Race and Ethnic Conflict: Contending Views on Prejudice, Discrimination, and Ethnoviolence

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Credits xi
• Introduction 1
• Part 1 Perspectives in Race and Ethnic Relations 9
• 1: The Study of Race and Ethnic Relations 11
• 2: Classifying People by Race 14
• Notes 21
• References 22
• 3: White Racial Formation into the Twenty-First Century 24
• 4: Talking Past Each Other - Black and White Languages of Race 30
• 5: Theoretical Perspectives in Race and Ethnic Relations 41
• Part 2 Prejudice 61
• References 64
• 6: The Changing Nature of Prejudice 65
• 7: Racism and Traditional American Values 77
• Notes 87
• Part 3 Discrimination, Economic Restructuring, and Underclass Culture 89
• References 95
• 8: How Cultural Values Shape Economic Success 97
• 9: Societal Changes and Vulnerable Neighborhoods 110
• 10: From Individual to Structural Discrimination 120
• 11: America's Apartheid and the Urban Underclass 125
• 12: Measuring Employment Discrimination Through Controlled Experiments 140
• 13: "We'D Love to Hire Them, but . . ." - The Meaning of Race for Employers 152
• Conclusion 159
• Notes 160
• References 160
• 14: Hiring Immigrant Women Silicon Valley's "Simple Formula" 162
• Conclusion 176
• Notes 177
• References 178
• 15: Latinos and Discrimination 180
• Conclusion 192
• References 193
• 16: Major Issues Relating to Asian American Experiences 195
• 17: The Case for Affirmative Action 205
• Notes 219
• References 219
• Part 4 Immigration 223
• References 228
• 18: America's Immigration "Problem" 229
• 19 - Models of Pluralism the New American Dilemma 239
• Conclusion 245
• Notes 246
• 20: Alien Nation 247
• 21: Five Myths About Immigration 257
• 22: Lingo Jingo - English-Only and the New Nativism 260
• Part 5 Education 271
• Notes 275
• References 276
• 23: Campus Ethnoviolence 277
• Notes 289
• References 289
• 24: "New Racism" and Old Dogmatism 291
• 25: Multiculturalism Battleground or Meeting Ground? 305
• Part 6 Selected Topics 317
• 26: Reporting Ethnoviolence - Newspaper Treatment of Race and Ethnic Conflict 319
• 27: Ebonics, Language, and Power 331
• 28: The White Supremacist Movement in the United States Today 346
• Conclusion 353
• References 354
• Part 7 Electoral Politics or Direct Action? 355
• 29: Politics 359
• 30: Representative Government - The Black Experience 389
• 31: Black Conservatives 391
• 32: Power Concedes Nothing Without a Demand - Building Multiracial Organizations with Direct Action 409
• 33: Privileged Polemics - White Antiracist Activists 411
• Conclusion 423
• References 424
• Part 8 Toward Change 427
• 34: Rethinking Racism 429
• Notes 434
• 35: It Was All of Us Working Together - Resolving Racial and Ethnic Tension on College Campuses 444
• 36: Changing the Whole System 446
• Conclusion 458
• References 459
• Statistical Appendix 461
• About the Editors and Contributors 465

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