Diversity Issues
Textbook for this class will be:
On
Being Different, 3rd Edition
Conrad Kottak and K Kozaitis
Publisher: McGraw Hill
OverviewOn Being Different provides an up-to-date, comprehensive, and interdisciplinary account of diversity and multiculturalism in the United States and Canada.
Kottak and Kozaitis clarify essential issues, themes, and topics in the study of diversity, including ethnicity, religion, gender, and sexual orientation.
The book also presents an original theory of multiculturalism, showing how human agency and culture work to organize and change society. The authors use rich and varied ethnographic examples, from North America and abroad, to help students apply the material to their own lives, and thus gain a better understanding of diversity and multiculturalism.
Table of contents1. Introduction
2. Culture
3. From Territory to Identity
4. The Multicultural Society
5. Ethnicity
6. Race: Its Social Construction
7. Race: Its Biological Dimensions
8. Religion
9. Gender
10. Sexual Orientation
11. Age and Generation
12. Bodies and Fitness
13. Class
14. Where We Live
15. Speech
16. Family Background
17. Conclusion