PART I. AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF MINORITY GROUPS IN THE UNITED STATES
1. Diversity in the United States: Questions and Concepts
Narrative Portrait: The Social Construction of Racial Identity |
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Developing a Racial Identity |
Lawrence Hill |
Narrative Portrait: The Cultural Sources of Prejudice |
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Kaffir Boy |
Mark Mathabane |
Prejudice, Discrimination, and Racism |
Norman Yetman |
Using Racial and Ethnic Concepts: The Critical Case of Very Young Children |
Debra van Ausdale and Joe R. Feagin |
Constructing Categories of Difference |
Karen Rosenblum and Toni-Michelle Travis |
Current Debates: Race and Sports |
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The Dominance of Black Athletes is Genetic |
Jon Entine |
The Argument for Genetic Differences is Deeply Flawed |
Kenan Malik |
Debate Questions to Consider |
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2. Assimilation and Pluralism
Narrative Portrait: Assimilation, Then and Now |
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Choosing a Dream: Italians in Hell's Kitchen |
Mario Puzo |
Always Running: La Vida Loca |
Luiz Rodrigues |
Divided Fates |
M. Patricia Fernandez-Kelly and Richard Schauffler |
Fifteen Years on the Bottom Rung |
Anthony DePalma |
Opening Faces: The Politics of Cosmetic Surgery and Asian American Women |
Eugenia Kaw |
Current Debates: English Only? |
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English Only Will Speed the Assimilation of Immigrants |
Mauro Mujica |
Bilingualism Should Be Encouraged |
Aida Hurtado and Luis A. Vega |
Debate Questions to Consider |
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PART II. THE EVOLUTION OF DOMINANT-MINORITY RELATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES
3. The Development of Dominant-Minority Relations in Pre-Industrial America: The Origins of Slavery
Narrative Portrait: A Slave's Life |
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Life as a Slave Girl |
Harriet Jacobs |
Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb |
Henry Bibb |
Slavery Unwilling to Die |
Joe R. Feagin |
Jezebel and Mammy: The Mythology of Female Slavery |
Deborah Gray White |
Current Debates: How Did Slavery Affect the Origins of African American Culture? |
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Slavery Created African American Culture |
Stanley Elkins |
African American Culture Was Created by an Interplay of Elements From Africa and America |
William D. Piersen |
Debate Questions to Consider |
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4. Industrialization and Dominant-Minority Relations: From Slavery to Segregation and the Coming of Post-Industrial Society
Narrative Portrait: The Kitchenette |
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Death on the City Pavement |
Richard Wright |
The Meaning of Emancipation According to Black Women |
Angela Davis |
What is Affirmative Action? |
Fred L. Pincus |
Adolescent Masculinity, Homophobia, and Violence: Random School Shootings, 1982-2001 |
Michael Kimmel and Matthew Mahler |
Current Debates: Affirmative Action |
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Affirmative Action Casts Suspicions on Legitimate Black Achievement and Depicts African Americans as Incapable |
Thomas Sowell |
Why We Still Need Affirmative Action |
Orlando Patterson |
Debate Questions to Consider |
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PART III. UNDERSTANDING DOMINANT -MINORITY RELATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES TODAY
5. African Americans
Narrative Portrait: The Persistence of Racism |
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Just Walk on By: A Black Man Ponders His Ability To Alter Public Space |
Brent Staples |
The Mulatto Millennium |
Danzy Senna |
I Am Not a Racist But... |
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva and Tyrone A. Forman |
Race and Criminalization: Black Americans and the Punishment Industry |
Angela Davis |
The Elephant in the Living Room: The Issue of Race in Close Black/White Friendships |
Kathleen Odell Korgen |
Current Debates: Reparations |
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Reparations for African Americans in Historical Context |
Joe R. Feagin and Eileen O'Brien |
Reparations Are an Idea Whose Time Has Come |
Manning Marable |
Blood Money: Why I Don't Want Reparations for Slavery |
John McWhorter |
Debate Questions to Consider |
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6. Native Americans
Narrative Portrait: Native Americans' Experiences and Perspectives |
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Lakota Woman |
Mary Crow Dog |
Talking to the Owls and Butterflies |
John Lame Deer |
Growing Up Indian |
Leonard Peltier |
From the Ground Up |
Charon Astoyer |
Current Debates: Are Indian Sports Team Mascots Offensive? |
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Indian Symbols and Mascots Are Not Offensive |
S.L. Price and Andrea Woo |
Mascots Are Offensive |
C. Richard King, Ellen J. Staurowsky, Lawrence Baca, R. Davis, and Cornel Pewewardy |
Debate Questions to Consider |
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7. Hispanic Americans
Narrative Portrait: The Meaning of Macho |
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Americanization is Tough on Macho |
Rose Del Castillo Guilbault |
Narrative Portrait: Gender Images of Latinas |
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The Island Travels With You |
Judith Ortiz Cofer |
Mock Spanish: A Site for the Indexical Reproduction of Racism in American English |
Jane H. Hill |
Seeing More Than Black and White: Latinos, Racsim, and the Cultural Divide |
Elizabeth Martinez |
Not White or Black, but In Between: Latinos and Asian Americans Expanding the Language of Colorblind Racism |
Eileen O'Brien |
Current Debates: Is Americanization Threatened by" Hispanization"? |
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How to Make an American |
John Fonte |
Why We Shouldn't Worry About the "Hispanization" of the United States |
Francis Fukuyama |
Debate Questions to Consider |
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8. Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
Narrative Portrait: The Relocation |
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We Were Just Japs |
Joseph Kurihara |
The Interrelationship Between Anti-Asian Violence and Asian America |
Victor M. Hwang |
South Korean Sex Slaves in the United States and Canada |
Salim Jiwa |
Current Debates: 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 |
Harry Kitano |
The "Success" of Chinese Americans Is Structural |
Alejandro Portes and Min Zhou |
The Success of Asian Americans Has Been Exaggerated in Part to Criticize Other Minority Groups |
Ronald Takaki |
Debate Questions to Consider |
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9. New Americans: Immigration and Assimilation
Narrative Portrait: Two Stories of Immigration |
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Life in the Enclave |
Ho Yang |
Life as a Refugee |
Vo Thi Tam |
Immigrants in American Society |
Philip Martin and Elizabeth Midgely |
Discrimination and the American Dream: The Case of Middle Eastern Americans |
Amir Marvasti and Karyn D. McKinney |
Globalization and Its Mal(e)contents: The Gendered Moral and Political Economy of Terrorism |
Michael S. Kimmel |
Current Debates: Is Immigration Harmful or Helpful to the United States? |
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Immigration Is Harmful |
Peter Brimelow |
Immigration Is Not Harmful |
Reynolds Farley |
We Need to Reframe the Immigration Debate |
George Borjas |
Debate Questions to Consider |
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10. White Ethnic Groups
Narrative Portrait: Ethnicity, Prejudice, and the Irish Political Machine |
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Shadow of the Past |
David Gray |
How Jews Became White |
Karen Brodkin |
White Privilege and Male Privilege |
Peggy McIntosh |
Euphemized Racism: Moral qua Racial Boundaries |
Michele Lamont |
Current Debates: The Racial Identities of Whites and Blacks |
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The Need to Understand Whiteness |
Richard Dyer |
Symbolic and Involuntary Ethnicity |
Mary Waters |
Debate Questions to Consider |
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PART IV. CONCLUSIONS
11. Antiracist and Feminist Solutions
The Emperor's New Clothes |
Patricia Williams |
The Racial Preference Licensing Act |
Derrick Bell |
The Redefinition and Subversion of Comparable Worth in New York State: "We Did It Our Way" |
Ronnie Steinberg and Jennifer Hickman |
Building Connections with Antiracism and Feminism |
Eileen O'Brien and Michael P. Armato |
Abolish the White Race by Any Means Necessary |
Noel Ignatiev and John Garvey |
Commitment to Combat Racism |
Judith Katz |
Tools for White Guys Who Are Working for Social Change |
Chris Crass |