They and We: Racial and Ethnic Relations in the United States and Beyond

The first edition of They and We was published shortly after the March on Washington in August, 1963, where Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his memorable “I Have a Dream” speech and just before the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed by Congress. Now read by tens of thousands, this book has been updated and expanded seven times since then as it continues to provide basic grounding in the sociological study of the dilemmas of diversity in America, focusing on prejudice, discrimination, minorit...