Strangers to These Shores: Race and Ethnic Relations in the United States (9th Edition)

This top-selling, comprehensive text on racial and ethnic relations in the U.S. covers theoretical issues and the experiences of more than 50 racial, ethnic, and religious groups. Strangers to these Shores provides broad, yet specific coverage of Europeans, Native Americans, African Americans, Hispanics, Arabs, religious minorities, and women as a minority group.

This text systematically applies the three main sociological perspectives as a consistent framework for analysis. Also, it introduces “the stranger” concept in an analysis of the stranger as a social phenomena, and the text continues to carry this unifying theme throughout the study of all minority groups. This text provides first-hand immigrant accounts and comparative examples from other countries through “Ethnic Experience” and “International Scene” boxes.

The final chapter, “The Ever-Changing U.S. Mosaic,” brings synthesis to the many groups represented in the text.

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A text for undergraduates, seeking to understand diversity in America through historically grounded comparative analyses of the variety and evolution of patterns of majority-minority relations in the US. Material is organized in sections on the sociological framework, European Americans, people of color, other minorities, and trends and possibilities. Includes b&w modern and historical photos, key terms, discussion questions, and boxes giving first-hand accounts of the immigrant experience. This new edition examines hate groups and hate crimes, Santer<'i>ans and Hindu Americans, and social indicators of minority progress for all minorities, and includes critical thinking questions in boxes on the international scene. Parrillo is affiliated with William Paterson University. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)