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    About the Book

    This open text was compiled by seven diverse, community college sociology faculty from Long Beach City College, Cerritos College, and Rancho Santiago College. With an eye on social justice and intersectionality, the text provides a sociological analysis of the history, demographics, and contemporary experiences of the following race-ethnic groups: African Americans, Asian American Pacific Islanders, Euro Americans, Latinx, Native Americans, Middle Eastern Americans. This text is suitable for a sociology course on race and ethnic relations or a social justice studies introductory course.

    About the Authors/Contributors

    Erika Gutierrez, Author/Contributor

    Erika is a tenured sociology/ethnic studies professor at Santiago Canyon College, and she occasionally teaches part time at Long Beach City College.

    Dr. Janét Hund, Author/Contributor

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    Dr. Janét Hund is a tenured full-time professor in Sociology at Long Beach City College; she currently serves at the Social Sciences Department Chair. She began her full-time tenure at Long Beach City College in 1997. Janét recently earned her EdD in Community College Leadership from National American University. She earned her M.A. in Sociology at Arizona State University and her B.A. in Sociology/Minority Studies at Wichita State University. After incorporating OER texts for years in her Introduction to Sociology and Modern Social Problems courses, she desired to adopt OER material for her Race & Ethnic Relations in the U.S. course. She is appreciative of a former student trustee who called her attention to the OER movement nearly a decade ago. She is committed to her personal and professional growth to better serve our diverse student body. Her children, Jonas and Jakobi Oware, created images, charts and tables found throughout this book.

    Shaheen Johnson, Author/Contributor

    Shaheen Johnson is a tenure-track full-time professor in Sociology at Long Beach City College. She received her M.A. and B.A. in Sociology from California State University, Dominguez Hills. She is passionate when it comes to serving low-income, first-generation college students. Through her personal experience as a low-income, first-generation college student, she is able to empathize with students and relate to many of their struggles. By offering OER material in her courses, it’s one barrier that she is happy to remove in an effort to ease the financial burden many students carry.

    Carlos Ramos, Author/Contributor

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    Carlos Ramos is a tenured full-time professor of Sociology at Long Beach City College who began teaching sociology at the college level in 2001. Carlos earned a B.A. in Sociology/Psychology from the University of Southern California (USC) and an M.A. in Sociology from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He recently completed the OER transition of his Introduction to Sociology and Modern Social Problems courses, and they are now zero-cost textbook courses, without having to sacrifice academic rigor. He recently worked closely with Long Beach City College colleagues to create a zero-cost textbook and course materials for the course, Race and Ethnic Relations in the United States, and plans to create and adopt OER materials the course, Sociology of Latinos, in Summer 2021.

    Lisette Rodriguez, Author/Contributor

    Currently a tenure-track full-time Sociology faculty member at Long Beach City College, Lisette Rodriguez received her M.A. in Sociology from California State University Northridge and a B.A. in Sociology with a minor in Latin American Studies from the University of California Santa Barbara. She has 17 years of experience working with college students both inside and outside of the classroom. In addition to her work as a sociology faculty, she has also developed and managed student access, equity, diversity, service learning and international education programs. Lisette is an avid world traveler and has coordinated study abroad and international service learning programs for students in seven countries throughout Latin America and Europe. Through her work, she hopes to empower and motivate students to be passionate about sociology and inspired to impact, question and change the world around them.

    Joy Tsuhako, Author/Contributor

    Joy Tsuhako is a tenure-track faculty member in the Department of Sociology at Cerritos College, which was the first school she attended before transferring to Cal State Long Beach to earn a Bachelor's in Sociology with an emphasis on global issues and social change. She completed her Master's at Cal State Fullerton and wrote a thesis titled, "Lived Experiences of Young, Urban, Fundamentalist Latinas: Understandings and Negotiations of Cultural and Faith-Based Values." She teaches Introduction to Sociology, Social Problems, Race and Ethnic Relations in the U.S., and Cultural Diversity in addition to advising the Sociology and Environmental clubs at Cerritos College.

    David Goto, Contributor

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    David Goto is the tenured full-time Pacific Coast Campus and Reference Librarian at Long Beach City College. He earned his Associates Degree from Fullerton College, B.A. in American History and M.A. in American and European History from CSU Fullerton. His M.L.I.S. was earned at San Jose State University with an emphasis in academic and special libraries. Before working as an adjunct librarian at Long Beach City College, he was an adjunct at Fullerton College, Cypress College, Chapman University, and Orange Coast College. His first attempt at OER was a series of guides he created at Cypress College and Fullerton College in 2006-2007. The first OER guide he created at LBCC was in 2015. With a passionate interest in our students and faculty, he is available at the LBCC Library reference desk on most days of the week.