Böcker av Peter I. Rose

This volume of commentaries on racial and ethnic relations is a sociological assessment of a changing society and a personal statement about many of the most pressing racial issues since the 1954 Brown-Supreme court decision

This book is the second of a two-volume set exploring the controversies about the experiences of Americans from Africa

Peter Rose has spent a lifetime exploring patterns of culture, examining issues of race, ethnicity, working with refugees, teaching sociology ad roaming the world. Here, he reflects on his adventures and the formative experiences that led him into a fascination with lives seemingly unlike our own.

A leading text in the field of racial and ethnic relations in the United States, this book offers an introduction to the critical study of America's people, their origins and encounters. It examines the roots of prejudice, patterns of discrimination, the meaning of "minority status," and the issues of power, politics, and pluralism.