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Brief | |
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Comprehensive | |
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Brief Table of Contents | |
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Understanding Race and Ethnicity | |
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Prejudice | |
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Discrimination | |
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Immigration and the United States | |
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Ethnicity and Religion | |
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The Native Americans | |
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The Making of African Americans in a White America | |
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African Americans Today | |
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Hispanic Americans | |
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Mexican Americans and Puerto Ricans | |
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Muslim and Arab Americans: Diverse Minorities | |
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Asian Americans: Growth and Diversity | |
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Chinese Americans and Japanese Americans | |
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Jewish Americans: Quest to Maintain Identity | |
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Women: the Oppressed Majority | |
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Beyond the United States: the Comparative Perspective | |
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Overcoming Exclusion | |
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Comprehensive Table of Contents | |
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Perspectives On Racial and Ethnic Groups | |
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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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Gender Groups | |
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Other Subordinate Groups | |
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Listen to Our Voices: Problem of the Color Line, by W. E. B. Du Bois | |
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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 Multiculturalism | |
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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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Listen to Our Voices: National Media Should Stop Using Obscene Words, by Tim Giago | |
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Power of Stereotypes | |
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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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Avoidance versus Friendship | |
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Research Focus: Few of My Best Friends Are | |
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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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A Global View: the Roma: A Thousand Years of 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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Listen to Our Voices: of Race and Risk, by Patricia J. Williams | |
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Research Focus:Discrimination in Job Seeking | |
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Low-Wage Labor | |
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Discrimination Today | |
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Measuring Discrimination | |
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Eliminating Discrimination | |
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Wealth Inequality: Discrimination's Legacy | |
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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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Ethnic and Religious Sources of Conflict | |
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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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A Global View: Immigration and South Africa | |
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The Economic Impact of Immigration | |
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Listen to Our Voices: the Next Americans, by Tomàs R. Jimÿnez | |
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Women and Immigration | |
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The Global Economy and Immigration | |
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Research Focus:Assimilation May Be Hazardous to Your Health | |
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Refugees | |
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Ethnicity and Religion | |
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Ethnic Diversity | |
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Why Don't We Study Whiteness? | |
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Listen to Our Voices: I Was Born in Tirana, by Harallamb Terba | |
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Whiteness | |
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White Privilege | |
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The Rediscovery of Ethnicity | |
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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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The Contemporary Picture | |
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Research Focus: Immigrants: Yesterday and Today | |
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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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Major Racial and Ethnic Minority Groups in the United States | |
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Native Americans | |
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Early European Contacts | |
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Treaties and Warfare | |
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The Case of the Sioux | |
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The Allotment Act | |
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The Reorganization Act | |
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Reservation Life and Federal Policies | |
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A Global View:Australia's Aboriginal People | |
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Native American Legal Claims | |
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The Termination Act | |
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Employment Assistance Program | |
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Collective Action | |
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Protest Efforts | |
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Collective Action: An Overview | |
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American Indian Identity | |
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Sovereignty | |
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Individual Identity | |
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Native Americans Today | |
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Listen to Our Voices: Iyeska: Notes from Mixed-Blood Country, by Charles A. Trimble | |
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Economic Development | |
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Education | |
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Research Focus:Learning the Navajo Way | |
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Health Care | |
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Religious and Spiritual Expression | |
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Environment | |
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The Making of African Americans in a White America | |
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Slavery | |
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Slave Codes | |
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African Americans and Africa | |
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The Attack on Slavery | |
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Slavery's Aftermath | |
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Reparations for Slavery | |
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The Challenge of Black Leadership | |
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The Politics of Accommodation | |
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The Niagara Movement | |
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Reemergence of Black Protest | |
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Research Focus: Sundown Towns, USA | |
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The Civil Rights Movement | |
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Struggle to Desegregate the Schools | |
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Civil Disobedience | |
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Listen to Our Voices:Letter from Birmingham Jail, by Martin Luther King, Jr | |
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Urban Violence and Oppression | |
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Black Power | |
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The Religious Force | |
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The New Immigration | |
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African Americans Today | |
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Education | |
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Quality and Quantity of Education | |
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School Segregation | |
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Acting White, Acting Black, or Neither | |
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Higher Education | |
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The Economic Picture | |
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Income and Wealth | |
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Employment | |
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Family Life | |
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Challenges to Family Stability | |
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Strengths of African American Families | |
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The African American Middle Class | |
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Listen to Our Voices: Divided, by Mary Pattillo | |
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Housing | |
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Residential Segregation | |
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Criminal Justice | |
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Research Focus: Medical APartheid | |
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Health Care | |
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Politics | |
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Hispanic Americans | |
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Latino Identity | |
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The Economic Picture | |
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The Growing Political Presence | |
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The Borderlands | |
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Research Focus:English-Language Acquisition | |
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Cuban Americans | |
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Immigration | |
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Listen to Our Voices:Leaving Cuba, by Alfredo Jimenez | |
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The Current Picture | |
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Central and South Americans | |
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Immigration | |
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The Current Picture | |
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A Global View:The Salvadoran Connection | |
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Mexican Americans and Puerto Ricans | |
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Mexican Americans | |
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The Immigrant Experience | |
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The Economic Picture | |
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Political Organizations | |
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Puerto Ricans | |
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The Bridge between the Island and the Mainland | |
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The Island of Puerto Rico | |
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Listen to Our Voices:iViva Vieques! by Martün St. Espada | |
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The Island Economy | |
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The Contemporary Picture of Mexican Americans and Puerto Ricans | |
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Education | |
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Family Life | |
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Health Care | |
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Research Focus:The Latino Family Circle: Familism | |
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Religion | |
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Muslim and Arab Americans: Diverse Minorities | |
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Arab Americans | |
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Muslim Americans | |
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Black Muslims | |
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Immigration to the United States | |
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Contemporary Life in the United States | |
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Family Life and Gender | |
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Research Focus: Christian and Muslim Arab American Women's Gender Roles | |
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Education | |
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Politics | |
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A Global View:Muslims in France | |
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Issues of Prejudice and Discrimination | |
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Listen to Our Voices: Hate Crime Punished, by James Zogby | |
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Asian Americans: Growth and Diversity | |
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The "Model-Minority" Image Explored | |
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Education and the Economy | |
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The Door Half Open | |
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Political Activity and Pan-Asian Identity | |
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Listen to Our Voices:Asian America Still Discovering Elusive Identity, by Jean Han | |
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Diversity among Asian Americans | |
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Asian Indians | |
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Immigration | |
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The Current Picture | |
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Filipino Americans | |
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Immigration Patterns | |
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Research Focus:Arranged Marriages in America | |
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The Current Picture | |
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Southeast Asian Americans | |
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The Refugees | |
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The Current Picture | |
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Case Study: A Hmong Community | |
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Korean Americans | |
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Historical Background | |
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The Current Picture | |
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Hawai'i and Its People | |
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Historical Background | |
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The Current Picture | |
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Chinese Americans and Japanese Americans | |
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Chinese Americans | |
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Early Settlement Patterns | |
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Occupational Profile of Chinese Americans | |
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Chinatowns Today | |
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Family Life | |
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Research Focus:Cultural Capital, Social Capital, and Chinatowns Today | |
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Japanese Americans | |
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Early Japanese Immigration | |
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The Wartime Evacuation | |
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The Economic Picture | |
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Family Life | |
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Remnants of Prejudice and Discrimination | |
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Listen to Our Voices: From Kawasaki to Chicago, by Miku Ishii | |
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Jewish Americans: Quest to Maintain Identity | |
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The Jewish People: Race, Religion, or Ethnic Group? | |
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A Global View: Argentina's Jewish Community | |
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Immigration of Jews to the United States | |
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Anti-Semitism: Past and Present | |
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Origins | |
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The Holocaust | |
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U.S. Anti-Semitism: Past | |
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Listen to Our Voices:Night, by Elie Wiesel | |
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Contemporary Anti-Semitism | |
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Position of Jewish Americans | |
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Employment and Income | |
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Education | |
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Political Activity | |
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Religious Life | |
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The Orthodox Tradition | |
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The Reform Tradition | |
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Jewish Identity | |
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Role of the Family | |
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Role of Religion | |
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Research Focus:Intermarriage:The Final Step to Assimilation? | |
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Role of Cultural Heritage | |
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Other Patterns of Dominance | |
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Women: the Oppressed Majority | |
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Gender Roles | |
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Sociological Perspectives | |
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The Feminist Movement | |
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The Suffrage Movement | |
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The Women's Liberation Movement | |
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The Economic Picture | |
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Sources of Discrimination | |
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Sexual Harassment | |
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Listen to Our Voices: What Do Women and Men Want? by Kathleen Gerson | |
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Feminization of Poverty | |
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Education | |
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Research Focus:Child Care and the Gender Divide | |
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Family Life | |
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Child Care and Housework | |
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Abortion | |
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Political Activity | |
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Matrix of Domination: Minority Women | |
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A Global View:Women Elected Officials: Rwanda and Beyond | |
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Beyond the United States: the Comparative Perspective | |
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Mexico: Diversity South of the Border | |
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The Mexican Indian People and the Color Gradient | |
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The Status of Women | |
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Canada: Multiculturalism Up North | |
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The First Nation | |
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The Quÿbÿcois | |
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Immigration and Race | |
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Brazil: Not a Racial Paradise | |
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Legacy of Slavery | |
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The "Racial Democracy" Illusion | |
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Brazilian Dilemma | |
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Israel and the Palestinians | |
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Arab���Israeli Conflicts | |
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The Intifada | |
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The Search for Solutions amid Violence | |
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Republic of South Africa | |
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The Legacy of Colonialism | |
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APartheid | |
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The Era of Reconciliation and Moving On | |
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Listen to Our Voices: Africa, It Is Ours! by Nelson Mandela | |
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Research Focus:Listening to the People | |
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Overcoming Exclusion | |
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The Aged: A Social Minority | |
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Who Are the Elderly? | |
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Ageism | |
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Research Focus: Passing on the Old Job Applicant | |
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The Economic Picture | |
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Advocacy Efforts by the Elderly | |
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People with Disabilities: Moving On | |
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Disability in Contemporary Society | |
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Labeling the Disabled | |
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Listen to Our Voices:The Magic Wand, by Lynn Manning | |
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Advocacy for Disability Rights | |
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Gays and Lesbians: Coming Out for Equality | |
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Being Gay and Lesbian in the United States | |
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Prejudice and Discrimination | |
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Advocacy for Gay and Lesbian Rights | |
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The Glass Half Empty | |