Diversity in America

The updated and expanded fourth edition of Diversity in America addresses key controversial topics generating debate in US society today. The book answers these and many other questions by using history and sociology to shed light on socially constructed myths. Vincent N. Parrillo takes the reader through different American eras, beginning with the indigenous populations and continuing through colonial times, the industrial age, the information age and today. The book uses intergenerational comparisons and extrapolation of present trends into future probabilities to offer the reader a holistic analytic commentary to provide additional helpful insights and understanding. Chapter 1 Perception and Reality; Chapter 2 Diversity in Aboriginal America; Chapter 3 Diversity in Colonial Times; Chapter 4 Diversity in the Early National Period; Chapter 5 Diversity in the Age of Expansion; Chapter 6 Diversity in the Industrial Age; Chapter 7 Diversity in the Information Age; Chapter 8 Diversity in Today’s World; Chapter 9 Intergenerational Comparisons; Chapter 10 Is Multiculturalism a Threat?; Chapter 11 The Next Horizon;