People of Color in the United States ─ Contemporary Issues in Education, Work, Communities, Health, and Immigration

This expansive, four-volume ready reference work offers critical coverage of contemporary issues that impact people of color in the United States ranging from education and employment to health and wellness and immigration.

• Offers comprehensive coverage of contemporary issues for people of color in the United States that meets the needs of secondary librarians, teachers, and students for a variety of classes and standards

• Presents A–Z entries within four broad themes that explore the social and economic issues that will support readers' understanding of the experiences of people of color in the United States

• Includes debate essays highlighting a variety of viewpoints on key issues from scholars that provide readers with models of critical thinking

• Contains up-to-date information appropriate for classes on history; sociology; psychology; geography, economics; urbanization, immigration and industrialization; and contemporary American society

Kofi Lomotey is the Bardo Distinguished Professor of Educational Leadership at Western Carolina University.

Pamela Braboy Jackson, PhD, is the inaugural director of the Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society (CCRES) and professor of sociology at Indiana University.

Muna Adem is a doctoral student in the sociology PhD program at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Paulina X. Ruf, DPhil, is professor of sociology at Seminole State College, Sanford, FL.

Valire Carr Copeland, PhD, MPH, MSW, is associate dean of academic affairs and associate professor in the School of Social Work and Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences, and the associate director of the Public Health Social Work Training Program, at the University of Pittsburgh's Graduate School of Public Health.

Alvaro Huerta, PhD, holds a joint faculty appointment in urban and region planning and ethnic and women's studies at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

Norma Iglesias-Prieto, PhD, a transborder scholar, is professor and chair of the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at San Diego State University (SDSU).

Donathan L. Brown, PhD, is assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Ithaca College and editor of theJournal of Race and Policy.