Culture and Diversity in the United States : So Many Ways to Be American

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. Du site de l'éditeur: 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 Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of Images List of Boxes, Figures and Tables About This Book Chapter 1: Thinking about Diversity Chapter 2: Inter-Group Relations and the History of Diversity in the US Chapter 3: Race and Racial Thinking Chapter 4: Ethnicity: Beyond the Race Binary Chapter 5: Class Chapter 6: Sex and Gender: Male and Female Chapter 7: Sex and Gender: Beyond the Gender Binary Chapter 8: Language Chapter 9: Religion Chapter 10: Age Chapter 11: Health and (Dis)ability Chapter 12: Region and Geography: The Spatial Distribution of Diversity Glossary Bibliography Index