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| Preface | |
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| An Introduction To The Study Of Minority Groups In The United States | |
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| Diversity in the United States: Questions and Concepts | |
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| The Diversity of Minority Group Experiences | |
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| What Is a Minority Group? | |
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| The Pattern of Inequality | |
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| The Visibility Factor | |
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| Key Concepts in Dominant-Minority Relations | |
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| Main Points | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| Assimilation and Pluralism | |
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| Assimilation | |
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| Pluralism | |
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| Segmented Assimilation and Contemporary Immigrants | |
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| Other Group Goals | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Main Points | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| Understanding Prejudice And Discrimination | |
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| Prejudice | |
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| Prejudice versus Discrimination | |
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| Cognitive Aspects of Prejudice: Stereotypes | |
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| Theories of Prejudice | |
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| Types of Prejudice | |
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| Main Points | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| Prejudice in the 1990s: Is It Declining? | |
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| The Decline of Prejudice | |
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| Reducing Prejudice and Discrimination | |
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| Modern Racism | |
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| A Resurgence of Prejudice? | |
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| Main Points | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| Understanding The Past | |
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| Minority Groups in Preindusdtrial America: African Americans, Native Americans, and Mexican Americans | |
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| The Origins of Slavery in America | |
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| The Creation of Minority Status for Native Americans | |
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| The Creation of Minority Status for Mexican Americans | |
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| Conclusions: Comparing Minority Groups | |
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| Main Points | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| Industrialization and Dominant-Minority Relations | |
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| Industrialization and the Shift from Paternalistic to Rigid Competitive Group Relations | |
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| Immigrant Minority Groups | |
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| African Americans: From Slavery to Segregation | |
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| Late Industrialization and Minority Groups | |
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| The Shift from Rigid to Fluid Competitive Relationships | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Main Points | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| Understanding The Present | |
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| African Americans: From Segregation to Modern Institional Discrimination and Racism | |
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| The End of De Jure Segregation | |
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| Developments Outside the South | |
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| Protest, Power, and Pluralism | |
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| Black-White Relations Since the 1960s | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Main Points | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| Native Americans: From Conquest to Tribal Survival in Industrial Society | |
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| Native American Cultures | |
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| Comparing Minority Groups | |
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| Developments After the 1890s | |
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| Protest and Resistance | |
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| Continuing Competition: The Modern Battle for Resources and the Struggle for Development | |
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| Native American-White Relations Since the 1960s | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Main Points | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| Hispanic Americans: Colonization, Immigration, and Ethnic Enclaves | |
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| Mexican Americans: Developments During the 20th Century | |
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| Puerto Ricans | |
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| Cuban Americans | |
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| Recent Immigration from Latin America and the Caribbean | |
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| Hispanic-White Relations in the 1990s | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Main Points | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| Asian Americans: Modes of Incorporation | |
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| Asian Origins | |
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| Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders | |
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| Chinese Americans | |
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| Japanese Americans | |
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| Immigration from Asia Since 1965 | |
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| Contemporary Asian American-White Relations | |
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| Comparing Minority Groups | |
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| Main Points | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| European Americans: Assimilation and the Persistence of Ethnicity | |
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| European Origins | |
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| Initial Conditions of Entry | |
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| Developments Since 1900: Mobility and Integation | |
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| Main Points | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| A Global View, A Summary, Some Conclusions, And A Look At The Future | |
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| Minority-Dominant Relations in Cross-National Perspective | |
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| A Brief View of Major Analytical Themes | |
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| A Global Tour | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Main Points | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| Minority Groups and U.S. Society: Themes, Patterns, and the Future | |
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| Six Americans Revisited | |
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| The Importance of Subsistence Technology | |
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| The Importance of the Contact Situation, Group Competition, and Power | |
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| Diversity Within Minority Groups | |
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| Assimilation and Pluralism | |
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| Minority Group Progress and the Ideology of American Individualism | |
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| A Final Word | |
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| Appendix: Internet Resources | |
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| References | |
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| Glossary/Index | |