The Meaning of Difference: American Constructions of Race, Sex and Gender, Social Class, Sexual Orientation, and Disability

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The Meaning of Difference focuses on the social construction of difference as it operates in American formulations of race and ethnicity, sex and gender, social class, sexual orientation, and disability. The conceptual structure of this text-reader comes from four framework essays that addressing the construction of difference, the experience of difference, the social meaning of difference, and social actions that might bridge differences. Each framework essay is followed by a set of

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Specifications

• The Meaning of Difference: American Constructions of Race, Sex and Gender, Social Class, Sexual Orientation, and Disability available on November 05 2023 from BiggerBooks for 48.06
  
• The Meaning of Difference: American Constructions of Race, Sex and Gender, Social Class, Sexual Orientation, and Disability available on February 28 2015 from Amazon for 84.95
  
• ISBN bar code 9780078111648 ξ1 registered March 17 2016
  
• ISBN bar code 9780078111648 ξ3 registered November 05 2023
  
• ISBN bar code 9780078111648 ξ2 registered February 04 2015
  
• ISBN bar code 9780078111648 ξ4 registered February 28 2015
  
• Product category is Meaning-of-Difference Karen-Rosenblum Book
• Manufacturered by McGraw-Hill
  

• Sku # 9780078111648R
  

• Product weight is 1.8 lbs.
  

The Meaning of Difference focuses on the social construction of difference as it operates in American formulations of race and ethnicity, sex and gender, social class, sexual orientation, and disability. The conceptual structure of this text-reader comes from four framework essays that addressing the construction of difference, the experience of difference, the social meaning of difference, and social actions that might bridge differences. Each framework essay is followed by a set of readings selected for readability, conceptual depth, and applicability to a variety of statuses. Boxed inserts throughout offer first-person accounts, many of them from students. The readings in this edition, which include twenty-four new readings and ten new personal accounts, have been selected to speak to contemporary assumptions of a “post-racial” America.

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References

^ The Meaning of Difference: American Constructions of Race, Sex and Gender, Social Class, Sexual Orientation, and Disability ISBN 9780078111648 (revised Jul 2024)
^ Toni-Michelle Travis, Karen Elaine RosenblumThe Meaning of Difference : American Constructions of Race, Sex and Gender, Social Class, Sexual Orientation, and Disability by Toni-Michelle Travis and Karen Elaine Rosenblum (2011, Paperback) ISBN 9780078111648 (revised Mar 2015)
^ Rosenblum, Karen; Travis, Toni-Michelle (2015). The Meaning of Difference: American Constructions of Race, Sex and Gender, Social Class, Sexual Orientation, and Disability, McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages. BiggerBooks. ISBN 9780078111648 (revised Nov 2023)
^ The Meaning of Difference: American Constructions of Race, Sex and Gender, Social Class, Sexual Orientation, and Disability, Mcgraw-hill. Amazon. ISBN 9780078111648 (revised Feb 2015)