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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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Narrative Portraits | |
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The Social Construction of Racial Identity Life on the Color Line - Excerpt from "Life on the Color Line" | |
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The Cultural Sources of Prejudice - Excerpt from "Kaffir Boy" Mark Mathabane Mark Mathabane | |
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Prejudice, Discrimination, and Racism | |
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Using Racial and Ethnic Concepts: The Critical Case of Very Young Children | |
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Experiencing Difference | |
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Current Debates: Race and Sport | |
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The Dominance of Black Athletes Is Genetic | |
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The Argument for Genetic Differences Is Deeply Flawed | |
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Questions to Consider | |
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Assimilation and Pluralism | |
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Narrative Portrait: Assimilation Then and Now | |
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Choosing a Dream: Italians in Hell's Kitchen | |
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Always Running: La Vida Loca | |
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Readings | |
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Divided Fates: Immigrant Children in a Restructured U.S. Economy | |
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"Opening" Faces: The Politics of Cosmetic Surgery and Asian American Women | |
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A Different Mirror | |
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Current Debates: Does Language Diversity Threaten National Unity? | |
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Everyone Should Learn English | |
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Language Diversity Is Not a Threat | |
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Questions to Consider | |
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Understanding the Evolution of Dominant-Minority Relations in the United States | |
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The Development of Minority-Dominant Relation in Pre-Industrial America: The Origins of Slavery | |
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Narrative Portrait: The Lives of Slaves | |
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Life as a Slave Girl | |
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Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb | |
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Slavery Unwilling to Die: The Historical Development of Systematic Racism | |
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Southern Women, Southern Households | |
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Current Debates: How Did Slavery Affect the Origins of African American Culture? | |
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Slavery Created the African American Culture | |
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African American Culture Was Created by an Interplay of Elements from Africa and America | |
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The Experiences of Female Slaves Has Been Under-Researched and Under-Reported | |
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Question to Consider | |
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Industrialization and Dominant-Minority Relations: From Slavery to Segregation and the Coming of Post-Industrial Society | |
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Narrative Portrait: The Kitchenette | |
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Death on the City Pavement | |
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The Meaning of Emancipation According to Black Women | |
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Race, Gender and Work: The History of Asian and Asian-American Women | |
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Distinguishing Five Models of Affirmative Action | |
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Current Debates: Affirmative Action | |
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Affirmative Action Casts Suspicions on Legitimate Black Achievement and Depicts African Americans as Incapable | |
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Why We Still Need Affirmative Action | |
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Affirmative Action Should Be Based on Class Rather Than Race | |
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Questions to Consider | |
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Understanding Dominant-Minority Relations in the United States Today | |
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African Americans | |
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Narrative Portrait: The Price of Success | |
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To Be Black, Gifted, and Alone | |
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I am not a racist but ': mapping White college students' racial ideology in the USA | |
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Race and Criminalization: Black Americans and the Punishment Industry | |
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The Elephant In The Living Room: The Issue Of Race In Close Black/White Friendships | |
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Current Debates: Reparations | |
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Reparations for African Americans in Historical Context | |
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Reparations are an Idea Whose Time has Come | |
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Why I Don't Want Reparations for Slavery | |
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Questions to Consider | |
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Native Americans | |
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Narrative Portrait: Native American Experience and Perspective | |
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Lakota Woman | |
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Listening to the Air | |
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Readings | |
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Trends Among American Indians in the United States | |
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Growing Up Indian | |
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Angry Women are Building: Issues and Struggles Facing American Indian Women Today | |
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Current Debates: Should Columbus Day be Celebrated? | |
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Columbus Day Should be Celebrated | |
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Why Columbus Day Celebrations and Parades Should Be Opposed | |
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The Value of Native American Culture and Indian Identity | |
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Questions to Consider | |
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Hispanic Americans | |
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Narrative Portrait: The Meaning of Macho | |
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Americanization is Tough on Macho | |
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Readings | |
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Mock Spanish: A Site For The Indexical Reproduction Of Racism In American English | |
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Seeing More than Black and White: Latinos, Racism, and the Cultural Divides | |
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Current Debates: Is Immigration Harmful or Helpful to the United States? | |
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Immigration Is Harmful | |
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Immigration Is Not Harmful | |
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We Need to Reframe the Immigration Debate | |
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Questions to Consider | |
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Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders | |
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Narrative Portrait: Two Stories of Immigration | |
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Ho Yang | |
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Vo Thi Tam | |
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Readings | |
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The 'Success' Image of Asian Americans: Its Validity, and Its Practical and Theoretical Implications | |
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The Interrelationship Between Anti-Asian Violence and Asian America | |
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Current Debate: Asian American "Success": What Are the Dimensions, Causes, and Implications for Other Minority Groups? | |
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The Success of Japanese Americans is Cultural | |
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The "Success" of Chinese Americans is Structural | |
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The Success of Asian Americans Has Been Exaggerated, In Part to Criticize Other Minority Groups | |
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Questions to Consider | |
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White Ethnic Groups | |
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Narrative Portrait | |
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Ethnicity, Prejudice, and the Irish Political Machine | |
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Readings | |
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How Jews Became White | |
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White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences Through Work in Woman's Studies | |
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Is This A White Country, Or What? | |
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Current Debates: Racial Identity: Whites and Blacks | |
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The Need to Understand Whiteness | |
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Symbolic and Involuntary Ethnicity | |
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Conclusions | |
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Antiracist Solutions | |
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The Emperor's New Clothes | |
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The Racial Preference Licensing Act | |
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The Future of Antiracisms | |
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Abolish the White Race by any means necessary | |
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Being An Ally | |
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Commitment to Combat Racism | |
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