ABSTRACT

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 https://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license. 

chapter 1|16 pages

Thinking About Diversity

chapter 3|26 pages

Race and Racial Thinking

chapter 4|27 pages

Ethnicity

Beyond the Race Binary

chapter 5|22 pages

Class

chapter 6|26 pages

Sex and Gender

Male and Female

chapter 7|26 pages

Sex and Gender

Beyond the Gender Binary

chapter 8|28 pages

Language

chapter 9|27 pages

Religion

chapter 10|31 pages

Age

chapter 11|26 pages

Health and (Dis)ability

chapter 12|36 pages

Region and Geography

The Spatial Distribution of Diversity