
Race and Ethnicity in the United States
by Schaefer, Richard T.Buy Used
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Table of Contents
Preface | p. ix |
Understanding Race and Ethnicity | p. 1 |
What Is a Subordinate Group? | p. 4 |
Types of Subordinate Groups | p. 5 |
Racial Groups | p. 5 |
Ethnic Groups | p. 6 |
Religious Groups | p. 7 |
Gender Groups | p. 8 |
Listen to Their Voices: Problem of the Color-Line, W. E. B. DuBois | p. 8 |
Race | p. 9 |
Biological Meaning | p. 9 |
Social Construction of Race | p. 12 |
Census 2000 | p. 14 |
Sociology and the Study of Race and Ethnicity | p. 14 |
Stratification by Class and Gender | p. 15 |
Theoretical Perspectives | p. 16 |
The Creation of Subordinate-Group Status | p. 20 |
Migration | p. 21 |
Annexation | p. 21 |
Colonialism | p. 22 |
The Consequences of Subordinate-Group Status | p. 23 |
Extermination | p. 24 |
Expulsion | p. 24 |
Secession | p. 25 |
Segregation | p. 25 |
Fusion | p. 26 |
Assimilation | p. 27 |
The Pluralist Perspective | p. 29 |
Who Am I? | p. 30 |
Resistance and Change | p. 33 |
Conclusion | p. 35 |
Key Terms | p. 36 |
Review Questions | p. 36 |
Critical Thinking | p. 37 |
Internet Exercises | p. 37 |
Prejudice | p. 39 |
Hate Crimes | p. 42 |
Prejudice and Discrimination | p. 44 |
Theories of Prejudice | p. 47 |
Scapegoating Theory | p. 47 |
Authoritarian Personality Theory | p. 48 |
Exploitation Theory | p. 49 |
Normative Approach | p. 50 |
The Content of Prejudice: Stereotypes | p. 51 |
The Extent of Prejudice | p. 54 |
The Social Distance Scale | p. 54 |
Attitude Change | p. 57 |
The Mood of the Subordinate Group | p. 58 |
Listen to Their Voices: In Search of Bruce Lee's Grave, Shanlon Wu | p. 61 |
Intergroup Hostility | p. 63 |
Reducing Prejudice | p. 64 |
Mass Media and Education | p. 64 |
Television: A Case Study of the Media | p. 66 |
Equal-Status Contact | p. 68 |
Conclusion | p. 70 |
Key Terms | p. 71 |
Review Questions | p. 71 |
Critical Thinking | p. 71 |
Internet Exercises | p. 71 |
Discrimination | p. 73 |
Understanding Discrimination | p. 76 |
Relative Versus Absolute Deprivation | p. 76 |
Total Discrimination | p. 77 |
Institutional Discrimination | p. 78 |
Listen to Their Voices: Of Race and Risk, Patricia J. Williams | p. 79 |
The Informal Economy | p. 81 |
The Underclass | p. 83 |
Discrimination Today | p. 85 |
Measuring Discrimination | p. 85 |
Eliminating Discrimination | p. 88 |
Environmental Justice | p. 91 |
Affirmative Action | p. 93 |
Affirmative Action Explained | p. 94 |
The Debate | p. 95 |
Reverse Discrimination | p. 98 |
The Glass Ceiling | p. 100 |
Conclusion | p. 104 |
Key Terms | p. 105 |
Review Questions | p. 105 |
Critical Thinking | p. 105 |
Internet Exercises | p. 106 |
Immigration and the United States | p. 108 |
Early Immigration | p. 111 |
The Anti-Catholic Crusade | p. 112 |
The Anti-Chinese Movement | p. 113 |
Restrictionist Sentiment Increases | p. 117 |
The National Origins System | p. 117 |
Listen to Their Voices: Roots, Raffi Ishkanian | p. 119 |
The 1965 Immigration and Naturalization Act | p. 120 |
Contemporary Concerns | p. 122 |
The Brain Drain | p. 122 |
Population Growth | p. 124 |
Illegal Immigration | p. 125 |
The Economic Impact of Immigration | p. 128 |
Refugees | p. 131 |
Conclusion | p. 133 |
Key Terms | p. 134 |
Review Questions | p. 134 |
Critical Thinking | p. 135 |
Internet Exercises | p. 135 |
Ethnicity and Religion | p. 137 |
Ethnic Diversity | p. 139 |
Why Don't We Study Whiteness? | p. 139 |
Listen to Their Voices: When the Boats Arrived, Diane Glancy | p. 141 |
Religious Pluralism | p. 143 |
The Rediscovery of Ethnicity | p. 146 |
The Third-Generation Principle | p. 147 |
Symbolic Ethnicity | p. 148 |
The Price Paid by White Ethnics | p. 150 |
Prejudice toward White Ethnic Groups | p. 150 |
The Prejudice of Ethnics | p. 151 |
Case Example: The Italian Americans | p. 153 |
Ethnicity, Religion, and Social Class | p. 156 |
Religion in the United States | p. 158 |
Diversity among Roman Catholics | p. 159 |
Diversity among Protestants | p. 160 |
Women and Religion | p. 162 |
Religion and the U.S. Supreme Court | p. 163 |
Limits of Religious Freedom: The Amish | p. 167 |
Conclusion | p. 171 |
Key Terms | p. 172 |
Review Questions | p. 172 |
Critical Thinking | p. 172 |
Internet Exercises | p. 173 |
The Nation as a Kaleidoscope | p. 175 |
The Glass Half Empty | p. 177 |
Is There a Model Minority? | p. 179 |
Talking Past One Another | p. 182 |
Listen to Their Voices: A Bench by the Side of the Road, Toni Morrison | p. 184 |
The Changing Face of the Workforce | p. 185 |
Conclusion | p. 186 |
Key Term | p. 186 |
Review Questions | p. 186 |
Critical Thinking | p. 187 |
Internet Exercise | p. 187 |
Glossary | p. 188 |
References | p. 191 |
Photo Credits | p. 203 |
Index | p. 205 |
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