Race, Class, and Gender in the United States | 
 enlarge | Author: Paula S. Rothenberg
Publisher: Worth Publishers
Category: Book
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 42526
Media: Paperback
Edition: Seventh Edition
Pages: 774
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.3
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 1.5
ISBN: 0716761483
Dewey Decimal Number: 305.8
EAN: 9780716761488
Publication Date: December 22, 2006
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 Looking inwards... September 11, 2007
Peter Jones (Chicago, Illinois USA)
The "RCG" text edited by Rothenberg is truly a gem. It offers a myriad of perspectives from all Americans not just those with doctorate degrees or trapped in their ivory towers. I have used the text for my courses and have not had one student indicate that it was a nothing book or that they did not learn something of value from the book. Moreover, when the book is updated, the publisher and editor put an effort into demonstrating the changing landscape that is race, class, and gender bias in the "United States of America."
It changed my life May 31, 2008
Avandaro (California USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I read the previous edition of this book in Spring of 2004 for one of my Enlgish courses in college and it literally changed my life in many shapes and forms. My intellectual knowledge has expanded tremendously on the issues of gender, racism, racial prejudice, ethnic cultures, sexism, and classism thanks to this great scholar book. On my 22nd birthday I was given this new edition and I am glad a new edition was released with more updates and information.
I recommend this book to any person interested in those issues and concepts that shape our everyday life and our sociological evolution as humans. I am a university student of history and I have found this book to be a valuable tool for research papers and self-education.
I strongly recommend this book. If you are willing to read on the social issues that are absolutely necessary to understand our political, social and economic system, please read this book.
book April 14, 2008
Laura Parsons (michigan)
0 out of 6 found this review helpful
Good price and fast shipping. Although class required it, I never opened it. Shipped in great condition though. I plan to pass it down to a freshman.
 Race, class and gender in the United Staes October 24, 2008
Patricia
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The book is a text used for a class by the same name I found it interesting and informative.
 Author's personal biased prevents an objective book on race relations in U.S.? October 9, 2007
B. Yager (United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is awful because it provides only one perspective on race relations in America and refuses to address counterpoints. The articles in the book all are written well with lots of rhetoric to make the ignorant by their own perspectives. However, the articles neglect substance or if there is any, they will purposely segregate their facts. For example, many of the articles complain about discrimination minorities for income, yet they completely ignore the hard facts that college educated Asian women and black women make more money than white women as well as Asian men making more money than white men. They twist their facts and they also completely ignore that blacks and hispanics commit more crime than whites. They believe this is the result of the innocent going to jail for crimes they have not commit. Sure, whites do commit crimes like any other group and there has been a significant past discrimination on minorities in the past, yet in modern times, there are going racial conflict, which is the result of minority groups being hostile towards the majority. This book rejects to point this out or that if your a minority, you are human as well, and are capable of the same acts. This book will blame slavery being exclusively a white on black crime when their whites as slaves owned by blacks and Muslims in North Africa, which were more.
If you want a more objective book on race, I recommend "Race and Culture" by Thomas Sowell, who is black.
If you want a far right perspective that will attempt to address counter points as well, I recommend "My Awakening" by David Duke.
If you want a perspective that focuses on a color blind society on race, I recommend "The End of Racism" by Dinesh D'Souza.
Only read this book if you want a crazy unobjective poorly structure arguments from the left. However, if you want a better understanding of race relations, read elsewhere.
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