A Nation Divided : : Diversity, Inequality, and Community in American Society / / ed. by Donna Dempster-McClain, Phyllis Moen, Henry A. Walker.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Alba, Richard,; Bern, Sandra Lipsitz,; Brown, David L.,; Butler, John Sibley,; Chan, Christopher,; Dempster-McCiain, Donna,; Ehrenberg, Ronald G.,; Elder, Glen H.,; Gibbs, James Lowell,; Hirschman, Charles,; Kohn, Melvin L.,; Lee, Marlene A.,; Lewis, Philip E.,; Logan, John,; Moen, Phyllis,; Moskos, Charles,; Olsen, Robert B.,; Rose, Peter I.,; Rothstein, Donna S.,; Snipp, C. Matthew,; Stults, Brian J.,; Tilly, Charles,; Treas, Judith,; Walker, Henry A.,; Williams, Robin M.,; Wilson, William Julius,; Yinger, J. Milton,; Zhang, Wenquan,
• HerausgeberIn: Dempster-McClain, Donna,; Moen, Phyllis,; Walker, Henry A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (360 p.) :; 23 tables, 20 drawings, 6 maps, 1 photograph

The United States will enter the twenty-first century with an increasingly diverse, unequal, and divided population. Longstanding tensions persist between ethnic groups, rich and poor, and immigrants and the native-born. New sources of strain involve sexual and gender minorities, those who possess alternate family forms, and white and nonwhite immigrants, as well as the widening gulf between rich and poor Americans.A Nation Divided offers a fresh approach to these controversial issues. In this volume, leading social scientists explore the potentially explosive combination of diversity and inequality. Using the latest theory and research, the authors show how different groups become socially and economically unequal and how such patterns of "durable inequality" affect national stability. They also discuss strategies for reducing durable inequality and creating social harmony. Their contributions address the changing demography of diversity and inequality and the interplay of diversity, inequality, and community in educational institutions, the military, the family, popular culture, and religion.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: Diversity And Inequality -- 1. Durable Inequality -- 2. Two Visions of the Relationship between Individual and Society: The Bell Curve versus Social Structure and Personality -- 3. Two Faces of Diversity: Recreating the Stranger Next Door? -- 4. Gender, Sexuality, and Inequality: When Many Become One, Who Is the One and What Happens to the Others? -- Part Two: The New Demography Of Durable Inequality -- 5. The State of the American Dream: Race and Ethnic Socioeconomic Inequality in the United States, 1970-90 -- 6. Strangers Next Door: Immigrant Groups and Suburbs in Los Angeles and New York -- 7. Jobless Poverty: A New Form of Social Dislocation in the Inner-City Ghetto -- 8. Persisting Inequality between Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan America: Implications for Theory and Policy -- Part Three: Durable Inequality In American Institutions -- Education -- 9. Do Historically Black Colleges and Universities Enhance the College Attendance of African American Youths? -- Military -- 10. Overcoming Race:Army Lessons for American Society -- 11. War's Legacy in Men's Lives -- Religion -- 12. Diversity and Consensus: What Part Does Religion Play? -- Family -- 13. Diversity in American Families -- Mass Media -- 14. Television And Diversity:The Quantum Leap Model -- Part Four:Afterword -- 15. The Reduction of Intergroup Tensions -- 16. Long Time Passing: Race, Prejudice, and the Reduction of Intergroup Tensions -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index