Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the authors -- Part 1: Introduction To The Study OF Minority Groups In The United States: -- Diversity In The United States: Questions And Concepts: -- Some American stories -- Increasing Variety Of American Minority Groups: Trends And Questions: -- Increasing diversity -- What's in a name? -- Questions about the the future, sociology, and the plan of this book -- Narrative Portrait: On being American -- What is a minority group? -- Patterns Of Inequality: -- Theoretical perspectives -- Minority-group status and stratification -- Visible Distinguishing Traits: Race And Gender: -- Race -- Gender -- Key Concepts In Dominant-Minority Relations: -- Prejudice -- Discrimination -- Ideological racism -- Institutional discrimination -- Applying Concepts -- Global perspective -- Answers To Applying Concepts: -- Immigration and globalization -- Narrative Portrait: White male reflects on privilege -- Conclusion -- Summary -- Key terms -- Review questions -- Student study site -- Assimilation And Pluralism: From Immigrants To White Ethnics: -- Assimilation: -- Type of assimilation -- Traditional perspective on assimilation: theories and concepts -- Pluralism: -- Types of pluralism -- Other group relationships -- From Immigrants To white Ethnics: -- Industrialization and immigration -- European origins and conditions of entry -- Chains of immigration -- Narrative Portrait: Entering The Promised Land: -- Campaign against immigration: prejudice, racism, and discrimination -- Patterns Of Assimilation: -- Importance of generations -- Ethnic succession -- Narrative Portrait: Ethnicity, Prejudice, And The Irish Political Machine: -- Continuing industrialization and structural mobility -- Variations In Assimilation: -- Degree of similarity -- Religion -- Social class -- Gender -- Sojourners -- Descendants Of The Immigrants Today: -- Geographical distribution -- Applying Concepts: -- Integration and equality -- Answers To Applying Concepts: -- Evolution of white ethnicity -- Twilight of white ethnicity? -- Narrative Portrait: Assimilation, then and now -- Comparative Focus: Immigration and Ireland -- Contemporary immigrants: does the traditional perspective apply? -- Implications for examining dominant-minority relations -- Summary -- Key terms -- Review questions -- Student study site -- Prejudice And Discrimination: -- Prejudice and discrimination -- Prejudice: -- Affective dimension -- Cognitive dimension: stereotypes -- Cognitive and affective dimension of stereotypes -- Intersections of race, gender, and class -- Sociological Causes Of Prejudice: -- Role of group competition -- Theoretical perspectives on group competition and prejudice: power/conflict models -- Summary and limitations -- Persistence Of Prejudice: -- Vicious cycle -- Prejudice in children -- Social distance scales: the cultural dimensions of prejudice -- Situational influences -- Applying Concepts: -- Summary and limitations -- Narrative Portrait: Cultural sources of prejudice -- Recent Trends: Traditional Prejudice And Modern Racism: -- Traditional prejudice: changing attitudes? -- Explaining The Decline Of Traditional Prejudice 1: Role of education -- Explaining The Decline Of Traditional Prejudice 2: Contact hypothesis -- Modern racism: new face of prejudice? -- Comparative Focus: Contact Hypothesis And European Prejudice: -- Limitations -- Hate crimes -- Sociology of prejudice -- Narrative Portrait: Dynamics of racial hatred -- Summary -- Key terms -- Review questions -- Student study site -- Part 2: Evolution Of Dominant-Minority Relations In The United States: -- Development Of Dominant-Minority Group Relations In Preindustrial America: The Origins Of Slavery: -- Origins Of Slavery In America: -- Labor supply problem -- Contact situation -- Creation of slavery in the United States -- Paternalistic relations -- Dimensions of minority-group status -- Narrative Portrait: Slave's life -- Creation of minority status for American Indians and Mexican Americans -- Applying Concepts: -- American Indians -- Answers To Applying Concepts: -- Mexican Americans --Comparing minority groups -- Comparative Focus: Mexico, Canada, and the United States -- Summary -- Key terms -- Review questions -- Student study site -- Industrialization And Dominant-Minority Relations: From Slavery To Segregation And The Coming Of Postindustrial Society: -- Industrialization and the shift from paternalistic to rigid competitive group relations -- Impact Of Industrialization On The Racial Stratification Of African Americans: From Slavery To segregation: -- Reconstruction -- De Jure segregation -- Origins of De Jure segregation -- Comparative Focus: Jim Crow -- Segregation And South African Apartheid: -- Great migration -- Life in the North -- Competition with white ethnic groups -- Origins of black protest -- Narrative Portrait: Kitchenette -- Dimensions Of Minority-Group Status: -- Acculturation and integration -- Gender and race -- Industrialization, The Shift To Postindustrial Society, And Dominant-Minority Group Relations: General Trends: -- Urbanization -- Occupational specialization -- Bureaucracy and rationality -- Growth of white-collar jobs and the service sector -- Growing importance of education -- Dual labor market -- Globalization -- Postindustrial society and the shift from rigid to fluid competitive relationships -- Applying Concepts: -- Modern institutional discrimination -- Answers To Applying Concepts: -- Continuing power of the past -- Affirmative action -- Social change and minority-group activism -- Summary -- Key terms -- Review questions -- Student study site -- Part 3: Understanding Dominant-Minority Relations In The United States Today: -- African Americans -- End Of De Jure Segregation: -- Wartime developments -- Civil Rights Movement -- Developments Outside The South: -- De Facto segregation -- Urban unrest -- Narrative Portrait: Growing Up Black And Female In The Jim Crow South: -- Black power movement -- Protest, Power, and Pluralism: -- Black Power Movement in perspective -- Gender and black protest -- Black-white relations since the 1960s: issues and trends -- Comparative Focus: Race In Another America: -- Continuing separation -- Criminal justice system and African Americans -- Increasing class inequality -- Modern institutional discrimination -- Family institution and the culture of poverty -- Mixed race and new racial identities -- Prejudice and discrimination -- Assimilation And Pluralism: -- Acculturation -- Secondary structural assimilation -- Applying Concepts -- Answers To Applying Concepts: -- Primary structural assimilation -- Is the glass half empty or half full? -- Summary -- Key terms -- Review questions -- Student study site --
Relations With The Federal Government After the 1890s:
Narrative Portrait: Civilize them with a stick
Contemporary American Indian-White Relations:
Comparative Focus: Australian Aborigines And American Indians:
Attracting industry to the reservation
Gaming and other development possibilities
Prejudice and discrimination
Assimilation and pluralism
Answers To Applying Concepts:
Narrative Portrait: Indian View Of White Civilization:
Secondary structural assimilation
Primary structural assimilation
Comparing minority groups
Narrative Portrait: Meaning of macho
Narrative Portrait: Immigrant's Tale:
Developments in the United States
Mexican Americans and other minority groups
Migration (push and pull) and employment transitions
Puerto Ricans and other minority groups
Immigration (push and pull)
Narrative Portrait: Gender Images Of Latinas:
Socioeconomic characteristics
Cuban Americans and other minority groups
Prejudice and discrimination
Answers To Applying Concepts:
Assimilation And Pluralism:
Comparative Focus: Immigration To Europe Versus Immigration To The United States:
Secondary structural assimilation
Primary structural assimilation
Assimilation and Hispanic Americans
Hispanic Americans And The Evolution Of The American Racial Order:
How will the racial order evolve?
Contact Situations And The Development Of The Chinese American And Japanese American Communities:
Answers To Applying Concepts:
Narrative Portrait: Growing up in Chinatown
Narrative portrait: Relocation
Comparative Focus: Japan's invisible minority
Comparing minority groups
Contemporary minority groups from Asia
Prejudice and discrimination
Assimilation And Pluralism:
Acculturation - Secondary structural assimilation
Primary structural assimilation
Comparing Minority Groups: Explaining Asian American Success:
Asian Americans and white ethnics
Asian Americans and colonized racial minority groups
New Americans, Immigration, Assimilation, And Old Challenges:
New Hispanic Groups: Immigrants From The Dominican Republic, El Salvador, And Colombia:
Non-Hispanic Immigrants From The Caribbean:
Contemporary Immigration From Asia:
Middle Eastern And Arab Americans
Narrative Portrait: Refugees:
Detroit's Arab American community
Narrative Portrait: 9/11 and Middle Eastern Americans
Immigrants and the primary labor market
Immigrants and the secondary labor market
Immigrants and ethnic enclaves
Immigration: Issues And Controversies:
Answers To Applying Concepts:
Contemporary Assimilation Segmented?:
Case for segmented assimilation
Case for traditional assimilation theory
Recent immigration in historical and global context
New immigrants and old issues
Part 4: Other Groups, Other Patterns:
History And Background Of Gender Relations:
Movements For Gender Equality:
Answers To Applying Concepts:
Women's liberation movement (second wave)
Postmodern and postindustrial movements for gender equality (third wave)
Narrative Portrait: Growing Up Transgender:
Institutional sex discrimination
Sexual harassment and assault in the military
Reproductive rights and freedoms
Sexism and discrimination
Assimilation And Pluralism:
Narrative Portrait: Privileges of maleness
Comparative Focus: Women's Status In Global Perspective:
Secondary structural assimilation
Primary structural assimilation
Conclusions and implications for dominant-minority relations
Lesbian, Gay, And Bisexual Americans:
Sexual Orientation, Sexual Identity, And Sexual Behavior:
Sexual orientation inequalities minority-group status, and identity
Visibility and identity: gender traits and sexual orientation
History and background of same-sex relationships
Narrative Portrait: Black Or Gay?:
Separate spheres: Agrarian to industrial society
From World War II and the McCarthy Era to Civil Rights
1960s and beyond: growing visibility, backlash, and HIV/AIDS
Gay Liberation Movements:
Homophile organizations (pre-stonewall)
Gay Liberation Movement (post-stonewall)
LGBT and Queer Politics (New millennium)
Role of youth and Queer Liberation
Recent Trends And Issues:
Sexual orientation in the US Military
Race, racism, and sexual orientation
Homophobia and heterosexism
Assimilation And Pluralism:
Answers To Applying Concepts:
Comparative Focus: Attitudes Toward LGBTs In Global Perspective:
Secondary structural assimilation
Narrative Portrait: Negotiating The Job Market:
Primary structural assimilation
Conclusions and implications for dominant-minority relations
Dominant-Minority Relations In Cross-National Perspective:
Brief review of major analytical themes
Snapshot of global diversity
Comparative Focus: Roma: Europe's True Minority:
Answers To Applying Concepts:
Analyzing group relations
Part 5: Challenges For The Present And The Future:
Minority Groups An US Society: Themes, Patterns, And The Future:
Revisiting some Americans
Importance of subsistence technology
Importance of the contact situation, group competition, and power
Importance of intersectionality
Assimilation and pluralism
Minority-groups progress and the ideology of American individualism
