Race and Ethnic Relations in Today's America (Interdisciplinary Research Series in Ethnic, Gender and Class Relations)

Providing an up-to-date study of all the major skin-colour groupings in the contemporary USA, this book examines relations from two angles: the nature and extent of non-white socio-economic progress since 1990 and the degree of improvement in the overall racial and ethnic climate since then.The work makes extensive use of statistics on such matters as employment and income disparities, residential and educational patterns and congressional representation at federal level to investigate the first of these issues. It considers the latter through more recent reactions of discrete groups to long-standing issues such as immigration, welfare reform and affirmative action. Although the main focus is on public policy debates, the book also looks at racial stereotyping in the healthcare and criminal justice systems; the role of non-whites in the media, including the Internet; minority support for President Clinton during the Monica Lewinsky crisis; and other developments of general interest.As Ellis Cashmore states in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Greg Oswald reminds us that the concepts of racism and cultural diversity may be contradictory, but they are not mutually exclusive. 'The suggestion here is that race is such an integral part of American culture that it has become part of the way people think about themselves and hence part of their cultural identity.'Greg Oswald is the author of 'Race and Ethnic Relations in Today's America (Interdisciplinary Research Series in Ethnic, Gender and Class Relations)' with ISBN 9780754615842 and ISBN 0754615847.