Race, ethnicity, gender, and class : the sociology of group conflict and change /
Healey, Joseph F., 1945-
Race, ethnicity, gender, and class : the sociology of group conflict and change / Joseph F. Healey. - 5th ed., 2010/2011 update. - Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Pine Forge Press, �2011. - xxxix, 514, [169] pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 26 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
An Introduction to the Study of Minority Groups in the United States -- What Is Public Sociology? -- Public Sociology Assignments / Revealing Diversity in the United States in Your Local School -- Diversity in a Soup Kitchen -- Local Hate Groups -- Cultural Brokerage and Arab Americans -- 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 -- Racial Identity and the Sociological Imagination -- White Like Me Black Me / 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 / The Argument for Genetic Differences Is Deeply Flawed / Debate Questions to Consider -- Main Points -- Study Site on the Web -- For Further Reading -- Questions for Review and Study -- Internet Research Project -- 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 -- Ethnicity, Prejudice, and the Irish Political Machine -- Shadow of the Past / 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 -- Assimilation, Then and Now -- Choosing a Dream: Italians in Hell's Kitchen / Always Running: La Vida Loca / Comparative Focus: Immigration, Emigration, and Ireland -- Current Debates: English Only? -- English Only Will Speed the Assimilation of Immigrants / The English-Only Movement Is Racist / Debate Questions to Consider -- Main Points -- Study Site on the Web -- For Further Reading -- Questions for Review and Study -- Internet Research Project -- 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 -- The Cultural Sources of Prejudice -- The Crazy Ladies of Pearl Street / 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 -- The Dynamics of Racial Hatred -- The Making (and Unmaking) of a Klansman / 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 / Debate Questions to Consider -- Main Points -- Study Site on the Web -- For Further Reading -- Questions for Review and Study -- Internet Research Project -- 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 -- Employment and Achieving the American Dream -- Finnic Self-Segregation in College -- 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 -- A Slave's Life -- Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb / Life as a Slave Girl / 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 / African American Culture Was Created by an interplay of Elements From Africa andAmerica / The Experiences of Female Slaves Have Been Under-researched and Under-reported / Debate Questions to Consider -- Main Points -- Study Site on the Web -- For Further Reading -- Questions for Review and Study -- Internet Research Project -- 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 -- The Kitchenette -- Death on the City Pavement / 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 / Reparations Are an Idea Whose Time Has Come / 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. Marcus Griffin -- Deirdre Royster -- Jon Entine -- Kenan Malik -- David Gray -- Mario Puzo -- Luis Rodriguez -- Mauro Mujica -- Andrew Hartman -- Trevanian -- C.P. Ellis -- Glade Whitney -- Henry Bibb -- Harriet Jacobs -- Stanley Elkins -- William D. Piersen -- Deborah Gray White -- Richard Wright -- Eileen O'Brien -- Manning Marable -- PART 1. Assignment 1. Assignment 2. Assignment 3. Assignment 4. 1. Narrative Portrait 1. Photo Essay 1. 2. Narrative Portrait 1. Narrative Portrait 2. 3. Narrative Portrait 1. Narrative Portrait 2. PART 2. Assignment 1. Assignment 2. 4. Narrative Portrait 1. 5. Narrative Portrait 1. Understanding Dominant-Minority Relations in the United States Today -- About the Public Sociology Assignments -- Public Sociology Assignments / American Indian Cultural Affiliation -- Race and Class / 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 -- Growing Up Black and Female in the Jim Crow South -- Bone Black / 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 / Debate Questions to Consider -- Main Points -- Study Site on the Web -- For Further Reading -- Questions for Review and Study -- Internet Research Project -- 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 -- Civilize Them With a Stick -- Lakota Woman / 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 -- An Indian View of White Civilization -- Listening to the Air / 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 / Mascots Are Offensive / Debate Questions to Consider -- Main Points -- Study Site on the Web -- For Further Reading -- Questions for Review and Study -- Internet Research Project -- Hispanic Americans: Colonization, Immigration, and Ethnic Enclaves -- Mexican Americans -- Cultural Patterns -- Immigration -- The Meaning of Macho -- Americanization Is Tough on "Macho" / 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 -- Gender Images of Latinas -- The Island Travels With You / 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 / 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 -- Asian Americans: "Model Minorities"? -- Origins and Cultures -- Contact Situations and the Development of the Chinese American and Japanese American Communities -- Chinese Americans -- Japanese Americans -- Prejudice and Discrimination Against Japanese Americans -- The Relocation -- We Were Just Japs / 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 / The "Success" of Chinese Americans Is Structural / The Success of Asian Americans Has Been Exaggerated, in Part, to Criticize Other Minority Groups / 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 -- Challenges for the Present and the Future -- About the Public Sociology Assignments -- Public Sociology Assignments / Social Justice andDisaster Preparedness Planning -- Global Genocide Awareness and Education -- New Americans, Assimilation, and Old Challenges -- Current Immigration -- Recent Non-Hispanic Immigration From the Caribbean -- Middle Eastern andArab Americans -- The Arab American Community in Detroit, Michigan / 9/11 andMiddle Eastern Americans -- Middle Eastern Americans andthe American Dream / 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 / Immigration Is Essential / Debate Questions to Consider -- Main Points -- Study Site on the Web -- For Further Reading -- Questions for Review andStudy -- Internet Research Project -- 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 -- The Obama Presidency: Can Barack Obama Deliver the Change He Promises? -- Women's Rights: Are Violence andDiscrimination Against Women Declining? -- American indians: Are They Making Meaningful Progress at Last? Marcus Griffin -- Surveillance -- Bell Hooks -- Ian F. Haney Lopez -- Mary Crow Dog -- John Lame Deer -- Andrea Woo -- Cornel Pewewardy -- Rose Del Castillo Guilbault -- Judith Ortiz Cofer -- John Fonte -- Joseph Kurihara -- Harry Kitano -- Min Zhou -- Ronald Takaki -- Marcus Griffin -- Steve Gold -- Karyn McKinney -- Steven A. Camarota -- Anna Quindlen -- PART 3. Assignment 1. Assignment 2. 6. Narrative Portrait 1. 7. Narrative Portrait 1. Narrative Portrait 2. 8. Narrative Portrait 1. Narrative Portrait 2. 9. Photo Essay 1. Narrative Portrait 1. PART 4. Assignment 1. Assignment 2. 10. Photo Essay 1. Narrative Portrait 1. 11. Appendix B. Appendix C. Appendix D.
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2010021206
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015665902 Uk
Minorities--United States.
Ethnicity--United States.
Racism--United States.
Group identity--United States.
Social conflict--United States.
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Race, ethnicity, gender, and class : the sociology of group conflict and change / Joseph F. Healey. - 5th ed., 2010/2011 update. - Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Pine Forge Press, �2011. - xxxix, 514, [169] pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 26 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
An Introduction to the Study of Minority Groups in the United States -- What Is Public Sociology? -- Public Sociology Assignments / Revealing Diversity in the United States in Your Local School -- Diversity in a Soup Kitchen -- Local Hate Groups -- Cultural Brokerage and Arab Americans -- 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 -- Racial Identity and the Sociological Imagination -- White Like Me Black Me / 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 / The Argument for Genetic Differences Is Deeply Flawed / Debate Questions to Consider -- Main Points -- Study Site on the Web -- For Further Reading -- Questions for Review and Study -- Internet Research Project -- 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 -- Ethnicity, Prejudice, and the Irish Political Machine -- Shadow of the Past / 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 -- Assimilation, Then and Now -- Choosing a Dream: Italians in Hell's Kitchen / Always Running: La Vida Loca / Comparative Focus: Immigration, Emigration, and Ireland -- Current Debates: English Only? -- English Only Will Speed the Assimilation of Immigrants / The English-Only Movement Is Racist / Debate Questions to Consider -- Main Points -- Study Site on the Web -- For Further Reading -- Questions for Review and Study -- Internet Research Project -- 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 -- The Cultural Sources of Prejudice -- The Crazy Ladies of Pearl Street / 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 -- The Dynamics of Racial Hatred -- The Making (and Unmaking) of a Klansman / 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 / Debate Questions to Consider -- Main Points -- Study Site on the Web -- For Further Reading -- Questions for Review and Study -- Internet Research Project -- 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 -- Employment and Achieving the American Dream -- Finnic Self-Segregation in College -- 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 -- A Slave's Life -- Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb / Life as a Slave Girl / 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 / African American Culture Was Created by an interplay of Elements From Africa andAmerica / The Experiences of Female Slaves Have Been Under-researched and Under-reported / Debate Questions to Consider -- Main Points -- Study Site on the Web -- For Further Reading -- Questions for Review and Study -- Internet Research Project -- 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 -- The Kitchenette -- Death on the City Pavement / 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 / Reparations Are an Idea Whose Time Has Come / 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. Marcus Griffin -- Deirdre Royster -- Jon Entine -- Kenan Malik -- David Gray -- Mario Puzo -- Luis Rodriguez -- Mauro Mujica -- Andrew Hartman -- Trevanian -- C.P. Ellis -- Glade Whitney -- Henry Bibb -- Harriet Jacobs -- Stanley Elkins -- William D. Piersen -- Deborah Gray White -- Richard Wright -- Eileen O'Brien -- Manning Marable -- PART 1. Assignment 1. Assignment 2. Assignment 3. Assignment 4. 1. Narrative Portrait 1. Photo Essay 1. 2. Narrative Portrait 1. Narrative Portrait 2. 3. Narrative Portrait 1. Narrative Portrait 2. PART 2. Assignment 1. Assignment 2. 4. Narrative Portrait 1. 5. Narrative Portrait 1. Understanding Dominant-Minority Relations in the United States Today -- About the Public Sociology Assignments -- Public Sociology Assignments / American Indian Cultural Affiliation -- Race and Class / 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 -- Growing Up Black and Female in the Jim Crow South -- Bone Black / 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 / Debate Questions to Consider -- Main Points -- Study Site on the Web -- For Further Reading -- Questions for Review and Study -- Internet Research Project -- 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 -- Civilize Them With a Stick -- Lakota Woman / 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 -- An Indian View of White Civilization -- Listening to the Air / 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 / Mascots Are Offensive / Debate Questions to Consider -- Main Points -- Study Site on the Web -- For Further Reading -- Questions for Review and Study -- Internet Research Project -- Hispanic Americans: Colonization, Immigration, and Ethnic Enclaves -- Mexican Americans -- Cultural Patterns -- Immigration -- The Meaning of Macho -- Americanization Is Tough on "Macho" / 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 -- Gender Images of Latinas -- The Island Travels With You / 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 / 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 -- Asian Americans: "Model Minorities"? -- Origins and Cultures -- Contact Situations and the Development of the Chinese American and Japanese American Communities -- Chinese Americans -- Japanese Americans -- Prejudice and Discrimination Against Japanese Americans -- The Relocation -- We Were Just Japs / 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 / The "Success" of Chinese Americans Is Structural / The Success of Asian Americans Has Been Exaggerated, in Part, to Criticize Other Minority Groups / 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 -- Challenges for the Present and the Future -- About the Public Sociology Assignments -- Public Sociology Assignments / Social Justice andDisaster Preparedness Planning -- Global Genocide Awareness and Education -- New Americans, Assimilation, and Old Challenges -- Current Immigration -- Recent Non-Hispanic Immigration From the Caribbean -- Middle Eastern andArab Americans -- The Arab American Community in Detroit, Michigan / 9/11 andMiddle Eastern Americans -- Middle Eastern Americans andthe American Dream / 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 / Immigration Is Essential / Debate Questions to Consider -- Main Points -- Study Site on the Web -- For Further Reading -- Questions for Review andStudy -- Internet Research Project -- 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 -- The Obama Presidency: Can Barack Obama Deliver the Change He Promises? -- Women's Rights: Are Violence andDiscrimination Against Women Declining? -- American indians: Are They Making Meaningful Progress at Last? Marcus Griffin -- Surveillance -- Bell Hooks -- Ian F. Haney Lopez -- Mary Crow Dog -- John Lame Deer -- Andrea Woo -- Cornel Pewewardy -- Rose Del Castillo Guilbault -- Judith Ortiz Cofer -- John Fonte -- Joseph Kurihara -- Harry Kitano -- Min Zhou -- Ronald Takaki -- Marcus Griffin -- Steve Gold -- Karyn McKinney -- Steven A. Camarota -- Anna Quindlen -- PART 3. Assignment 1. Assignment 2. 6. Narrative Portrait 1. 7. Narrative Portrait 1. Narrative Portrait 2. 8. Narrative Portrait 1. Narrative Portrait 2. 9. Photo Essay 1. Narrative Portrait 1. PART 4. Assignment 1. Assignment 2. 10. Photo Essay 1. Narrative Portrait 1. 11. Appendix B. Appendix C. Appendix D.
9781412990585 1412990580
2010021206
GBB195607 bnb
015665902 Uk
Minorities--United States.
Ethnicity--United States.
Racism--United States.
Group identity--United States.
Social conflict--United States.
E184.A1 / H34