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Racial and Ethnic Groups, 9th Edition

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This textbook on race relations is decent and many of the students said they found it useful, but no one thought it was a great text. I find it extremely boring, expecially when compared to the far more complete text by Farley, "Majority-Minority Relations." Schaeffer's approach seems to be to cover lots of topics, but none with any depth. The text is adequate but I am disappointed with its lack of depth. I do think it is a very useful book, nonetheless, for the beginning student and for the professor who perhaps is looking for a text that will be non-threatening to the student.

I saved a lot of $ by purchasing this older edition rather than the required text for my class. So far everything has been fine as far as material matching up and key concepts. Completely worth it for me and I would recommend.

If and when the "great toilet paper shortage" of the 21st century comes, I will be able to take solice in the fact that this useless (and racist) book is on my shelf for those times of need!

This book is very Liberal sided. University Of Phoenix (Axia) charges its students $85 for this piece of trash. It is not worth what Amazon is charging either. A student is better off teaching the material to theirself via the Internet.

Product was just as described and in excellent shape!!!! Selling price was great for the new condition of the book.

This book is written in the most insulting way. Author is overly opinionated and makes sweeping generalizations about all racial groups. Author makes bold statements that are unsupported, except by opinion. Here's a quote from the book about white ethnic groups (like German, Irish, Polish, etc.), "Whites as people don't think of themselves as a race or have a conscious racial identity. The only occasion when a White racial identity emerges is momentarily when Whites fill out a form asking for self-designation of a race or one of those occasions when they are culturally or socially surrounded by people who are not White. (page 121)" This is insulting to all who honor their cultural heritage. I am proud of my "White ethnic heritage", just as much as anyone from any other ethnic group should be. Thank goodness the class using this book is almost over!

I received by textbook before the schedule arrival date. The book is in excellent condition. I've only read chapter one so far and it was very interesting to my surprise. I anticipated that the class would be boring but not anymore.

I like this book it is very informative. The only thing I would suggest is to answer the questions in the back so you fully understand the concept of each chapter. The tests are very hard if you don't study!

The company that sold me the book was sooo awesome! They sent the book so fast and responded to emails very quickly..Thanks for that!

This is a great book for those who have already studied in a basic Sociology course and would like to broaden his/her studies on Race, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism. This textbook is nicely organized and is written in a simple, straight-forward way.

No wonder Enron and Arthur Anderson cooked their books. Business people of today graduated college not with lessons on how to behave in business, but rather this extreme leftist spin which can be summarized in five words: "whites bad, everyone else good." In fact, those words, in one way or another, made up the introductions and conclusions to nearly every paper I wrote in this required class, and my final score was an "A."

Schaefer obviously suffered some trauma or another at the hands of white-Anglo-Saxon-Protestant capitalists and he vents his frustrations in typical liberal style - by skewing facts and spouting rhetoric at every turn. This should be required reading for a critical thinking class, as nearly every sentence violates some fallacy or another. His book is a classic example of revisionist history at its finest (or worst, depending upon one's viewpoint).

I could write volumes debunking his "fallacy by omission" techniques which continue, page-after-page, like some anti-white propaganda paper from The Bizzarro Klu Klux Klan. Instead, I'll point out a few key "facts" Mr. Schaefer tries to pass off on unsuspecting college students, already primed for such drivel by the U.S. public education system.

Mr. Schafer: Blacks earn lower incomes than whites because of racism and discrimination.
Omitted facts: Blacks suffer a much higher rate of teen pregnancy than whites, significantly lowering average earning wages because young mothers have fewer educational opportunities and mobilities. Blacks who have earned doctorates are primarily in the field of education, a low-paying career path, whereas whites tend to gravitate toward law, science, medicine, and other high-paying jobs. Schaefer also neglects to mention that Japanese Americans - once greatly discriminated against in this country - generally earn higher than whites. Using Schaefer's argument of racism vs. earnings, there must be some serious antiwhite, pro-Asian discrimination going on in this country. In fact, Chinese and Japanese Americans are so consistent in their higher earnings that Schaefer had to "dumb them down" by lumping these two groups into into a category known as "Asians and pacific islanders."

Mr. Schaefer: IQ tests are culturally biased in favor of whites, resulting in lower IQ scores for blacks and hispanics. Schaefer's argument: a particular question may ask the test taker to compare objects, such as a regatta and oars, to some other set of objects. Clearly, an underprivileged black or Hispanic child has never heard of a regatta.
Omitted facts: for over a generation, IQ tests have done away with standard objects, and replaced them with nonsense words, such as a sploible and a fluggum. These words have no English definition, and thus cannot be racially biased.

For people such as Mr. Schaefer the only possible solution to lower income, poor scores on standardized tests, and every other conceivable woe regarding "subordinate" groups is discrimination, so let's throw more money at the problem.

There is big business in lawsuits when a "subordinate" can shakedown a financial institute, lender, government agency, or employer for millions over discrimination. Schaefer helps proliferate such lawsuits in this book. The sad thing is that you and I pay for this. Whether its tax money, or increased prices for consumers to offset the millions lost by Denny's restaurants when some black customers got their food late, we all lose.

Thanks Schaefer.