Racial and Ethnic Groups, Global Edition, 14th edition

For courses in Introductory Econometrics

For courses in Race and Ethnic Relations

Understand the changing dynamics of the U.S. population

Understanding race and ethnic relations is essential to understanding the United States — where we’ve been as well as where we’re going. Throughout the fourteenth edition of Race and Ethnic Relations, author Richard T. Schaefer helps students view race and ethnic relations in a socio-historical context, so they can understand the past and best shape the future.

The text’s student-friendly framework is packed with engaging first-person accounts that illuminate the changing dynamics of the U.S. population, and reveal the stories behind these changes. Incorporating the latest statistics and data, Race and Ethnic Relations enables educators to stay current in this ever-changing area of study.

MySocLab is not included. Students, if MySocLab is a recommended/mandatory component of the course, please ask your instructor for the correct ISBN. MySocLab should only be purchased when required by an instructor. Instructors, contact your Pearson representative for more information. MySocLab is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment product designed to personalize learning and improve results. With a wide range of interactive, engaging, and assignable activities, students are encouraged to actively learn and retain tough course concepts.

Make learning accessible with a student-friendly framework

• Author Rick Schaefer’s clear and current writing style engages students and educators alike.
• Learning Objectives provide a framework as students work through the course. Objectives are explicitly identified at the beginning of each chapter, and the numbered Summary points and Review Questions at the conclusion of each chapter are tied specifically to each objective.
• Critical-thinking Questions jumpstart classroom discussion and offer suggestions for student essay topics.
• NEW! Additional Key Terms help students master the vocabulary of, and concepts behind, the study of racial and ethnic groups. Key terms added to the 14th Edition include "environmental refugees," "feminism," "kanaka maoli," "medical apartheid," "religion," "segmented assimilation," and "two-state solution."

• Speaking Out features in every chapter provide firsthand commentaries on race and ethnicity in America, helping students to appreciate the expression and passion of racial and ethnic groups in response to prejudice and challenges. Excerpts are included from the writings or speeches of noted individuals such as Elie Wiesel, W. E. B. DuBois, Tomás R. Jiménez, Helen Zia, and Nelson Mandela.
• Research Focus boxes provide timely and interesting research about particular groups and their experiences within the dominant culture, helping students gain insights into the ever-changing nature of race and ethnicity. And A Global View boxes profile racial and ethnic issues in other nations, helping students to see similarities in racial and ethnic issues globally. A total of 18 of these Research and Global View boxes are new to the 14th Edition.
• Visually rich Spectrum of Intergroup Relations figures reinforce the experience of a particular group within the dominant White culture of the U.S. A comprehensive Spectrum of Intergroup Relations at the end of the final chapter ties together the observations from throughout the text.

Teach using the most updated data and contemporary examples

• NEW! The addition of fresh, updated coverage keeps the material contemporary and engaging. The 14th Edition includes entirely new sections on why hate crimes carry harsher penalties, avoiding racial and ethnic groups through the Internet, the African American middle class, the state of education among Hispanics, and contemporary feminism.
• NEW! Incorporation of the most recent data releases from the Census Bureau through the annual American Community Survey ensures that information is as up to date as possible. Over 30 percent of the citations in the references are new since the last edition.
• The 14th Edition includes relevant scholarly findings from economics, anthropology, social psychology, and communication sciences. This material helps students place what they’re learning in context across various disciplines.

• Additional Key Terms help students master the vocabulary of, and concepts behind, the study of racial and ethnic groups. Key terms added to the fourteenth edition include "environmental refugees," "feminism," "kanaka maoli," "medical apartheid," "religion," "segmented assimilation," and "two-state solution."

Teach using the most updated data and contemporary examples

• The addition of fresh, updated coverage keeps the material contemporary and engaging. The fourteenth edition includes entirely new sections on why hate crimes carry harsher penalties, avoiding racial and ethnic groups through the Internet, the African American middle class, the state of education among Hispanics, and contemporary feminism.
• Incorporation of the most recent data releases from the Census Bureau through the annual American Community Survey ensures that information is as up to date as possible. Over 30 percent of the citations in the references are new since the last edition.

MySocLab is not included. Students, if MySocLab is a recommended/mandatory component of the course, please ask your instructor for the correct ISBN. MySocLab should only be purchased when required by an instructor. Instructors, contact your Pearson representative for more information.

MySocLab is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to work with this text to engage students and improve results. Within its structured environment, students practice what they learn, test their understanding, and pursue a personalized study plan that helps them better absorb course material and understand difficult concepts.

II. Content Updates
1. Exploring Race and Ethnicity
• New opening examples
• New Jeff Parker cartoon on changing racial and ethnic landscape
• Updated all statistics per the latest American Community Survey 2010 data
• New census data now allows listing of Arab Americans among major racial groups
• Table of metropolitan segregation data for African Americans, Hispanics, and Asian Americans
• 2012 map of minority population by counties
• Proposed census changes for racial/ethnic categories for 2020
• Racial and ethnic population projections for 2060 including data for Arab and Biracial Americans
2. Prejudice
• New opening example on impact of racial names on allocating public assistance
• Research Focus: Virtual Prejudice and Anti-Prejudice
• Speaking Out: Gangsters, Gooks, Geishas, and Geeks, by Helen Zia
• 2012 data on police profiling in New York City
• New section on avoidance of racial and ethnic groups via the Internet
• New cartoon on workplace diversity
• 2012 data on foreign-born workers
3. Discrimination
• Actions in Czech republic taken on Roma schooling
• Section: What Are Hate Crimes?
• Section: Why Do Hate Crimes Carry Harsher Penalties?
• Figure on hate crimes (updated to 2012 release)
• Map of voter identification laws illustrates institutional discrimination
• 2013 HUD study of housing discrimination
• Tables and figure on income by race and sex, holding education constant, updated through 2013 Census reports
• Wealth inequity data updated through the recent economic slowdown
• Research Focus: The Unequal Wealth Distribution
• Implications of Fisher v. University of Texas 2013 decision outlined
• Speaking Out: The Conversation We’re Not Having When We Talk About Af