Culture and Diversity in the United States - So Many Ways to Be American

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.

List of contents

About This Book
Chapter 1 Thinking about Diversity
Chapter 2 Inter-group Relations and the History of Diversity in the United States
Chapter 3 Race and Racial Thinking
Chapter 4 Race and Ethnicity: Beyond the Black/White Binary
Chapter 5 Class and Socioeconomic Inequality
Chapter 6 Sex and Gender: Male and Female
Chapter 7 Sex and Gender: Beyond the Gender Binary
Chapter 8 Age and Generation
Chapter 9 Language
Chapter 10 Religion
Chapter 11 Health and (Dis)ability
Chapter 12 Region and Geographical Distribution

About the author

Jack David Eller is a cultural anthropologist and Distinguished Professor of Anthropology with Woxsen University in Hyderabad, India. His research interests include religion, psychological anthropology, violence, and ethnicity and diversity. An experienced teacher and author, his other books for Routledge include Cultural Anthropology: Global Forces, Local Lives; Introducing Anthropology of Religion; and Psychological Anthropology for the 21st Century.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Jack David Eller, Jack David (Community College of Denver Eller, Eller Jack David
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.12.2024
• EAN: 9781032701714
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3270171-4
• No. of pages: 316
• Series: Anthropology of Now
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Ethnic Studies, Sociology, Cultural Studies, North America, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Gender studies, gender groups, Social classes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity