Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class: The Sociology of Group Conflict and Change

SAGE & Pine Forge Press congratulate esteemed author Joseph F. Healey for winning the 2007 "Texty" Textbook Excellence Award from the Text and Academic Authors Association for his textbook Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class, 4th Edition!

The text that has been very popular among undergraduate students studying race and ethnicity has been updated and revised in this new Fourth Edition! Written in a clear, consistent style, this best-selling text eloquently describes and, at times, serves as a conduit for a broad spectrum of experiences related to race, ethnicity, gender, and class. Author Joseph F. Healey uses sociological theory to tell the story of race and other socially constructed inequalities in the United States with consistency and clarity. 

Key Features and Updates to the Fourth Edition: 

• All new 2-Color scheme
• All new Chapter 11, "New Americans: Immigration and Assimilation"
• All new Public Sociology Assignments within each PART
• All new "Photo Essays" within most of the chapters that visually reinforce key concepts in a dramatic and memorable fashion
• Provides "Current Debates" at the end of chapters on important issues, expressed through the ideas and writings of prominent scholars
• Includes "Narrative Portraits" -- first person accounts -- that are threaded throughout the text
• Updated Exhibits with 2002 census information