award, an award given for expanding the boundaries of sociology to include women. She is the author of several bestselling textbooks, including Thinking about Women, 10th edition, Race, Class and Gender (co-edited with Patricia Hill Collins; 9th ed.), Race and Ethnicity in Society: The Changing Landscape (co-edited with Elizabeth Higginbotham; 4th edition), and Sociology: The Essentials (co-authored, Howard F. Taylor, 9th ed.).

Tab Content 6

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

Countries Available