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Race and Ethnicity in the United States: Issues and Debates

ISBN: 978-0-631-20831-0

December 1999

Wiley-Blackwell

368 pages

Description
This volume brings together some of the most incisive recent scholarship on race, ethnicity and public policy.
About the Author
Stephen Steinberg is Professor of Urban Studies at Queens College and a Professor of Sociology at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York. His previous books include The Ethnic Myth: Race, Ethnicity, and Class in America and Turning Back: The Retreat from Racial Justice in American Thought and Policy which received the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship. In addition to his academic work, he has published articles in The Nation, Reconstruction, and New Politics.
Features

  • Addresses key issues related to race and ethnicity subject to current debate and controversy

  • Explores the intersections among the academy, public policy, and popular understandings of race and ethnicity

  • Two readings for each issue offer contrasting viewpoints