Race and Ethnicity: The Basics

Peter Kivisto is Richard Swanson Professor of Social Thought at Augustana College and Finland Distinguished Professor at the University of Turku. He is the editor of Intersecting Inequalities: Class, Race, Sex and Sexualities and Incorporating Diversity: Rethinking Assimilation in a Multicultural Age and author of Multiculturalism in Global Society among many other publications.Paul R. Croll is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Augustana College. His articles have appeared in Social Forces, Social Problems, and The American Sociologist.

• 1. Defining the Subject: What is Meant by Race and Ethnicity?  2. Prejudice and Discrimination  3. Intersecting Inequalities  4. The Varieties of Ethnic Conflict  5. Modes of Incorporation  6. Combating Oppression and Exclusion