Richard L. Zweigenhaft is Charles A. Dana Professor of Psychology at Guilford College. He is the co-editor of Collaboration in Psychological Science.G. William Domhoff is Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Research Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of a number of books, including Who Rules America?Over the past three decades, the authors have written a series of books together, including Blacks in the White Elite and The New CEOs.

This is the third edition of Diversity in the Power Elite, and each edition bears its own subtitle (1st ed., subtitled Have Women and Minorities Reached the Top?, CH, Jul'98, 35-6547; 2nd ed., How It Happened, Why It Matters, CH, Apr'07, 44-4767). The subtitle of the present edition signifies Zweigenhaft and Domhoff 's shift in emphasis, with a series of chapters describing the modest increase in diversity in the power elite. . . chapters on Jews, women, blacks, Latinos, Asians, and LGBT people form the core of the book. The most interesting chapter is the last one, "The Ironies of Diversity." The authors argue that the central irony is that the diversity achieved "reinforces the unchanging nature of the class structure and increases the tendency to ignore class inequalities." Another featured irony is the "improbable partnership" between African American leaders and Republican leaders to redistrict southern states into a few majority African American congressional districts and mostly predominately white districts with Republican majorities. To understand the limited gains in diversity, one must understand that class, education, and skin color are crucial, as is the ability to conform to the white Christian male culture that still dominates the upper echelon of US society.Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates.

• Chapter1. The Ironies and Unfulfilled Promises of DiversityChapter 2. Jews in the Power EliteChapter 3. Women in the Power EliteChapter 4. Blacks in the Power EliteChapter 5. Latinos in the Power EliteChapter 6. Asian Americans and South Asians in the Power EliteChapter 7. LGBT People in the Power EliteChapter 8. The Ironies of Diversity

Richard L. Zweigenhaft is Charles A. Dana Professor of Psychology at Guilford College. He is the co-editor of Collaboration in Psychological Science.G. William Domhoff is Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Research Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of a number of books, including Who Rules America?Over the past three decades, the authors have written a series of books together, including Blacks in the White Elite and The New CEOs.

This is the third edition of Diversity in the Power Elite, and each edition bears its own subtitle (1st ed., subtitled Have Women and Minorities Reached the Top?, CH, Jul'98, 35-6547; 2nd ed., How It Happened, Why It Matters, CH, Apr'07, 44-4767). The subtitle of the present edition signifies Zweigenhaft and Domhoff 's shift in emphasis, with a series of chapters describing the modest increase in diversity in the power elite. . . chapters on Jews, women, blacks, Latinos, Asians, and LGBT people form the core of the book. The most interesting chapter is the last one, "The Ironies of Diversity." The authors argue that the central irony is that the diversity achieved "reinforces the unchanging nature of the class structure and increases the tendency to ignore class inequalities." Another featured irony is the "improbable partnership" between African American leaders and Republican leaders to redistrict southern states into a few majority African American congressional districts and mostly predominately white districts with Republican majorities. To understand the limited gains in diversity, one must understand that class, education, and skin color are crucial, as is the ability to conform to the white Christian male culture that still dominates the upper echelon of US society.Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates.

• Chapter1. The Ironies and Unfulfilled Promises of DiversityChapter 2. Jews in the Power EliteChapter 3. Women in the Power EliteChapter 4. Blacks in the Power EliteChapter 5. Latinos in the Power EliteChapter 6. Asian Americans and South Asians in the Power EliteChapter 7. LGBT People in the Power EliteChapter 8. The Ironies of Diversity