Experiencing race, class, and gender in the United States :
Cyrus, Virginia.
Experiencing race, class, and gender in the United States : Virginia Cyrus. - Third Edition - California : Mayfield Publishing Company ; 1999. - viii, 511 pages : ill.; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and appendices.
A new awareness of our diversity as people is the acknowledged reality of the UnitedStates in the 1990s. Students in college now will live and work in a society that ismulticultural and global, and college must prepare them for this world.Experienc-ing Race, Class, and Gender in the United States, Third Edition, provides an initialstep toward that end, offering students the opportunity to explore the complexity ofAmerican society and its historic, social, and economic makeup.The book focuseson the United States because students need to have a better understanding of theirown society before they can begin to understand and effectively interact with othercultures. In addition, the book demonstrates that no single “norm" represents theAmerican experience; instead, many points of view and wide varieties of experienceexist,and always have existed, in this country. Experiencing Race,Class,and Genderin the United States, Third Edition, introduces the basic issues of American multi-culturalism and diversity and examines the many difficult and highly politicized ques-tions posed by such complexity.
To wrestle with such questions, students first need to develop an enhanced senseof their own identities and life situations and a positive understanding of the experi-ences and values of the many different groups that make up contemporary Americansociety. In order to experience differences among groups with understanding andappreciation, and not with fear and rancor, students need to be encouraged to fosterempathy for the perspectives of those who seem different from themselves and toacknowledge the many similarities that are often overlooked.
0-7674-1003-3
United States--Social condition--1980
305.0973 / C99 1999
Experiencing race, class, and gender in the United States : Virginia Cyrus. - Third Edition - California : Mayfield Publishing Company ; 1999. - viii, 511 pages : ill.; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and appendices.
A new awareness of our diversity as people is the acknowledged reality of the UnitedStates in the 1990s. Students in college now will live and work in a society that ismulticultural and global, and college must prepare them for this world.Experienc-ing Race, Class, and Gender in the United States, Third Edition, provides an initialstep toward that end, offering students the opportunity to explore the complexity ofAmerican society and its historic, social, and economic makeup.The book focuseson the United States because students need to have a better understanding of theirown society before they can begin to understand and effectively interact with othercultures. In addition, the book demonstrates that no single “norm" represents theAmerican experience; instead, many points of view and wide varieties of experienceexist,and always have existed, in this country. Experiencing Race,Class,and Genderin the United States, Third Edition, introduces the basic issues of American multi-culturalism and diversity and examines the many difficult and highly politicized ques-tions posed by such complexity.
To wrestle with such questions, students first need to develop an enhanced senseof their own identities and life situations and a positive understanding of the experi-ences and values of the many different groups that make up contemporary Americansociety. In order to experience differences among groups with understanding andappreciation, and not with fear and rancor, students need to be encouraged to fosterempathy for the perspectives of those who seem different from themselves and toacknowledge the many similarities that are often overlooked.
0-7674-1003-3
United States--Social condition--1980
305.0973 / C99 1999