Diversity and Society- Vantage Learning Platform

Race, Ethnicity, and Gender

FAVORITE Sage VANTAGE FEATURES

• Enables Easy, 3-Step Course Creation. Our simple interface enables you to create your course in minutes so you can focus on content. Just enter your course information, select your assignments and grading preferences, and review your settings.  
• Drives Student Engagement. An evidence-based learning design integrates text content with frequent multimedia activities and learning assessments to facilitate better student preparation, engagement, and learning retention.  
  • A student dashboard offers easy access to text content and visually tracks progress on assignments and assessments.  
    Study tools, including flashcards and note-taking, highlighting, and definition look-up capabilities, give students all they need for class preparation and course success. 
  • Assignable Knowledge Checks (with helpful hints) provide formative assessments after each major section of text content to reinforce retention of key concepts. 
  • Critical Thinking Checks and Chapter Quizzes provide summative assessments at the end of each chapter to measure progress and long-term retention.   
  • Assignable multimedia activities with assessment—including video—build critical thinking and data literacy  while consistently engaging students in an interactive application of text content. Focused feedback on correct and incorrect answers eliminates any guesswork in the learning journey. 
• Ensures Student Accountability. Auto-graded assignments feed your gradebook while instructor reports complement your ability to track student activity, assignment completion, and learning objective mastery. These real-time analytics provide quick insights into individual and class performance for tailoring course instruction to help you address the needs of struggling students.  
• Delivers First-day-of-class Access and Flexibility. With our 2-week grace period access, all students can use Vantage on the very first day of class. The flexibility to use Vantage on mobile, desktop, or tablet devices means your dynamic Vantage content will consistently be available to learners any time they need it.   
• Offers Best-in-class Technical Support and Training. Our personalized support for instructors, students, and LMS administrators facilitates an easy transition to Vantage and the quality service you’ve come to expect from Sage.   
  • Customizable Learning Management System (LMS) Integration. Our approach to integration empowers you to drive students to the content you want them to see in your LMS immediately following Single Sign On (SSO). In addition, automatic grade sync and full gradebook integration options can bolster timesaving, streamlined access to all your course content.  
  • Dedicated Technical Support. We are proud to offer robust technical assistance from our team of Sage educational technology experts based in New York. Instructors and students can access extended weekday and weekend support via phone, email, and online communication. 
  • Live and Self-Service Training. Synchronous training sessions are available to every Vantage adopter and complement our full suite of self-service “how-to” tools. Guided walk-throughs of basic and advanced Vantage features and live Q & A discussions empower you to personalize your course design and determine how Vantage can best support your teaching goals. 

• The new edition is available as a digital option through Sage Vantage, an intuitive digital platform that offers auto-graded assignments and interactive multimedia tools—including video—all designed to enable students to better prepare for class.
• Research findings and data have been thoroughly updated, with information from hundreds of new sources used and new or updated figures and tables in every chapter.
• The text offers an increased intersectional emphasis; for example, Chapter 3 addresses the experiences of enslaved women that result from interlocking systems of racial and gender oppression and Chapter 7 features gay Latino men.
• An increased emphasis on immigration is particularly featured in the opening chapter as well as the chapters on Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, and new Americans from Latin America and the Middle East and Arab world.
• The chapter on African Americans contains new material on “Living While Black,” police violence, the Alt-Right, and controversies over Confederate Symbols.
• In Ch. 7, a new section clarifies the discussion about the racial and ethnic identities of Hispanic Americans and the power dynamics behind different names for this group.
• Ch. 8 discusses recent increases in hate crimes against Asian Americans.
• Ch. 9 on recent immigration has a new section on birthright citizenship.

• Tells an overarching story about dominant-minority relations in the U.S. and how minority groups are inseparable from the larger American experience.
• In addition, intersectional perspectives throughout examine how race/ethnicity combine with other statuses to produce different forms of privilege and oppression.
• Examines a diversity of experiences both across minority groups, as well as within them.
• Opening vignettes convey the thoughts and experiences of immigrants, writers and artists, politicians, scholars, racists, oppressed people, and other Americans who have witnessed intergroup relations from different perspectives.
• Comparative Focus boxes look at group relations in societies outside the United States.
• Applying Concepts activities provide an opportunity to use key ideas in new ways.