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Comprehensive yet concise, Margaret Andersen's Race in Society, Second Edition is a topical introduction to race and ethnicity organized around four key questions: What does the idea of race mean and where does it come from? What are the consequences of the social construction of race? How is racial inequality structured into social institutions? What are different policies and approaches for change toward racial justice? In her accessible, student-friendly style, Andersen introduces readers to the current scholarship on race, including recent studies conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic and the protests following the murder of George Floyd.
New to this edition: New coverage of the effects of COVID-19 included throughout the book, including its impact on anti-Asian racism, violent crime, racial disparities in health care, and people of color in low wage service jobs
Expanded discussion of immigration, including US politics about immigration and national borders displays the connection between immigration and racialization
Updated discussion of policing, police violence, and both historical and contemporary acts of vigilante "justice" against people of color
Updated information on residential and educational segregation including new material on the racial achievement gap and the effects of school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic
List of contents
PART I: THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF RACE
Chapter 1 Race: A Thoroughly Social Ideal
Chapter 2 What Do You Think? Prejudice, Racism, and Colorblindness
Chapter 3 Representing Race: Popular Culture and the Media
Chapter 4 Who Do You Think You Are? Racial Identities and Relationships
Part II: UNDERSTANDING RACIAL STRATIFICATION
Chapter 5Diverse Histories/Common Threads: Race and Ethnicity Build a Nation
Chapter 6Roots of Racial Inequality: Framing the Discussion
Part III: RACE AND SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS
Chapter 7Economic Inequality: Work, Class, and Poverty
Chapter 8Bringing It Home: Families and Communities
Chapter 9 Race and Place: Residential and Educational Segregation
Chapter 10 It Gets to You: Health Care and the Environment
Chapter 11Justice and Injustice: Race and Crime
PART IV: RACE AND SOCIAL CHANGE
Chapter 12The Long Search for Racial Justice
About the author
Margaret L. Andersen (Ph.D., M.A. University of Massachusetts, Amherst; B.A. Georgia State University) is the Edward F. and Elizabeth Goodman Rosenberg Professor of Sociology at the University of Delaware where she also holds joint appointments in Black American Studies and Women's Studies. She is the author of several books, including Thinking about Women, published in its tenth edition; the best-selling anthology, Race, Class and Gender (co-edited with Patricia Hill Collins; 9th ed.), Race and Ethnicity in Society: The Changing Landscape (co-edited with Elizabeth Higginbotham; 4th edition), Sociology: The Essentials (co-authored, Howard F. Taylor, 9th ed.), Living Art: The Life of African American Art Collector Paul Jones; and, On Land and On Sea: A Century of Women in the Rosenfeld Collection.
She is a member of the National Advisory Board for Stanford University's Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity and is the Past-Vice President of the American Sociological Association and Past President of the Eastern Sociological Society from which she received ESS Merit Award. She has received two teaching awards from the University of Delaware and two prestigious awards from her professional organizations: The Eastern Sociological Society Merit Award for career contributions and the American Sociological Association's Jessie Bernard Award, an award given for expanding the boundaries of sociology to include women. At the University of Delaware she has served in several senior administrative positions, including Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs and Diversity, Executive Director of the President's Diversity Initiative, Interim Deputy Provost, and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.
Professor Andersen is the former Vice President of the American Sociological Association (ASA) and recipient of the ASA's prestigious Jessie Bernard Award-given annually to someone whose work expands the horizons of sociology to include the study of women. She also received the 2004 Sociologists for Women in Society Feminist Lecturer Award and the 2008 Eastern Sociological Society Robin F. Williams Lecturer Award. She just completed a 10-year term as the chair of the National Advisory Board of Stanford University's Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity and is the former editor of Gender & Society.
