Author: Francis James BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 910
Book Description
Our Racial and National Minorities
Author: Francis James BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 910
Book Description
One America
Author: Francis James BrownPublisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
Identifies America's minority peoples, investigates their status and activities, and explores trends towards homogeneity in America.
One America
Author: Francis Jacob BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aliens
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
One America, the History, Contributions, and Present Problems of Our Racial and National Minorities
Author: Francis James BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aliens
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
Racial and Cultural Minorities
Author: George Eaton SimpsonPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1489905510
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
We need scarcely note that the topic of this book is the stuff of headlines. Around the world, political, economic, educational, military, religious, and social relations of every variety have a racial or ethnic component. One cannot begin to understand the history or contemporary situation of the United States, the Soviet Union, China, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Great Britain, Lebanon, Mexico, Canada-indeed, almost any land-without careful attention to the influence of cultural and racial divisions. Preparation of this new edition has brought a strong sense of deja vu, with regard both to the persistence of old patterns of discrimination, even if in new guises, and also to the persistence of limited and constraining explanations. We have also found, however, rich new empirical studies, new theoretical perspectives, and greatly expanded activity and analyses from members of minority groups. Although this edition is an extensive revision, with reference both to the data used and the theoretical approaches examined, we have not shifted from our basically analytical perspective. We strongly support efforts to reduce discrimination and prejudice; but these can be successful only if we try to understand where we are and what forces are creating the existing situation. We hope to reduce the tendency to use declarations and condem nations of other persons' actions as substitutes for an investigation of their causes and consequences.
Majority-minority Relations
Author: John E. FarleyPublisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
This book is designed to develop readers' understanding of the principles and processes that shape the patterns of relations between racial, ethnic, and other groups in society. A wide variety of information is provided about a number of such groups with an emphasis on the relationships between dominant (majority) and subordinate (minority) racial and ethnic groups in the United States and abroad. Coverage includes discussions on the latest African-American perspectives; the Census Bureau's decision to allow people to check more than one race in the 2000 census; the influence of the culture-of-poverty perspective on welfare reform legislation; interracial relationships; Neil Foley's award-winning book The White Scourge ; the debate over Hemstein and Murray's The Bell Curve ; how diversity programs helped an insurance company become more profitab the rising debate over race/ethnicity and langua race/ethnicity in our schools; race/ethnicity onli affirmative action; welfare reform; wage and labor laws, minorities, and the growing income gap; the war on drugs; and more. For those interest in majority-minority relations or race and ethnic relations.
Racial and Ethnic Groups
Author: Richard T. SchaeferPublisher: Pearson Educacion
ISBN: 9780205724963
Category : Minorities
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Grounded in a socio-historical perspective with engaging stories and first person accounts. Racial and ethnic relations in the United States are at a dynamic and exciting time. Major events are shaping our society, such as population and immigration changes, the election of the first African-American president, and increasing diversity throughout our society. Racial and Ethnic Groups, 12th edition helps students understand the changing dynamics of the U.S. population. By using a socio-historical perspective, the author frames issues by examining our history, exploring the current situation, and discussing the concerns for the future. Filled with first person accounts, such as Listen to Our Voices, brief story chapter openers, and Student Voices questions, Schaefer's Racial and Ethnic Groups actively engages students in the study of racial and ethnic relations. Major changes include the introduction of Global View boxes, and new discussions of high-interest topics, such as African immigration and color-blind racism.
Race Against the Court
Author: Girardeau A. SpannPublisher:
ISBN: 9780814788998
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
"Must reading for anyone who seeks a better understanding of the U.S. Supreme Court's role in race relations policy."-Choice "Beware! Those committed to the Supreme Court as the ultimate defender of minority rights should not read Race Against the Court. Through a systematic peeling away of antimajoritarian myth, Spann reveals why the measure of relief the Court grants victims of racial injustice is determined less by the character of harm suffered by blacks than the degree of disadvantage the relief sought will impose on whites. A truly pathbreaking work."-Derrick Bell As persuasive as it is bold. Race Against The Court stands as a necessary warning to a generation of progressives who have come to depend on the Supreme Court of the perils of such dependency. It joins with Bruce Ackerman's We, the People and John Brigham's Cult of the Court as the best in contemporary work on the Supreme Court.-Austin Sarat, William Nelson,Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College The controversies surrounding the nominations, confirmations, and rejections of recent Supreme Court justices, and the increasingly conservative nature of the Court, have focused attention on the Supreme Court as never before. Although the Supreme Court is commonly understood to be the guardian of minority rights against the tyranny of the majority, Race Against The Court argues that the Court has never successfully performed this function. Rather the actual function of the Court has been to perpetuate the subordination of racial minorities by operating as an undetected agent of majoritarian preferences in the political preferences. In this provocative, controversial, and timely work, Girardeau Spann illustrates how the selection process for Supreme Court justices ensures that they will share the political preferences of the elite majority that runs the nation. Customary safeguards that are designed to protect the judicial process from majoritarian predispositions, Spann contends, cannot successfully insulate judicial decisionmaking from the pervasive societal pressures that exist to discount racial minority interests. The case most often cited as the icon of Court sensitivity to minority rights, Brown v. Board of Education, has more recently served to lull minorities into believing that efforts at political self-determination are futile, fostering a seductive dependence and overreliance on the Court as the caretaker of minority rights. Race Against The Court demonstrates how the Court has centralized the law of affirmative action in a way that stymies minority efforts for meaningful political and economic gain and how it has legitimated the legal status quo in a way that causes minorities never even to question the inevitability of their subordinate social status. Spann contends that racial minorities would be better off seeking to advance their interests in the pluralist political process and proposes a novel strategy for minorities to pursue in order to extricate themselves from the seemingly inescapable grasp of Supreme Court protection. Certain to generate lively, heated debate, Race Against The Court exposes the veiled majoritarianism of the Supreme Court and the dangers of allowing the Court to formulate our national racial policy.
The Minority Report
Author: Anthony Gary DworkinPublisher: Holt McDougal
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Combining text and readings in a single book, this volume (a joint venture by the authors and the Minority Fellowship Program (MFP) of the American Sociological Association) includes a comprehensive theory section and a wide variety of applications of the theory to the experiences of different groups.
Minorities in Our Society
Author: Leonard Bertram IrwinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Minorities
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Surveys the roots of the discrimination practised in the United States against racial, ethnic, national, religious, and political minorities.