Recognizing Race and Ethnicity: Power, Privilege, and Inequality - Paperback

by Kathleen J. Fitzgerald (Author)

This best-selling textbook explains the current state of research in the sociology of race/ethnicity, emphasizing white privilege, the social construction of race, and the newest theoretical perspectives for understanding race and ethnicity.

Author Biography

Kathleen J. Fitzgerald is a Teaching Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her teaching and research focus on social inequalities, specifically race, racism, and privilege; gender and sexualities; and food justice. She is the author of Beyond White Ethnicity: Developing a Sociological Understanding of Native American Identity Reclamation and coauthor of Sociology of Sexualities, second edition, and has published in The Sociological Quarterly, Humanity and Society and Sociological Focus.