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| Preface | |
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| About the Author | |
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| Exploring Race and Ethnicity | |
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| What Is a Subordinate Group? | |
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| Types of Subordinate Groups | |
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| Racial Groups | |
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| Ethnic Groups | |
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| Religious Groups | |
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| Listen to Our Voices: Problem of the Color Line | |
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| Gender Groups | |
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| Other Subordinate Groups | |
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| Does Race Matter? | |
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| Biological Meaning | |
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| Social Construction of Race | |
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| Sociology and the Study of Race and Ethnicity | |
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| Stratification by Class and Gender | |
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| Theoretical Perspectives | |
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| The Creation of Subordinate-Group Status | |
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| Migration | |
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| Annexation | |
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| Colonialism | |
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| The Consequences of Subordinate-Group Status | |
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| Extermination | |
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| Expulsion | |
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| Secession | |
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| Segregation | |
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| Fusion | |
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| Assimilation | |
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| The Pluralist Perspective | |
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| Biracial and Multiracial Identity: Who Am I? | |
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| Research Focus: Measuring Multiracial Identity | |
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| Matrix of Domination: Minority Women | |
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| Resistance and Change | |
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| Prejudice | |
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| Hate Crimes | |
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| Prejudice and Discrimination | |
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| Merton's Typology | |
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| LaPiere's Study | |
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| Theories of Prejudice | |
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| Scapegoating Theory | |
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| Authoritarian Personality Theory | |
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| Exploitation Theory | |
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| Normative Approach | |
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| Stereotypes | |
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| What Are Stereotypes? | |
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| Power of Stereotypes | |
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| Listen to Our Voices: National Media Should Stop Using Obscene Words | |
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| Stereotyping in Action: Racial Profiling | |
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| Color-Blind Racism | |
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| The Mood of the Oppressed | |
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| Intergroup Hostility | |
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| Reducing Prejudice | |
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| Education | |
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| Mass Media | |
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| Research Focus: How Real Is Reality Television? | |
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| Avoidance versus Friendship | |
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| Corporate Response: Diversity Training | |
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| Ways to Fight Hate | |
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| Discrimination | |
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| Understanding Discrimination | |
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| Relative versus Absolute Deprivation | |
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| Total Discrimination | |
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| Institutional Discrimination | |
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| Low-Wage Labor | |
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| Research Focus: Discrimination in Job Seeking | |
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| Discrimination Today | |
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| Continuing Wage Gap | |
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| Eliminating Discrimination | |
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| Wealth Inequality: Discrimination's Legacy | |
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| Listen to Our Voices: Of Race and Risk | |
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| Environmental Justice | |
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| Affirmative Action | |
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| Affirmative Action Explained | |
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| The Legal Debate | |
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| Reverse Discrimination | |
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| The Glass Ceiling | |
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| Immigration | |
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| Immigration: A Global Phenomenon | |
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| Patterns of Immigration to the United States | |
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| Today's Foreign-Born Population | |
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| Early Immigration | |
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| The Anti-Chinese Movement | |
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| Restrictionist Sentiment Increases | |
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| The National Origin System | |
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| The 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act | |
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| Contemporary Social Concerns | |
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| The Brain Drain | |
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| Population Growth | |
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| Mixed-Status Families | |
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| Language Barriers | |
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| Illegal Immigration | |
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| Path to Citizenship: Naturalization | |
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| The Economic Impact of Immigration | |
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| Listen to Our Voices: The Next Americans | |
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| Women and Immigration | |
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| Research Focus: Assimilation May be Hazardous to Your Health | |
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| The Global Economy and Immigration | |
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| The Environment and Immigration | |
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| Refugees | |
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| Ethnicity and Religion | |
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| Listen to Our Voices: I was Born in Tirana | |
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| Ethnic Diversity | |
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| Why Don't We Study Whiteness? | |
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| Whiteness | |
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| White Privilege | |
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| The Rediscovery of Ethnicity | |
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| Blended Identity | |
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| The Third-Generation Principle | |
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| Symbolic Ethnicity | |
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| The German Americans | |
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| Settlement Patterns | |
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| Twentieth-Century German America | |
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| The Irish Americans | |
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| Irish Immigration | |
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| Becoming White | |
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| The Contemporary Picture | |
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| The Italian Americans | |
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| Early Immigration | |
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| Constructing Identity | |
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| Research Focus: Immigrants: Yesterday and Today | |
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| The Contemporary Picture | |
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| The Polish Americans | |
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| Early Immigration | |
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| Polonia | |
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| The Contemporary Picture | |
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| Religious Pluralism | |
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| Diversity among Roman Catholics | |
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| Diversity among Protestants | |
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| Religion and the Courts | |
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| Limits of Religious Freedom: The Amish | |
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| The Amish Way of Life | |
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| The Amish and Larger Society | |
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| The Nation as a Kaleidoscope | |
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| The Glass Half Empty | |
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| Is There a Model Minority? | |
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| Listen to Our Voices: From Kawasaki to Chicago | |
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| Acting White, Acting Black, or Neither | |
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| Persistence of Inequality | |
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| Talking Past One Another | |
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| Internet Resource Directory | |
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| Glossary | |
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| References | |
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| Photo Credits | |
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| Author Index | |
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| Subject Index | |