The Blackwell Companion to Social Inequalities is a first-rate collection of social science scholarship on inequalities, emphasizing race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, age, and nationality.

• Highlights themes that represent the scope and range of theoretical orientations, contemporary emphases, and emerging topics in the field of social inequalities.
• Gives special attention to debates in the field, developing trends and directions, and interdisciplinary influences in the study of social inequalities.
• Includes an editorial introduction and suggestions for further reading.

Mary Romero is Professor at Arizona State University and the 2004 recipient of the Lee Founders Award given by the Society for the Study of Social Problems. She is currently co-chair elect of LatCrit Inc. She is the author of Maid in the USA (1992) and her coedited books include Challenging Fronteras (1997), Women’s Untold Stories (1999), and Latina and Latino Popular Culture (2002).

Eric Margolis is Associate Professor in the Division of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Arizona State University. His recent publications include: AIDS Research/AIDS Policy: Competing Paradigms of Science and Public Policy, Researchin Social Policy, Volume 6 (1998), and The Hidden Curriculum in Higher Education (2001).