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Schaefer, Richard T.,

Racial and Ethnic Groups / Richard T. Schaefer - Fourteenth edition. - 451 p. illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-414) and index.

Part I. Perspectives on racial and ethnic groups -- Exploring race and ethnicity -- Prejudice -- Discrimination -- Part II. Ethnic and religious sources of conflict -- Immigration -- Ethnicity, whiteness and religion -- Major racial and ethnic minority groups in the United States -- Native Americans : the first Americans -- African Americans -- African Americans today -- Latinos : growth and diversity -- Mexican Americans and Puerto Ricans -- Muslim and Arab Americans : diverse minorities -- Asian Pacific Americans : an array of nationalities -- Chinese Americans : the early experience -- Jewish Americans : the quest to maintain identity -- Part IV. Other patterns of dominance -- Women : the oppressed majority -- Beyond the United States : the comparative perspective -- Overcoming exclusion -- Glossary.

ISBN: 1292073942 0134736621 (books á la carte edition)

LCCN: 2017029686

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Minorities--United States.
Prejudices--United States.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States--Ethnic relations.
United States--Race relations.

LC Class. No.: E184 / SCH 2015