Sociology Now, Census Update
and Whites were not discriminatory. In fact, they were necessary to cater to the different needs of the races and ensure racial ...
rich Whites, continue to live in same-race neighborhoods and attend same-race schools. Segregation continues to separate poor pe ...
ago, the eminent historian Eric Foner ruminated on his own college experience as a beneficiary of that version of affirmative ac ...
The Know-Nothing Party was formed in 1849 to promote anti-Catholic and anti-immigrant legislation. The Ku Klux Klan (KKK), forme ...
Theories of Prejudice and Discrimination Social scientists and philosophers have wondered about prejudice for centuries. Why doe ...
violent, and sexually suspect. Consequently, they often com- bine, and the effects of racism are compounded by the effects of cl ...
The same expectation effect can happen on the job, among friends, in families, and among strangers—even within the group that ha ...
Overcoming Prejudice In spite of institutional discrimination and patterns of racism and White privilege that go far beyond any ...
asked, “What ethnicity are you?” people whose families have lived in the United States for more than a few generations usually c ...
been built—most Native Americans feel such mascots are insulting and perpetuate racial stereotypes. (Table 8.3). In the 2010 Cen ...
gambling addiction or fail to provide needed services for their people. Nonetheless, many Native Americans continue to embrace t ...
■From Puerto Rico: about 3.5 million (not counting the 3.8 million in Puerto Rico itself). About a third live in New York. They ...
People from Sub-Saharan Africa In the 2010 Census, 12.4 percent of the U.S. population was identified as Black or African Americ ...
In recent years, there has been much debate about paying “reparations” to the descendants of former slaves because they worked f ...
ETHNIC GROUPS IN THE UNITED STATES 269 OBJECTIVE: Use sociology to think about the ways race and ethnic relationships are portra ...
middle class in their home country, so they find it easier to enter the middle class in the United States. They are more likely ...
following September 11 and then spiking in different countries in the aftermath of inci- dents there. Eighty percent of Muslims ...
Armenians. In the 1990s, the dominant Hutu ethnic group killed hundreds of thousands of minority Tutsi in Rwanda and Burundi, an ...
or culture will usually dominate, either by numbers or by prestige, and peo- ple will be drawn to it, even in the absence of ins ...
of us also wants to be treated as an individual, by our talents and achievements alone. We love it when race and ethnicity give ...
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