Vocabulary:
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Ascribed vs Achieved status
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De facto vs de jure
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Ethnocentrism
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Race and racial categories
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White ethnics - France, Greece, Ireland, Italy,
Poland
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Institutional discrimination
Stereotypes vs Prejudices vs Discrimination
Merton:
Prejudiced discriminator:
"All weather Bigot" |
Prejudiced non-discriminator:
"Timid Bigot" |
Unprejudiced discriminator:
"Reluctant Liberal" |
Unprejudiced non discriminator:
"All weather Liberal" |
Patterns of minority treatment
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Amalgamation: A+B+C= D. America the
Melting Pot?
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Assimilation: A+B+C= A. Forced or voluntary;
names, cultural practices, etc.
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Expulsion/Transfer
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Extermination/Genocide
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Cultural Pluralism: A+B+C= A+B+C. Equal
status and tolerance
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Legal Protection
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Segregation: forced, voluntary, and/or
institutional
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Subjugation
Minority Groups in the US
Hispanics
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10-14% of population
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Growth
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Language
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Diversity
African-Americans
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12% of population
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Poverty (1/3)
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Income ~1/2 that of whites
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20% of military, 25% of soldiers in the Gulf
War
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Legacy of slavery?
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Little change past 30 years: Income, Health
(infant mortality), Education, Residence
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Criminal justice: 13% of current drug users,
35% of arrests for drug use, 55% of convictions, 70% of incarcerations
Chinese
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Less than 2% of population
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Railroad
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Opium
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1882 Exclusion Act
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Change since WWII
Native Americans
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1% of population
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Genocide
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Reservations
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Diverse groups--Pan-Indian Movement
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Bleak--poverty, alcoholism, violence.
Japanese
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1% of population
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Recent arrival
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Nisei (3rd generation) and assimilation
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Internment and WWII
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Denial of rights
Indochinese:
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very recent, esp. Vietnamese
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Rejected
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Dispersed
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Asian-Americans: Model Minority
Jews:
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Anti-Semitism
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Assimilation
White Ethnics and WASP's
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