Revel® Racial and Ethnic Groups
Racial and Ethnic Groups, published by Pearson, helps students view race and ethnic relations in a sociohistorical context, so they can understand the past and see how to shape the future. Engaging first-person accounts illuminate the stories behind the changing dynamics of the U.S. population.
- Speaking Out features use personal narrative to convey unique perspectives
- New Relations Across Boundaries features focus on interactions between different groups
- Thoroughly updated data and contemporary topics.
- Extensive illustration program enhances the text.
- Updated end-of-chapter assessments
Highlight the Changing Dynamics of the U.S. population
Racial and Ethnic Groups, 15th Edition helps students view race and ethnic relations in a socio-historical context, so they can understand the past and best shape the future.
Updated chapters end with critical thinking questions and resources.
Critical thinking questions at the end of each chapter encourage students to think deeply about key issues raised in the chapter, including the prejudices, interactions, and challenges faced by unique racial, ethnic, and religious groups.
Personal narratives to describe race and ethnicity experiences in America firsthand.
Speaking Out features provide firsthand commentaries on race and ethnicity in America, helping students appreciate racial and ethnic groups’ responses to prejudice and other challenges.
Illustrations enhance these narratives and broaden student understanding.
An extensive illustration program, which includes maps and political cartoons, provokes thought.
New Feature: Relations Across Boundaries.
This new feature describes the interactions between racial, ethnic, and religious groups. They help readers understand that social relationships in the United States are not necessarily defined and dominated by White Americans.
Hallmark features of Revel® Racial and Ethnic Groups
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Updated end-of-chapter resources support student understanding.
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New sections on contemporary issues.
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New chapter features explore complex racial and ethnic interactions across different American boundaries.
Updated end-of-chapter resources support student understanding.
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Key TermsKey terms are highlighted when they are introduced, collected at the end of each chapter, and listed in a chapter-ending glossary.
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Chapter ReviewChapter-ending review questions test student understanding of the chapter’s major points.
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Critical Thinking QuestionsCritical thinking questions at the end of each chapter encourage students to think deeply about key issues raised in the chapter.
New sections on contemporary issues.
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Updated ContentUpdated content includes entirely new sections on contemporary issues related to refugees, the sharing economy, and discrimination against and ongoing discussions of policy changes for the “DREAMers.”
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New Chapter 7Chapter 7, “African Americans,” explores the similarities between the Black Power and #BlackLivesMatter movements.
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New Chapter 13Chapter 13, “Chinese Americans and Japanese Americans,” examines factors explaining the persistence of anti-Asian American prejudice.
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New Chapter 15Chapter 15, “Women: The Oppressed Majority,” discusses the issue of race in the feminist movement and the 2017 Women’s March.
New chapter features explore complex racial and ethnic interactions across different American boundaries.
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Relations Across BoundariesRelations Across Boundaries features describe the interactions between racial, ethnic, and religious groups. They help readers understand that social relationships in the United States are not necessarily defined and dominated by White Americans.
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Research Focus and Global ViewResearch Focus and Global View boxes offer new insights into the ever-changing nature of race and ethnicity. Twelve of these features are new to the 15th Edition.
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About the Author
Richard T. Schaefer grew up in Chicago at a time when neighborhoods were going through transitions in ethnic and racial composition. He found himself increasingly intrigued by what was happening, how people were reacting, and how these changes were affecting neighborhoods and people’s jobs. In high school, he took a course in sociology. His interest in social issues caused him to gravitate to more sociology courses at Northwestern University, where he eventually received a B.A. in sociology.
“Originally as an undergraduate I thought I would go on to law school and become a lawyer. But after taking a few sociology courses, I found myself wanting to learn more about what sociologists studied and was fascinated by the kinds of questions they raised,” Dr. Schaefer says. “Perhaps most fascinating and, to me, relevant to the 1960s was the intersection of race, gender and social class.”
This interest led him to obtain his M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago. Dr. Schaefer’s continuing interest in race relations led him to write his master’s thesis on the membership of the Ku Klux Klan and his doctoral thesis on racial prejudice and race relations in Great Britain.
Dr. Schaefer went on to become a professor of sociology. He has taught sociology and courses on multiculturalism for 30 years. He has been invited to give special presentations on racial and ethnic diversity to students and faculty in Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio and Texas.
Dr. Schaefer is the author of Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the USA (Pearson, 2014) and Race Matters, 4th Edition (Pearson, 2012). He is the general editor of the 3-volume Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society (2008). He is also the author of the 12th Edition of Sociology: A Brief Introduction (2017), the 4th Edition of Sociology: A Modular Approach (2015), and the 7th Edition of Sociology Matters (2018). He coauthored with William Zellner the 9th Edition of Extraordinary Groups (2015). His books have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish, as well as adapted for use in Canadian colleges.
His articles and book reviews have appeared in many journals, including American Journal of Sociology, Phylon: A Review of Race and Culture, Contemporary Sociology, Sociology and Social Research, Sociological Quarterly and Teaching Sociology. He served as president of the Midwest Sociological Society from 1994 to 1995. In recognition of his achievements in undergraduate teaching, he was named Vincent de Paul Professor of Sociology in 2004.
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Brief Table of Contents
- Exploring Race and Ethnicity
- Prejudice
- Discrimination
- Immigration
- Ethnicity, Whiteness, and Religion
- Native Americans: The First Americans
- African Americans
- African Americans Today
- Latinos. Growth and Diversity
- Mexican Americans and Puerto Ricans
- Muslim and Arab Americans: Diverse Minorities
- Asian Pacific Americans: An Array of Nationalities
- Chinese Americans and Japanese Americans
- Jewish Americans: The Quest to Maintain Identity
- Women: The Oppressed Majority
- Beyond the United States: The Comparative Perspective
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