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Race and Ethnicity in the United States

ISBN: 9780673469496 | 0673469492
Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Publisher: HarperCollins College
Pub. Date: 9/1/1995

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Table of Contents
Prefacexi
Chapter 1 Aspects of Minority-Majority Relations
1(32)
WHAT IS A MINORITY GROUP?
4(3)
... MORE
TYPES OF MINORITY GROUPS
7(2)
RACE
9(3)
SOCIOLOGY AND THE STUDY OF MINORITY GROUPS
12(5)
THE CREATION OF SUBORDINATE-GROUP STATUS
17(3)
THE CONSEQUENCES OF SUBORDINATE-GROUP STATUS
20(7)
THE PLURALIST PERSPECTIVE
27(3)
CONCLUSION
30(1)
KEY TERMS
31(1)
CRITICAL THINKING QUESTIONS
32(1)
Chapter 2 Prejudice
33(26)
PREJUDICE AND DISCRIMINATION
35(3)
THEORIES OF PREJUDICE
38(3)
THE CONTENT OF PREJUDICE: STEREOTYPES
41(3)
THE EXTENT OF PREJUDICE
44(4)
MOOD OF THE SUBORDINATE GROUP
48(4)
REDUCING PREJUDICE
52(4)
CONCLUSION
56(1)
KEY TERMS
57(1)
CRITICAL THINKING QUESTIONS
57(2)
Chapter 3 Discrimination
59(24)
UNDERSTANDING DISCRIMINATION
60(3)
INSTITUTIONAL DISCRIMINATION
63(2)
DUAL LABOR MARKET
65(1)
THE UNDERCLASS
66(1)
DISCRIMINATION IN AMERICAN SOCIETY
67(9)
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
76(5)
CONCLUSION
81(1)
KEY TERMS
82(1)
CRITICAL THINKING QUESTIONS
82(1)
Chapter 4 Immigration and the United States
83(22)
EARLY IMMIGRATION
85(5)
RESTRICTIONIST SENTIMENT INCREASES
90(4)
CONTEMPORARY CONCERNS
94(3)
ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
97(3)
REFUGEES
100(3)
CONCLUSION
103(1)
KEY TERMS
104(1)
CRITICAL THINKING QUESTIONS
104(1)
Chapter 5 Ethnicity and Religion
105(28)
ETHNIC DIVERSITY
106(1)
RELIGIOUS PLURALISM
107(3)
THE REDISCOVERY OF ETHNICITY
110(3)
JEWS AS AN ETHNIC GROUP
113(2)
THE PRICE PAID BY WHITE ETHNICS
115(5)
ETHNICITY, RELIGION, AND SOCIAL CLASS
120(1)
RELIGION AND AMERICAN SOCIETY
121(10)
CONCLUSION
131(1)
KEY TERMS
131(1)
CRITICAL THINKING QUESTIONS
132(1)
Chapter 6 The Nation as a Kaleidoscope
133(16)
THE GLASS HALF EMPTY
135(2)
IS THERE A MODEL MINORITY?
137(2)
THE GLASS CEILING
139(1)
TALKING PAST ONE ANOTHER
140(7)
CONCLUSION
147(1)
KEY TERMS
148(1)
CRITICAL THINKING QUESTIONS
148(1)
References149(24)
Acknowledgments173(2)
Name Index175(4)
Subject Index179

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