Product Description
The first reader to cover the scope of oppressions in America, Readings for Diversity and Social Justice covers six thematic issues: racism, sexism, Anti-Semitism, heterosexism, classism and ableism. The Reader contains a mix of short personal and theoretical essays as well as entries designed to challenge students to take action to end oppressive behavior and to affirm diversity and racial justice. Each thematic section is broken down into three divisions: Cont… More >>
#1 by Gregory Moss on January 25, 2010 - 11:18 pm
If you are white, you need to read this book to find out how evil your are. Then, you can begin deconstructing your whiteness.
If you are a person of color, you need to read this book to find out how helpless you are. Those evil crackers have been oppressing you, and you didn’t even know it. It’s time to get angry and play identity politics. You are not an individual, but the member of a tribe.
Gender, race and class determine everything from how you butter your toast in the morning to the direction the wind is blowing on any given day. I swear.
I read this book on my way to getting a California teaching credential and, while reading it, underwent an epiphany of Krakatoan proportions: We have met the enemy, and he is us.
Now go forth and conquer your -isms and everybody else’s. You’ll find that the feeling of moral superiority is quite heady. Ciao.
Rating: 1 / 5
#2 by Asenett Rosario on January 26, 2010 - 1:58 am
The servise was nothing short of what I expected. Thank you very much. I needed it for a class and I got the books woth time to spare.
Rating: 5 / 5
#3 by College Student on January 26, 2010 - 3:48 am
Book is a collection of narratives from perspectives of each diverse group. Not a joy to read, but not bad for a college text either. Personally I would much rather read short narratives than long and boring texts.
However, the multicultural agenda is really what this is book is all about. Some readings are offensive; generalities are made and stir some controversy in and out of the classroom.
I rated it 3 stars because it is not as bad as most multicultural texts from other classes.
Rating: 3 / 5
#4 by Rosemarie De Angelis on January 26, 2010 - 5:07 am
Good collection of writings on these issues. I had this as a text for a course I took and I thought it was a good book–rare for a textbook.
Rating: 4 / 5
#5 by Gail M. Ruhland on January 26, 2010 - 7:18 am
The book was in excellent condition and arrived in a timely manner … Along with an excellent price … I would buy more from this seller!
Rating: 5 / 5