Includes bibliographical references and index.

PART 1. An Introduction to the Study of Minority Groups in the United States -- What Is Public Sociology? -- Public Sociology Assignments / Marcus Griffin -- Assignment 1. Revealing Diversity in the United States in Your Local School -- Assignment 2. Diversity in a Soup Kitchen -- Assignment 3. Local Hate Groups -- Assignment 4. Cultural Brokerage and Arab Americans -- 1. Diversity in the United States: Questions and Concepts -- Six American Stories -- The Increasing Variety of American Minority Groups -- What Is a Minority Group? -- The Pattern of Inequality -- Theoretical Perspectives -- Minority Group Status and Stratification -- Visible Distinguishing Traits -- Race -- Gender -- Narrative Portrait 1. Racial Identity and the Sociological Imagination -- White Like Me Black Me / Deirdre Royster -- Photo Essay 1. The Blending of America: Mixed Race -- Key Concepts in Dominant-Minority Relations -- Prejudice -- Discrimination -- Ideological Racism -- Institutional Discrimination -- Applying Concepts -- Intersecting Inequalities, Racism, and Hurricane Katrina -- A Global Perspective -- Current Debates: Race and Sports -- The Dominance of Black Athletes Is Genetic / Jon Entine -- The Argument for Genetic Differences Is Deeply Flawed / Kenan Malik -- Debate Questions to Consider -- Main Points -- Study Site on the Web -- For Further Reading -- Questions for Review and Study -- Internet Research Project -- 2. Assimilation and Pluralism: From Immigrants to White Ethnics -- Assimilation -- Types of Assimilation -- The "Traditional" Perspective on Assimilation: Theories and Concepts -- Pluralism -- Types of Pluralism -- Other Group Relatioaships -- From Immigrants to White Ethnics -- Industrialization and Immigration -- European Origins and Conditions of Entry -- Chains of Immigration -- The Campaign Against Immigration: Prejudice, Racism, and Discrimination -- Patterns of Assimilation -- The Importance of Generations -- Ethnic Succession -- Narrative Portrait 1. Ethnicity, Prejudice, and the Irish Political Machine -- Shadow of the Past / David Gray -- Continuing Industrialization and Structural Mobility -- Variations in Assimilation -- Degree of Similarity -- Religion -- Social Class -- Gender -- Sojourners -- The Descendants of the Immigrants Today -- Geogmpbical Distribution -- Integration and Equality -- The Twilight of White Ethnicity? -- While Ethnicity in the 21st Century -- Contemporary Immigrants: Does the Traditional Perspective Apply? -- Implications for Examining Dominant-Minority Relations -- Narrative Portrait 2. Assimilation, Then and Now -- Choosing a Dream: Italians in Hell's Kitchen / Mario Puzo -- Always Running: La Vida Loca / Luis Rodriguez -- Comparative Focus: Immigration, Emigration, and Ireland -- Current Debates: English Only? -- English Only Will Speed the Assimilation of Immigrants / Mauro Mujica -- The English-Only Movement Is Racist / Andrew Hartman -- Debate Questions to Consider -- Main Points -- Study Site on the Web -- For Further Reading -- Questions for Review and Study -- Internet Research Project -- 3. Prejudice and Discrimination -- Prejudice -- The Affective Dimension -- The Cognitive Dimension: Stereotypes -- Cognitive and Affective Dimensions of Stereotypes -- Intersections of Race, Gender, and Class -- What Causes Prejudice? -- The Role of Group Competition -- How andWhy Does Prejudice Persist Through Time? -- The Vicious Cycle -- Prejudice in Children -- Social Distance Scales: The Cultural Dimensions of Prejudice -- Situational Influences -- Summary and Limitations -- Narrative Portrait 1. The Cultural Sources of Prejudice -- The Crazy Ladies of Pearl Street / Trevanian -- Recent Trends in Prejudice -- Traditional Prejudice: Changing Attitudes, Rising Education, and Increasing Contact -- Comparative Focus: The Contact Hypothesis and European Prejudice -- Modern Racism -- Has Sexism Modernized? -- Hate Crimes -- Narrative Portrait 2. The Dynamics of Racial Hatred -- The Making (and Unmaking) of a Klansman / C.P. Ellis -- The Sociology of Prejudice -- Current Debates: Racial Profiling and Prejudice -- Racial Profiling Is Motivated by Prejudice and Reinforced by Reality Cop Shows on Television -- Theodore Prosise and Ann Johnson -- Racial Profiling Is Rational and Justified by Differential Crime Rates / Glade Whitney -- Debate Questions to Consider -- Main Points -- Study Site on the Web -- For Further Reading -- Questions for Review and Study -- Internet Research Project -- PART 2. The Evolution of Dominant- Minority Relations in the United States -- A Note on the Morality and the History of Minority Relations in America: Guilt, Blame, Understanding, and Communication -- About the Public Sociology Assignments -- Public Sociology Assignments -- Marcus Griffin -- Assignment 1. Employment and Achieving the American Dream -- Assignment 2. Finnic Self-Segregation in College -- 4. The Development of Dominant-Minority Group Relations in Preindustrial America: The Origins of Slavery -- The Origins of Slavery in America -- The Labor Supply Problem -- The Contact Situation -- The Creation of Slavery in the United Stales -- Paternalistic Relations -- The Dimensions of Minority Group Status -- Narrative Portrait 1. A Slave's Life -- Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb / Henry Bibb -- Life as a Slave Girl / Harriet Jacobs -- The Creation of Minority Status for American indians and Mexican Americans -- American Indians -- Comparative Focus: Hawaii -- Mexican Americans -- Comparing Minority Groups -- Comparative Focus: Mexico, Canada, and the United States -- Current Debates: How Did Slavery Affect the Origins of African American Culture? -- Slavery Created African American Culture / Stanley Elkins -- African American Culture Was Created by an interplay of Elements From Africa andAmerica / William D. Piersen -- The Experiences of Female Slaves Have Been Under-researched and Under-reported / Deborah Gray White -- Debate Questions to Consider -- Main Points -- Study Site on the Web -- For Further Reading -- Questions for Review and Study -- Internet Research Project -- 5. Industrialization and Dominant-Minority Relations: From Slavery to Segregation and the Coming of Postindustrial Society -- Industrialization and the Shift From Paternalistic to Rigid Competitive Group Relations -- The Impact of Industrialization on African Americans: From Slavery to Segregation -- Reconstruction -- DeJure Segregation -- The "Great Migration" -- Life in the North -- Competition With White Ethnic Groups -- Narrative Portrait 1. The Kitchenette -- Death on the City Pavement / Richard Wright -- The Origins of Black Protest -- Applying Concepts -- Acculturation and Integration -- Gender and Race -- Industrialization, the Shift to Postindustrial Society, andDominant-Minority Group Relations: General Trends -- Urbanization -- Comparative Focus: South African Apartheid -- Occupational Specialization -- Bureaucracy and Rationality -- Growth of White-Collar Jobs and the Serrice Sector -- The Growing Importance of Education -- A Dual Labor Market -- Globalization -- The Shift From Rigid to Fluid Competitive Relationships -- Gender Inequality in a Globalizing, Postindustrial World -- Modern Institutional Discrimination -- Social Change and Minority Group Activism -- Current Debates: Reparations -- Reparations for African Americans in Historical Context / Eileen O'Brien -- Reparations Are an Idea Whose Time Has Come / Manning Marable -- Why I Don't Want Reparations for Slavery-John McWhorter -- Debate Questions to Consider -- Main Points -- Study Site on the Web -- For Further Reading -- Questions for Review and Study -- Internet Research Project.

PART 3. Understanding Dominant-Minority Relations in the United States Today -- About the Public Sociology Assignments -- Public Sociology Assignments / Marcus Griffin -- Assignment 1. American Indian Cultural Affiliation -- Assignment 2. Race and Class / Surveillance -- 6. African Americans: From Segregation to Modern Institutional Discrimination and Modern Racism -- The End of de Jure Segregation -- Wartime Developments -- The Civil Rights Movement -- Developments Outside the South -- De Facto Segregation -- Urban Unrest -- The Black Power Movement -- Protest, Power, and Pluralism -- The Black Power Movement in Perspective -- Gender and Black Protest -- Narrative Portrait 1. Growing Up Black and Female in the Jim Crow South -- Bone Black / Bell Hooks -- Comparative Focus: Race in Another America -- Black-White Relations Since the 1960s -- Continuing Separation, Continuing Violence -- The Criminal Justice System and African Americans -- Increasing Class Inequality -- The Family Institution and the Culture of Poverty -- Prejudice and Discrimination -- Assimilation and Pluralism -- Is the Glass Half Empty or Half Full? -- Current Debates: Should the United States Be Colorblind? -- Creating Equal: The Importance of Being Colorblind -- Ward Connerly Interview -- Colorblindness Will Perpetuate Racial Inequality / Ian F. Haney Lopez -- Debate Questions to Consider -- Main Points -- Study Site on the Web -- For Further Reading -- Questions for Review and Study -- Internet Research Project -- 7. American Indians: From Conquest to Tribal Survival in a Postindustrial Society -- Size of the Group -- American Indian Cultures -- Relations With the Federal Government After the 1890s -- Reservation Life -- Narrative Portrait 1. Civilize Them With a Stick -- Lakota Woman / Mary Crow Dog -- The Indian Reorganization Act -- Termination and Relocation -- Self Determination -- Protest and Resistance -- Early Efforts -- Red Power -- The Continuing Struggle for Development in Contemporary American Indian-White Relations -- Natural Resources -- Attracting Industry to the Reservation -- Broken Treaties -- Gaming and Other Development Possibilities -- Contemporary American Indian-White Relations -- Prejudice and Discrimination -- Assimilation and Pluralism -- Narrative Portrait 2. An Indian View of White Civilization -- Listening to the Air / John Lame Deer -- Comparing Minority Groups -- Progress and Challenges -- Comparative Focus: Australian Aborigines and American Indians -- Current Debates: Are Indian Sports Team Mascots Offensive? -- Indian Symbols and Mascots Are Not Offensive / Andrea Woo -- Mascots Are Offensive / Cornel Pewewardy -- Debate Questions to Consider -- Main Points -- Study Site on the Web -- For Further Reading -- Questions for Review and Study -- Internet Research Project -- 8. Hispanic Americans: Colonization, Immigration, and Ethnic Enclaves -- Mexican Americans -- Cultural Patterns -- Immigration -- Narrative Portrait 1. The Meaning of Macho -- Americanization Is Tough on "Macho" / Rose Del Castillo Guilbault -- Conditions in Mexico, Fluctuating Demand for Labor, and Federal Immigration Policy -- Developments in the United States -- Mexican Americans and Other Minority Groups -- Puerto Ricans -- Migration (Push and Pull) and Employment -- Transitions -- Puer to Ricans and Other Minority Groups -- Cuban Americans -- Narrative Portrait 2. Gender Images of Latinas -- The Island Travels With You / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Immigration (Push andPull) -- Regional Concentrations -- Socioeconomic Characteristics -- The Ethnic Enclave -- Cuban Americans and Other Minority Groups -- New Hispanic Groups: Immigrants From the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, and Colombia -- Three Case Studies -- Contemporary Hispanic-White Relations -- Prejudice and Discrimination -- Comparative Focus: Immigration in Europe Versus Immigration to the United States -- Assimilation and Pluralism -- Assimilation and Hispanic Americans -- Current Debates: Is the United States Threatened by "Hispanization"? -- How to Make an American / John Fonte -- Why We Shouldn't Worry About the "Hispanization" of the United States-Francis Fukuyama -- Debate Questions to Consider -- Main Points -- Study Site on the Web -- For Further Reading -- Questions for Review and Study -- Internet Research Project -- 9. Asian Americans: "Model Minorities"? -- Origins and Cultures -- Contact Situations and the Development of the Chinese American and Japanese American Communities -- Chinese Americans -- Japanese Americans -- Photo Essay 1. Prejudice and Discrimination Against Japanese Americans -- Narrative Portrait 1. The Relocation -- We Were Just Japs / Joseph Kurihara -- Comparing Minority Groups -- Contemporary Immigration From Asia -- Four Case Studies -- Contemporary Relations -- Prejudice and Discrimination -- Assimilation and Pluralism -- Comparing Minority Groups: Explaining Asian American Success -- Asian Americans andWhite Ethnics Ail -- Asian Americans andColonized Racial Minority Groups -- Current Debates: Asian American "Success": What Are the Dimensions, Causes, andImplications for Other Minority Groups? -- The Success of Japanese Americans Is Cultural / Harry Kitano -- The "Success" of Chinese Americans Is Structural / Min Zhou -- The Success of Asian Americans Has Been Exaggerated, in Part, to Criticize Other Minority Groups / Ronald Takaki -- Debate Questions to Consider -- Comparative Focus: Japan's "invisible" Minority -- Main Points -- Study Site on the Web -- For Further Reading -- Questions for Review and Study -- Internet Research Project -- PART 4. Challenges for the Present and the Future -- About the Public Sociology Assignments -- Public Sociology Assignments / Marcus Griffin -- Assignment 1. Social Justice andDisaster Preparedness Planning -- Assignment 2. Global Genocide Awareness and Education -- 10. New Americans, Assimilation, and Old Challenges -- Current Immigration -- Recent Non-Hispanic Immigration From the Caribbean -- Middle Eastern andArab Americans -- Photo Essay 1. The Arab American Community in Detroit, Michigan / Steve Gold -- Narrative Portrait 1. 9/11 andMiddle Eastern Americans -- Middle Eastern Americans andthe American Dream / Karyn McKinney -- Immigrants From Africa -- Summary: Modes qflncor/xrration -- Immigration: Issues andControversies -- How Welcoming Aw Americans? -- Views of the Immigrants -- Costs andBenefits -- Illegal Immigration -- Is Contemporary Assimilation Segmented? -- The Case forSegmentedAssimilation -- The Case Against Segmented Assimilation -- Recent Immigration in Historical Context -- New Immigrants andOld Issues -- CURRENT DEBATES: Is Immigration Harmful or Helpful to the United States? -- Immigration Is Hurting the U.S. Worker / Steven A. Camarota -- Immigration Is Essential / Anna Quindlen -- Debate Questions to Consider -- Main Points -- Study Site on the Web -- For Further Reading -- Questions for Review andStudy -- Internet Research Project -- 11. Minority Groups and U.S. Society: Themes, Patterns, and the Future -- Six Americans Revisited -- The Importance of Subsistence Technology -- The Importance of the Contact Situation, Group Competition, andPower -- Diversity Within Minority Groups -- Assimilation andPluralism -- Minority Group Progress andthe Ideology of American individualism -- A Final Word -- Appendix B. The Obama Presidency: Can Barack Obama Deliver the Change He Promises? -- Appendix C. Women's Rights: Are Violence andDiscrimination Against Women Declining? -- Appendix D. American indians: Are They Making Meaningful Progress at Last?