Racial and Ethnic Stratification
Races
Ethnic Groups
Minority Groups
The Potential for Conflict and Separation
Prejudice and Discrimination
Prejudice
Discrimination
Institutional Discrimination
Patterns of Intergroup Relations: Assimilation and Pluralism
Assimilation
Pluralism
Racial and Ethnic Groups in the United States
African Americans
Hispanics
Native Americans
Asian Americans
White Ethnics
Sociological Perspectives on Inequalities of Race and Ethnicity
The Functionalist Perspective
The Conflict Perspective
The Interactionist Perspective
The Future of Ethnic and Minority Group Relations
Intergroup Relations
Ethnicity
| Box 7.1 | Doing Social Research: Teasing Out Prejudiced Beliefs | | Box 7.2 | Students Doing Sociology: Institutional Discrimination | | Box 7.3 | Sociology around the World: Model Minorities-Does Class or Do Values Spell Success? |
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