RACE IN SOCIETYTHE ENDURING APB de Margaret L. Andersen

RACE IN SOCIETYTHE ENDURING APB

Margaret L. Andersen

Paperback – 11 mar 2021

Race in Society is a comprehensive book about the sociology of race in America. The purpose of the book is to introduce readers to current research scholarship on race, emphasizing the socially constructed basis of race and the persistence of racial inequality in American institutions.

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Margaret L. Andersen (Ph.D., M.A. University of Massachusetts, Amherst; B.A. Georgia State University) 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 the author of several books, including Thinking about Women, published in its tenth edition; the best-selling anthology, 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), Sociology: The Essentials (co-authored, Howard F. Taylor, 9th ed.), Living Art: The Life of African American Art Collector Paul Jones; and, On Land and On Sea: A Century of Women in the Rosenfeld Collection. 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. She has received two teaching awards from the University of Delaware and two prestigious awards from her professional organizations: 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. At the University of Delaware she has served in several senior administrative positions, including Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs and Diversity, Executive Director of the President's Diversity Initiative, Interim Deputy Provost, and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Professor Andersen is the former Vice President of the American Sociological Association (ASA) and recipient of the ASA's prestigious Jessie Bernard Award-given annually to someone whose work expands the horizons of sociology to include the study of women. She also received the 2004 Sociologists for Women in Society Feminist Lecturer Award and the 2008 Eastern Sociological Society Robin F. Williams Lecturer Award. She just completed a 10-year term as the chair of the National Advisory Board of Stanford University's Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity and is the former editor of Gender & Society.

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PART I: THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF RACE

Chapter 1 Race: A Thoroughly Social Ideal
Chapter 2 What Do You Think? Prejudice, Racism, and Colorblindness
Chapter 3 Representing Race: Popular Culture and the Media
Chapter 4 Who Do You Think You Are? Racial Identities and Relationships

Part II: UNDERSTANDING RACIAL STRATIFICATION

Chapter 5Diverse Histories/Common Threads: Race and Ethnicity Build a Nation
Chapter 6Roots of Racial Inequality: Framing the Discussion

Part III: RACE AND SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS

Chapter 7Economic Inequality: Work, Class, and Poverty
Chapter 8Bringing It Home: Families and Communities
Chapter 9 Race and Place: Residential and Educational Segregation
Chapter 10 It Gets to You: Health Care and the Environment
Chapter 11Justice and Injustice: Race and Crime

PART IV: RACE AND SOCIAL CHANGE

Chapter 12The Long Search for Racial Justice

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