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Understanding Race and Ethnic Relations

ISBN: 9780205349661 | 0205349668
Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Pub. Date: 1/1/2002

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SummaryTable of Contents
A brief, economical introduction to the core theories, concepts, and issues for students studying race and ethnic relations in the United States.
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The Study of Minorities
1(26)
The Stranger as a Social Phenomenon
2(5)
Similarity and Attraction
2(1)
Social Distance
3(3)
Perceptions
6(1)
Interactions
6(1)
A Sociological Perspective
7(3)
Functional Theory
8(1)
Conflict Theory
9(1)
Interactionist Theory
9(1)
Minority Groups
10(3)
Development of a Definition
11(1)
Minority-Group Characteristics
12(1)
Racial and Ethnic Groups
13(1)
Ethnocentrism
14(6)
In the United States
16(1)
In Other Times and Lands
16(3)
Eurocentrism and Afrocentrism
19(1)
Objectivity
20(2)
The Dillingham Flaw
22(1)
Personal Troubles and Public Issues
23(1)
The Dynamics of Intergroup Relations
24(1)
Retrospect
25(1)
Key Terms
25(1)
Review Questions
26(1)
Suggested Readings
26(1)
Culture and Social Structure
27(38)
The Concept of Culture
27(6)
The Reality Construct
29(4)
Cultural Change
33(5)
Cultural Diffusion
33(2)
Subcultures
35(3)
Structural Conditions
38(2)
Stratification
40(1)
Social Class
40(8)
Class Consciousness
41(1)
Ethnicity and Social Class
42(1)
Blaming the Poor or Society?
43(5)
Intergroup Conflict
48(5)
Cultural Differentiation
49(1)
Structural Differentiation
50(3)
Theories of Minority Integration
53(8)
Assimilation (Majority-Conformity) Theory
53(2)
Amalgamation (Melting Pot) Theory
55(4)
Accommodation (Pluralistic) Theory
59(2)
Is There a White Culture?
61(1)
Retrospect
62(1)
Key Terms
63(1)
Review Questions
64(1)
Suggested Readings
64(1)
Prejudice and Discrimination
65(34)
Prejudice
65(21)
The Psychology of Prejudice
66(6)
The Sociology of Prejudice
72(4)
Stereotyping
76(4)
Television's Influence
80(3)
Can Prejudice Be Reduced?
83(3)
Discrimination
86(10)
Levels of Discrimination
87(1)
Relationships Between Prejudice and Discrimination
87(2)
Other Aspects of Discrimination
89(1)
The Affirmative Action Controversy
90(6)
Retrospect
96(1)
Key Terms
96(1)
Review Questions
97(1)
Suggested Readings
97(2)
Dominant-Minority Relations
99(29)
Minority-Group Responses
99(6)
Avoidance
99(1)
Deviance
100(2)
Defiance
102(2)
Acceptance
104(1)
Consequences of Minority-Group Status
105(5)
Negative Self-Image
105(1)
The Vicious Circle
106(1)
Marginality
107(1)
Middleman Minorities
108(2)
Dominant-Group Responses
110(8)
Legislative Controls
110(1)
Segregation
111(1)
Expulsion
112(1)
Xenophobia
113(1)
Annihilation
113(3)
Hate Groups and Hate Crimes
116(2)
Exploitation
118(6)
The Power-Differential Theory
119(2)
The Internal-Colonialism Theory
121(1)
The Split-Labor-Market Theory
122(2)
Limitations of These Theories
124(1)
Retrospect
124(2)
Key Terms
126(1)
Review Questions
126(1)
Suggested Readings
126(2)
The Ever-Changing U.S. Mosaic
128(33)
Ethnic Consciousness
129(3)
Country of Origin as a Factor
129(1)
The Three-Generation Hypothesis
130(2)
The Changing Face of Ethnicity
132(7)
The White Ethnic Revival
133(1)
Ethnicity as a Social Process
134(4)
Symbolic Ethnicity
138(1)
Current Ethnic Issues
139(15)
Immigration Fears
139(4)
Undocumented Aliens
143(2)
Bilingual Education
145(3)
The English-Only Movement
148(2)
Multiculturalism
150(2)
Political Correctness
152(2)
Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Future
154(4)
Indicators of Ethnoreligious Change
156(2)
Beyond Tomorrow
158(1)
Key Terms
158(1)
Review Questions
159(1)
Suggested Readings
159(2)
Notes161(16)
Appendix177

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