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.

People of Color in the United States: Contemporary Issues in Education, Work, Communities, Health, and Immigration examines a wide range of issues that affect people of color in America today, covering education, employment, health, and immigration. Edited by experts in the field, this set supplies current information that meets a variety of course standards in four volumes. Volume 1 covers education grades K-12 and higher education; volume 2 addresses employment, housing, family, and community; volume 3 examines health and wellness; and volume 4 covers immigration.

The content will enable students to better understand the experiences of racial and ethnic minorities as well as current social issues and policy. The content is written to be accessible to a wide range of readers and to provide ready-reference content for courses in history, sociology, psychology, geography, and economics, as well as curricula that address immigration, urbanization and industrialization, and contemporary American society.

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

Pamela Braboy Jackson, PhD, is 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 at the University of Pittsburgh. She also serves as 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 the Journal of Race and Policy.