TY - BOOK AU - Healey,Joseph F. TI - Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class: The Sociology of Group Conflict and Change SN - 9781412977586 (alk. paper) AV - E184.A1 H415 2010a U1 - 305.800973 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Thousand Oaks, Calif PB - Pine Forge Press/Sage KW - Minorities KW - United States KW - Ethnicity KW - Racism KW - Group identity KW - Social conflict KW - Race relations KW - Ethnic relations KW - Social conditions N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; An introduction to the study of minority groups in the United States. Diversity in the United States : questions and concepts -- Assimilation and pluralism : from immigrants to white ethics -- Prejudice and discrimination -- The evolution of dominant-minority relations in the United States. The development of dominant-minority group relations in preindustrial America : the origins of slavery -- Industrialization and dominant-minority relations : from slavery to segregation and the coming of postindustrial society -- Understanding dominant-minority relations in the United States today. African Americans : from segregation to modern institutional discrimination and modern racism -- American Indians : from conquest to tribal survival in a postindustrial society -- Hispanic Americans : colonization, immigration, and ethnic enclaves -- Asian Americans : a "model minorities"? -- Challenges for the present and the future. New Americans, assimilation, and old challenges -- Minority groups and U.S. society : themes, patterns, and the future ER -