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 |
