Taking sides: Clashing views on controversial issues in race and ethnicity
By: selected, edited, and with introductions by Raymond d'Angelo, Herbert Douglas.
Contributors: D'Angelo, Raymond N.; Douglas, Herbert.
Edition: 5th ed.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Dushkin
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Dubuque, Iowa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 427
Subjects: Minorities -- United States.; Social classes -- United States.; United States -- Race relations.; United States -- Ethnic relations.
Other titles: Clashing views on controversial issues in race and ethnicity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Classical issues in race and ethnicity; title: Do we need a common American identity?; title: Is immigration good for America?; title: Race relations in the nineteenth century : will accommodation insure progress?; title: Does white identity define America?; title: pt. 2. Race, prejudice, and racial minorities; title: Is skin color a proper determinant of racial identity?; title: Is race prejudice a product of group position?; title: Are definitions of race just political?; title: Do minorities engage in self-segregation?; title: Are Asian Americans a model minority?; title: Are Hispanics making economic progress?; title: pt. 3. Social and political issues of education and multiculturalism; title: Are America's schools and neighborhoods resegregated?; title: Should race be a consideration in college admissions?; title: Is a multicultural curriculum essential for advancing education?; title: Is affirmative action necessary to achieve racial inequality in the United States?; title: pt. 4. Issues for the twenty-first century; title: Is racism a permanent feature of American society?; title: Should twenty-first century public policy be class conscious rather than race conscious?; title: Is now the time for reparations for African Americans?; title: Is racial profiling defensible public policy?