Diversity in America

by Vincent N. Parrillo

Diversity in America, Second Edition squarely addresses the topic that perhaps generates more passion, invective, and raucous debate than all others in American society today. Do we have too much immigration? Are we no longer sufficiently "American"? The depth and complexity of race relations throughout the book helps to answer these questions. Vincent N. Parrillo uses history and sociology to shed light on socially constructed myths about our past, misunderstandings from our present, and anxieties about our future that are so prevalent.    

232 pages, Paperback

First published August 8, 1995

Reviews

[Chrysanthemum · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book melted my brain. If you need a substitute for a sedative, this is it. I had to read for a college course and hated every minute of it. It mainly consisted of statistics - a whole lot of figures. I do want to make note that each racial/ethnic group is not given the same about of information as others, and I found this quite disappointing. For example, there may have been a page and a half on African Americans, but very little about other minority groups.

My teacher had us read chapter 10 to start and then work our way through the rest of the book, and I would recommend that to others because for some reason all of the meanings of the terms are in the final chapter.

If this book is not for school, I do not recommend.