Rating:  Summary: Rothenberg and Zinn Review: A colleague of mine introduced me to this book in 1991 while we were teaching courses in women's issues and human diversity. I have since used this book -- every single edition -- as a required text in human diversity at three major universities. Currently I am teaching in a graduate social work program in a rural setting at a small state university and will be using this text again for the third consecutive year. The students have consistently rated this book highly because of the interesting articles that Ms. Rothenberg has included. They actually enjoy reading the book. The articles are informative, provocative and timeless and give the students an excellent historical context and lens through which they can analyze and understand some of the most burning and divisive contemporary issues. I am reminded of Howard Zinn. I hope Ms. Rothenberg continues to publish this rich material. She tells the true story!
Rating:  Summary: Excellent service Review: For some reasons I got the wrong edition. However, Paola Footer not only gave me the refund but also she ask me not to turn back the book because she did not want to list an outdated book again. I strongly recommend doing business with them.
Rating:  Summary: Biggest piece of trash I've seen in all my college years Review: I've never seen a more lie-filled, biased, and truth-"colored" book as this one. There is no logic, there is no fact, there is only much misinformation.
Rating:  Summary: Biggest piece of trash I've seen in all my college years Review: I've never seen a more lie-filled, biased, and truth-"colored" book as this one. There is no logic, there is no fact, there is only much misinformation.
Rating:  Summary: For sheep Review: It's funny how every article here says the same thing over and over again. Fair and balanced this is not. The only way you can make social change is by having open dialog, this just discourages it, making outcasts of people who disagree.That in itself is way more harmful than the "Boogie Men" who are railed against time and time again. I'm so sorry I was born a straight white man. I guess I should go feel guilty for it now. Much like the Nazis, the feminists in this book go a long way to dehumanize anybody who has a different opinion...
Rating:  Summary: where is the balance? Review: Rothenberg has been to assemble a lot of great articles but they all seem to be written by people left of center so you don't hear much diversity in terms of point of view. How much can you really learn about race, class and gender without hearing about people both from the left and the right? It seems that the left has been getting far more attention then the right. The book is filled with examples of how racism, classism and sexism still exist but none with how much society has overcome these problems and that these problems are not as big in society as you would think from reading this book.
Rating:  Summary: For sheep Review: Rothenberg puts together an excellent collection of writings addressing issues of class, gender, and race. I have used this for classes in courses addressing social problems and diversity issues with much success. Students enjoy the variety of writing styles and viewpoints and are often anxious to respond. I strongly recommend this as a text and a resource.
Rating:  Summary: Offers insightful perspectives and provokes discussion Review: Rothenberg puts together an excellent collection of writings addressing issues of class, gender, and race. I have used this for classes in courses addressing social problems and diversity issues with much success. Students enjoy the variety of writing styles and viewpoints and are often anxious to respond. I strongly recommend this as a text and a resource.
Rating:  Summary: An Outstanding Anthology for Use in College Courses Review: Rothenberg's book is an excellent resource. I've used it for years and it simply gets better. Many of the authors are people engaged in race, class, and gender struggles as activists, policy-makers, scholars, and cultural workers who are familiar with the issues up close and personal. Unlike the right-in this country that engages in armchair analysis of these issues from overtly ideological perspective they deny and refuse to acknowledge as such, the authors in this anthology provide you with their politics upfront and then with an analysis or description of an issue that is always incisive and grounded in historical and cultural understandings about the multiple systems of domination that are so alive and present in U.S. society. Its diversity and range of perspective challenges you to redefine your approach to the categories of analysis and experience covered.
Rating:  Summary: An Outstanding Anthology for Use in College Courses Review: Rothenberg's book is an excellent resource. I've used it for years and it simply gets better. Many of the authors are people engaged in race, class, and gender struggles as activists, policy-makers, scholars, and cultural workers who are familiar with the issues up close and personal. Unlike the right-in this country that engages in armchair analysis of these issues from overtly ideological perspective they deny and refuse to acknowledge as such, the authors in this anthology provide you with their politics upfront and then with an analysis or description of an issue that is always incisive and grounded in historical and cultural understandings about the multiple systems of domination that are so alive and present in U.S. society. Its diversity and range of perspective challenges you to redefine your approach to the categories of analysis and experience covered.
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