1st Edition

Race and Ethnic Relations in Today's America

By Greg Oswald Copyright 2001

    This title was first published in 2001. A unique investigation of race and ethnic relations in today’s America, exploring the nature and extent of non-white socio-economic progress since 1990 and the degree of improvement in the overall racial and ethnic climate during the same period.

    Contents: Introduction; Demographic figures and trends; Black middle class, black underclass; Housing and education; Unemployment and income disparities; Crime, health and the media; Politics; Middleman, model and silent minorities?; Affirmative action; Immigration; An overview; Bibliography; Index.

    Biography

    Greg Oswald

    ’The volume is to be recommended as an introduction as it addresses the central and current issues to date which make up the topic of ethnic and race relations in the US...In addition, Oswald’s study offers a wealth of statistics that could be perfectly useful as a supplement for ethnological investigation.’ Ethnoscripts