Product Description: Stephen Steinberg offers a bold challenge to prevailing thought on race and ethnicity in American society. In a penetrating critique of the famed race relations paradigm, he asks why a paradigm invented four decades before the Civil Rights Revolution still dominates both academic and popular discourses four decades after that revolution...read more

Product Description: Winner of the ASA, Oliver Cox Award for Anti-Racist ScholarshipFrom the author of The Ethnic Myth comes this cogent analysis of how social science has placed a liberal gloss on racism and failed to champion civil rights. From a powerful critique of Gunnar Myrdal's classic An American Dilemma to a new epilogue that dismantles the myth of black progress, Turning Back offers a challenge to liberals as well as conservatives, blacks as well as whites, who have fueled the current backlash by providing a spurious intellectual cover for gutting affirmative action and other policies designed to advance the cause of racial justice...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Challenges the traditional American myths of race and ethnicity, examining the cultural diversity of American society and the success or failure of a variety of immigrant groups (view table of contents)

Product Description: This volume brings together some of the clearest and most incisive recent scholarship on race and ethnicity, with a focus on key policy issues. The first half of the book focuses on the dismantling of anti-racist policies in the post-civil rights era, beginning with a general assessment of "race" in America thirty years after the historic Kerner Commission Report...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This complete guide to writing in the social sciences is appropriate for freshman composition courses where social sciences writing is emphasized. This complete guide to writing in the social sciences is appropriate for freshman composition courses where social sciences writing is emphasized...read more