The Future of Ethnicity in America |  |
Learning ObjectivesAfter reading Chapter 10, students should be able to:
| 1. Understand the implications of changing immigration patterns, coupled with differential birth rates among immigrants, for the future of ethnic relations and social justice in America. |
| 2. Determine what the future fault lines will be for ethnic tensions and conflict in American society and what forces are likely to escalate the intensity of ethnic conflict. |
| 3. Understand the controversy and debates over diversity and citizenship. |
| 4. Understand how the dramatic rise in the percentage of the Latino population may fuel considerable ethnic tension and conflict. |
| 5. Understand that as Asian Americans increase their presence in middleman-minority and professional positions, conflict is likely to result between them and white Americans, Latinos, and African Americans. |
| 6. Understand the controversy over affirmative action and other policies that have attempted to redistribute resource shares in American society. |
| 7. Generate alternative, just ways of distributing resource shares that would mitigate the kinds of conflict that could rend society apart. |
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2007 McGraw-Hill Higher Education