TY - BOOK AU - Healey,Joseph F. TI - Race, ethnicity, gender, and class: the sociology of group conflict and change SN - 9781412987318 (pbk.) PY - 2012/// CY - Los Angeles PB - SAGE KW - Minorities KW - United States KW - Ethnicity KW - Group identity KW - Social conflict KW - Race relations KW - Ethnic relations KW - Social conditions N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 475-494) and index; Diversity in the United States : questions and concepts -- Assimilation and pluralism : from immigrants to white ethnics -- Prejudice and discrimination -- The development of dominant-minority group relations in preindustrial America : the origins of slavery -- Industrialization and dominant-minority relations : from slavery to segregation and the coming of postindustrial society -- African Americans : from segregation to modern institutional discrimination and modern racism -- American Indians : from conquest to tribal survival in a postindustrial society -- Hispanic Americans : colonization, immigration, and ethnic enclaves -- Asian Americans :'model minorities'? -- New Americans, assimilation, and old challenges -- Minority groups and U.S. society : themes, patterns, and the future ER -