Download or read book Diversity in the Power Elite written by Richard L. Zweigenhaft and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2006-04-07 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks systematically at the extent to which Jews, women, African Americans, Latinos, Asians and gay men and lesbians have entered the higher circles of power that constituted what sociologist C. Wright Mills called 'the power elite.' It examines why and how the power elite has diversified, the pathways taken by those who have entered the power elite, and the effect this diversification has had on the way power works in the United States.