For one semester/one quarter Sociology courses in Race and Ethnic Relations.
Richard Schaefer grew up in Chicago in the 1960's, at a time when neighborhoods were going through transitions in ethnic and racial composition. He found himself fascinated by what was happening, how people were reacting, and how these changes were affecting neighborhoods and people's jobs. These experiences led to a career in sociolog, and he is now a leading scholar on racial and ethnic relations.
This book grew out of his desire to help students to understand the changing dynamics of the U.S. population. This text is an accessible, comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the issues confronting racial and ethnic groups in both the U.S. and other countries. Organized first by issues and then by major racial and ethnic groups. The text examines each group’s history, explores its current situation, and its concerns for the future.
This is a college-level ethics requirement?? No wonder Enron and Arthur Anderson cooked their books. Business people of today graduated college not with lessons on how to behave in business, but rather this extreme leftist spin which can be summarized in five words: "whites bad, everyone else good." In fact, those words, in one way or another, made up the introductions and conclusions to nearly every paper I wrote in this required class, and my final score was an "A."
Schaefer obviously suffered some trauma or another at the hands of white-Anglo-Saxon-Protestant capitalists and he vents his frustrations in typical liberal style - by skewing facts and spouting rhetoric at every turn. This should be required reading for a critical thinking class, as nearly every sentence violates some fallacy or another. His book is a classic example of revisionist history at its finest (or worst, depending upon one's viewpoint).
I could write volumes debunking his "fallacy by omission" techniques which continue, page-after-page, like some anti-white propaganda paper from The Bizzarro Klu Klux Klan. Instead, I'll point out a few key "facts" Mr. Schaefer tries to pass off on unsuspecting college students, already primed for such drivel by the U.S. public education system.
Mr. Schafer: Blacks earn lower incomes than whites because of racism and discrimination. Omitted facts: Blacks suffer a much higher rate of teen pregnancy than whites, significantly lowering average earning wages because young mothers have fewer educational opportunities and mobilities. Blacks who have earned doctorates are primarily in the field of education, a low-paying career path, whereas whites tend to gravitate toward law, science, medicine, and other high-paying jobs. Schaefer also neglects to mention that Japanese Americans - once greatly discriminated against in this country - generally earn higher than whites. Using Schaefer's argument of racism vs. earnings, there must be some serious antiwhite, pro-Asian discrimination going on in this country. In fact, Chinese and Japanese Americans are so consistent in their higher earnings that Schaefer had to "dumb them down" by lumping these two groups into into a category known as "Asians and pacific islanders."
Mr. Schaefer: IQ tests are culturally biased in favor of whites, resulting in lower IQ scores for blacks and hispanics. Schaefer's argument: a particular question may ask the test taker to compare objects, such as a regatta and oars, to some other set of objects. Clearly, an underprivileged black or Hispanic child has never heard of a regatta. Omitted facts: for over a generation, IQ tests have done away with standard objects, and replaced them with nonsense words, such as a sploible and a fluggum. These words have no English definition, and thus cannot be racially biased.
For people such as Mr. Schaefer the only possible solution to lower income, poor scores on standardized tests, and every other conceivable woe regarding "subordinate" groups is discrimination, so let's throw more money at the problem.
There is big business in lawsuits when a "subordinate" can shakedown a financial institute, lender, government agency, or employer for millions over discrimination. Schaefer helps proliferate such lawsuits in this book. The sad thing is that you and I pay for this. Whether its tax money, or increased prices for consumers to offset the millions lost by Denny's restaurants when some black customers got their food late, we all lose.
Thanks Schaefer.
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I am happy I have no complaints. Book came with another order on the same day within the time promised. Perfect condition, packeged well.
Good for beginners This is a great book for those who have already studied in a basic Sociology course and would like to broaden his/her studies on Race, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism. This textbook is nicely organized and is written in a simple, straight-forward way.
Shipped fast, Great Condition I needed this book for college, item was much cheaper then purchasing from school. Shipped very fast, arrived in excellent condition. No marks, highlighting, no damage. The book also came with a cd-rom.
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