This book examines the major theoretical and empirical approaches regarding race/ethnicity. Its goal is to continue to place race and ethnic relations in a contemporary, intersectional, and cross-comparative context and progress the discipline to include groups past the Black/White dichotomy. Using various sociological theories, social psychological theories, and subcultural approaches, this book gives students a sociohistorical, theoretical, and institutional frame with which to view race and ethnic relations in the twenty-first century.
Rashawn Ray is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland. He does research on the determinants and consequences of social class identification, men's treatment of women, and the role race plays in social life. Ray has been awarded funding from the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Mental Health, the American Sociological Association Minority Fellowship Program, the Society for the Study of Social Problems, the Ford Foundation, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Ray has taught at Indiana University and the University of Mannheim-Germany.