minorities

Presents the key events, legislation, media influences, major people and movements that represented racial changes in America between the 1960s and the 1980s.

Contains over twenty essays that offer varying perspectives on controversial issues related to the wage gap, such as whether it is narrowing, what causes it, and the effects of education on it.

Presents the author's interviews with contemporary poets from diverse racial, ethnic, and religious backgrounds discussing their work, lives, and creativity. Includes a selection of poems by each author.

A collection of scenes from Hispanic as well as Native American, African-American, Jewish American, and Asian-American theater; background information and discussion/analysis follow each scene.

Introduces the ethnic and group identity movements spawned by the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. Covers groups marginalized by mainstream American society by a particular characteristic such as ethnic origin, race, age, disability, and sexual orientation.

Presents a series of fourteen controversial essays that debate issues associated with racial profiling, including U.S. policy regarding profiling in a post September 11 society.

A multicultural anthology of thirty-seven short stories written between 1900 and the early 1990s, telling of how people of African, Asian, Latino, Native American, Jewish, Middle Eastern, and European descent try to reconcile their visions of America with reality.

Examines the history of discrimination and prejudice from its first recorded appearance in 380 A.D. to present crises between different races, religions, and class systems.

Presents a biography of Henry B. Gonzalez, Texas Congressman, and provides information on childhood as a Mexican-American, and his political career fighting discrimination, homelessness, and segregation.