Culture and Diversity in the United States

Culture and Diversity in the United States
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 409
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ISBN-10 : 9781317575771
ISBN-13 : 1317575776
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Book Synopsis Culture and Diversity in the United States by : Jack David Eller

Download or read book Culture and Diversity in the United States written by Jack David Eller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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