Social Inequalities in Comparative Perspective
Contributors: Fiona Devine (Editor)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: January 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780631226840
Subjects: Social Classes; Social Science; Sociology; Essays; Social Science / Sociology / General; Reference; Cross-cultural studies; Equality; Inâegalitâe sociale; Social stratification; âEtudes transculturelles
First sentence: Racial and ethnic divisions in the United States originated in three distinct historical processes: (1) slavery and the forced migration of Africans in the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries; (2) the expansion of the US through conquest of the indigenous American Indians and the annexation of Spanish-speaking people in the Southwest; and (3) centuries of voluntary immigration from around the globe.